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The Remains of the Day (1993)

★ 7.4 · 1,493 ratings on TMDB

Diamond in the Rough.

The Remains of the Day poster★ 7.4

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

DirectorJames Ivory
CastAnthony Hopkins, Ben Chaplin, Christopher Reeve, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, James Fox
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

The Remains of the Day keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)E12/E13 · Drama, Romance

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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