After adapting Kazuo Ishiguro's novel "The Long Day Will End" into a movie, it is still called "The Long Day Will End", and director James Ivory knows that there is no title more cut about the story that Kazuo Ishiguro will tell than the original title. The long days are coming to an end, is a pair of clumsy lovers will accompany the long days of exhaustion and not time to confess regret, but also a couple from love to stick to each other to live a long day of regret every day of mutual resentment, these two meanings alone, how can Chinese translator's handy "farewell to the sentient day" can be replaced?
Don't like such paraphrasing. Without reading the original book, I deliberately missed the movie "Farewell to the Love Days", and I find it even more incomprehensible how good actors like Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson can take on a vulgar love movie?
When I was overwhelmed by Kazuo Ishiguro's new work "The Sun and Clara", I thought about reading his works that I had missed. The first choice is "The Long Day Will End" - sure enough, Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson are not the kind of actors who are willing to downgrade for the sake of salary, and one of the screenwriters, the author of the original work, Kazuo Ishiguro, even guaranteed that "The Long Day Will End" after becoming a movie is on the same level as the novel, so we see the love between Mr. Stevenson and Miss Kent, just like Schubert's art song "I Greet You" sings, love you in the heart is difficult to open, want to be one and two wide but cannot:" O you who have been forcibly taken from me, I greet you! I kiss you! Only my thoughts can reach you. I greet you..."
Schubert's art song "I Greet You," composed from poems by the German romantic poet Lückert, appears in the middle of the film, when Stevenson's Darlington estate is undergoing negotiations that could affect the world situation: diplomats from the United States, France, Germany and other countries gather to discuss whether to agree that the Germans will be exempt from the Treaty of Versailles. When the representatives of the many countries present at the meeting earnestly reiterated the desire for peace in Germany, like the rest of the world, the representatives extended their arms of welcome to the representatives of Germany. Seeing that his expected goal was about to be achieved, the representative of Germany sang "I greet you".
In Schubert's short life, he composed more than 600 art songs, "I Greet You" is not a highly sung one, a music platform collected more than 300 Schubert art songs to make a collection, among which there is no "I Greet You" numbered D741. Is this song not beautiful enough? Listen to Schubert's song written in 1822, and we will hear Schubert, who was only 25 years old at the time, use a quiet soundtrack to make Luct's poem of love have the taste of ancient well. So, how can we accept that the German representative singing this unpopular song of the prime minister is just a random choice of the film's scorer? Especially in the song, Stevenson's father, who had been a housekeeper of the manor all his life, died suddenly, which makes us guess that the choice of "I Greet You" for the movie is actually to comfort Stevenson, who has been alone since then, and cherish the Miss Kent who is secretly in love with him beside him.
Statue of Schubert in the Vienna Park
The housekeeper Miss Kent, whom he personally recruited, had expressed warmth to Stevenson more than once in addition to her busy daily affairs.
Seeing that old Stevenson could no longer cope with the task of catering Lord Darlington and his guests, Miss Kent repeatedly intercepted the busy Stevenson and told him to change his father's job. Refusing Miss Kent's reminders several times, Stevenson felt that Miss Kent was deliberately looking for fault? But off-screen we all sensed that it was Miss Kent expressing love, that she didn't want Stevenson's job to go wrong, and she didn't want Stevenson's family to have problems.
If Miss Kent's persuasion of Stevenson to switch old Stevenson's job was just a show of housekeeper dutifulness, not a sign of love for Stevenson, then how to explain this plot?
Emma and Elsa are a pair of Jewish sisters, Lord Darlington, who has a good opinion of Germany, asked Stevenson to dismiss the Jewish sisters, and after Stevenson tried unsuccessfully to stop it, Miss Kent said harshly, if she wanted to drive away Emma and Elsa sisters, she would also leave Darlington Manor, she knew that Stevenson and Darlington Manor could not do without her... Emma and Elsa were still gone, but Miss Kent did not follow the Jewish sisters as she had previously promised, "Yes, I am a coward." I was afraid to leave, the outside world was lonely..."Oh my God, such an obvious confession, Mr. Stevenson just pretended not to hear, yes, he pretended not to understand, otherwise, when Miss Kent told him the news that she was going to be a wife, why would his body tremble involuntarily? It was only that Lord Darlington was attached to him and the profession of housekeeper bound him, and Mr. Stevenson watched Miss Kent leave the manor and leave him.
Hard-eared lovers can't guarantee looks, let alone employment. It was only when Darlington Manor changed owners that Mr. Stevenson realized that he had missed out on the most beautiful emotions on earth for an unworthy perseverance. When consciousness awakened, the action accelerated, knowing that Miss Kent was already someone else's wife, Mr. Stevenson, after borrowing an old Daimler car from the new owner of the estate, headed north to see how the former Miss Kent was now.
One of the most beautiful long shots in the movie appears. Only on the lonely country road, an old Daimler is walking lonely, and the sky is hanging with a colorful sunset. However, among the many celestial phenomena, the sunset was the most fleeting, and soon the old Daimler was driving in the dark, unfortunately, the car was still lying down because of the lack of fuel... Mr. Stevenson lamented to the well-wishers who helped him out of his predicament, he didn't know how long the old Daimler could drive with a tank of fuel, but I listened to this self-deprecation as "I didn't know that a relationship I missed would make me lose my soul for a long time." ”
Missed feelings are like the sunset in the sky, even if the beauty will eventually be wrapped in the night. Yes, Mr. Stevenson and Miss Kent met as promised, and knew that her married life was not satisfactory, but what could be done? Miss Kent had to go back and continue to be someone else's wife, and Mr. Stevenson, who was alone, had to drive the boss's old Daimler to continue to travel alone.
From now on, "Only my thoughts can reach you." I greet you..."