The Remains of the Day (with spoilers)

[spedbug]

No, I haven't been living under a rock but, yes, I just saw this film for the first time, last night.

I love Anthony Hopkins and I love Emma Thompson, individually,(they're both so damned versatile and subtly expressive!); a movie with them together should have been a 'must see'. I'm clueless as to how I went so long without watching this but, there you are - there's another insight into my character, dear friends. There are times when I'm undividedly clueless to the world around me - times that I'm so far down the rabbit hole of my own inner-world that even light can't escape the vacuum that are my tangled thoughts.

My first real reaction: "No! That better not be the end" (Yes, I stood up from the couch and yelled this at the television screen). But, as much as I railed against the way it ended (I'm a 'happy ending' whore, I'm afraid), I have to admit that the "forever-parting-of-ways, unrequited" ending was more fitting to the characters.

I just wanted to draw Anthony Hopkins head down to my chest and stroke his hair. Poor, repressed man with his thin comfort of having served well to last him the rest of his life. The injustice! Aaaaaagggghhh!

On an aside - I could've eaten Hugh Grant's character on toast with jam. Grrrowl!

Comments

[martip.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Hugh was yummy in that movie, but I wanted so badly to un-repress dear Sir Anthony. I'll bet I could. ;-)

[antof9.livejournal.com]

another fellow under-rock liver. Never saw it either. And I'm sure I don't want to now -- I'm a happy ending whore too! (isn't that the POINT of movies?!)

[fsr44.livejournal.com]

It's worth the whole movie just to watch the expression on Anthony Hopkins's face when Emma is trying to pry the book out of his hands. What an actor. The whole story right there in that one expression.
Oh, and don't ask Mrfsr what happens in this movie. We saw it out in LA and he was sitting next to Julia Roberts. I think he may have been too distracted to follow the plot.

[madame-urushiol.livejournal.com]

My best friend and I saw this at the Mayan theatre in Denver when it first came out (it was the only theatre showing it in the city) and their only copy burned up in the machine 3/4 of the way through! The theatre gave us vouchers, but I had to wait until it came out on video to see "the remains of the movie". I've always had a great love of both the book and the movie.