Impeccable performances by Anthony Hopkins and Emma, makes this movie an absolute delight. Rightly as Stevens puts it himself - "I don't believe a man can consider himself fully content until he has done all he can to be of service to his employer." His life revolves entirely around his duty; in fact he would be what someone could rightly descrice as beyond the call of duty. Emma kindles the passion in him but nothing is beyond his duty, or is it?
For the sake of repetition, the subtlety in communicating and conveying aroused my interest. There is an old world charm; I am quite smitten by it as always.
There are moments, too many of them, sort of one after the other, which are delicately shot and delivered to perfection. Like the one where two of them sit on the bench and talk about people being excited always to have the lights switched on, in the evening. The inferences are many, and usually never explicitly mentioned. The mystery, the longing, the need, the repression, the honour, the fire...
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