Talk:The Remains of the Day

message: Thelucius recently added the a "themes and analysis" section, which you can view in the history and which I took out. Most of it seems like analysis, which doesn't belong in the article.
--140.247.177.30 04:59, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent changes 

message: "The novel was Ishiguro's first not to be based in Japan (although his first novel, A Pale View of Hills, was told from the point of view of an elderly woman living in Britain recalling back to when she lived in Japan) and also his first not to be told from the point of view of a Japanese person" 
Ummm, isn't there a little paradox in that sentence? --84.129.201.45 17:39, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ya, I may have started rambling. I'll fix that up.... Bsd987 14:16, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
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message: Is the cleanup tag still necessary and if so why?Zigzig20s 03:17, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  cleanup 

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message: The plot summary contains a great analysis of the novel - but falls short of summarising the plot. I suggest that the majority of this section would be better placed elsewhere - as it does not seem to constitute a plot summary. Furthermore, some of the key elements of the plot have been ignored, especially the political and non-romantic elements.
MadBean 21:32, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot Summary 

message: The plot summary says nothing about the political side of the novel (i.e. the German diplomats).  Since the commentary keeps referring to it, this ought to be included in the plot.
Calling the lord "pro-Hitler" is rather extreme.  The real reason he helps the Germans is that he is gullible and naive, which in turn is due to the fact that his sheltered way of life isolates him from reality.  
Something might be said about the "unreliable narrator" device.  Stephens in the 1950s admits that sacking the Jewish employees was wrong, but was the employer's "regret" real or part of Stephens' imagination?
CharlesTheBold (talk) 01:05, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Summary too limited 

message: Sorry to be OT, but I've just spent half the day looking for another Hopkins(?) film about duty/society/repression causing unfulfilled love over decades of time. All dead ends.  When I saw this movie on TV last night I thought this film was that one, - until the different ending.  Can anybody please help me find that movie?  
It was more poignant because there was zero doubt that Hopkins too was in love.  It was a burning love.  Yet the lovers remained equally distant, silent, unfulfilled.  In that film, (as my faulty memory serves;) at the end the now elderly Hopkins(?) (with his adult son?) travels with high hopes for resolution with his long lost love. But in the end he cannot force himself to actually talk with her again, —he just stands in the street sadly —thoughtfully— looking up at her window, tragedy complete.  End. <Br>--68.127.84.6 (talk) 22:24, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: That wasn't Hopkins, I think - it was Daniel Day-Lewis in The Age of Innocence; (I freakin' cried).  96.37.252.235 (talk) 01:54, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The main actresses were, Winona Ryder and Michelle Pfeiffer. 2A02:C7E:262F:AD00:6C15:333C:F3F2:C3CE (talk) 18:15, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm Seeking a similar film? 

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message: A lot of the themes section is pretty subjective and is almost written as a personal reflection on the book. Worse, it completely misses the chief point of the book, which is to illustrate how human beings willfully submit to unequal social systems that damage their own interests (an identical theme to Never Let Me Go). I think this section isn't really encyclopedic at the best of times (given the absence of sources) but if it does merit inclusion it should at a minimum tally with how the book has been analysed by literary critics.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.239.52.7 (talk) 16:35, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Themes Section