![]() This is the backdrop the main story is that of the butler, Stevens, an ostensibly simple character played with unimaginable complexity, by Hopkins. This film addresses if you can believe it, the folly of avoiding War thru appeasement, and hammers home what might have been avoided if the British had called Hitler to the carpet early on, instead of playing chess with him. However in most cases, it's an incomplete and wildly immature handling of the topic. ![]() Most films as we know too well, concentrate on the futility and bottom line cost in humanity, which is to be expected since generally speaking, an artist will always present this point of view. ![]() An extremely rare example of sanity when dealing with the subject of War. ![]() The film does a wonderful parallel examination of the man's life set against the tumult of the 1930s that effectively did away with the British Empire and made him and others like him, as people curiously obsolete. Very deliberate but marvelous study of a lifetime butler in an English noble household. ![]()
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