Supplement: Regarding the discussion of Watson, in the comments, Douyou RockNRuo put forward great different opinions. After reading this article, you can pull down a little and continue to read Rock's statement. As for which point of view is correct, there is no need =) There is no end to the article, let us seek common ground while reserving differences and hold our own views.
Supplement 2: Regarding the letter to Japan, whether it was fabricated or remembered, directly search this page for "life fragment reproduction", this bean friend gave a very detailed explanation and supplementary information^^Thank you
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Although in this film, the protagonist Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character, digging a "real" Sherlock Holmes is originally a story derived from a story; and the film also contains several smaller stories , Can be described as layers of fiction. But the director's strength lies in the fact that the entire film is rich in layers and not messy, and each short story supports what it wants to be told from a different perspective, three-dimensional and moving. It's almost believable.
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Ann's story: Ann's story makes people feel very sad. A very sensitive and lonely woman turned to rely on music despite the continuous pain of losing her child and the hopelessness of childbirth. However, Xiang Rui Yimo's husband could not understand such emotions. Instead, he used various means to restrict them, even to the point where he invited a private detective to follow him because of his suspicion and suspicion. Ann's intelligence allowed her to get acquainted with Holmes, who was able to perceive and appreciate such emotions, and further asked two lonely people for mutual comfort. Holmes rejected Ann from a rational point of view, which led to Ann finally choosing to die. The guilt of Holmes arises from this, and the whole film also arises from this.
What impressed me most about Ann were the small details: First, after the great sadness and incomprehension, she was still washing clothes for her husband, continuing to perform daily housework, and fulfilling her responsibilities as a wife; second Yes, she poured out the poison in front of Holmes, and even left the glass bottle to the detective. This is to prevent Holmes from being psychologically and objectively responsible for her death. It is extremely kind; and she is followed by Holmes. At the time, the setting of the middle game reflected her extremely keen mind. I even suspect that Holmes’s pain was not only caused by Ann’s early death, indirectly, but perhaps in that moment of conversation, he was also attracted by such beauty.
Although Ann's final death made the story go beyond the boundaries of daily life, this kind of loneliness in marriage and family is not uncommon. Everyone yearns for their pain to be seen by those closest to them. If they don't, the family becomes bondage or even torture. If Holmes helped such a person, perhaps he would cross the moral boundary. If you cross the border, you will risk loss of social reputation, etc., and you may also be involved in emotional entanglements and lose an elegant and calm life based on complete logic. Therefore, you need a lot of kindness based on courage.
What Ann’s story asks is, do you cherish your feathers more or are willing to help others, that is, you need to face and bear your own losses?
Roger's story: If Ann's story is the occurrence and starting point of pain, Roger's story is that pain is redeemed. Roger, a little boy from a mediocre family, needs to face the pain that a single mother sees his talents, but is powerless and unwilling to let him take a path that is more satisfying for his talents. Although his mother, Mrs. Munro, loves Roger, she chooses not to understand his thoughts, and does not want him to have too much entanglement with weird people like Holmes, even if this weird individual may give this child more of the education he desperately desires. And knowledge.
The starting point of the friendship between Holmes and the little boy was the boy's talent. Then in the subsequent process, Holmes saw that when a little boy condemned his mother, the correct logic could also cause great harm to people (that is, Mr. Holmes himself said similar things); he saw Mrs. Munro because of her aptitude and The fact that family circumstances are restricted and unable to make better choices.
Finally, when Roger, who was passionate, kind and witty, almost died because he discovered the truth and wanted to protect the bees, Holmes' inner castle was finally broken. When he decided to leave his inheritance to the mother and son who were not related by blood, he was paying for the property he owned and the standard of life he followed to protect the possible future of the little boy and the relationship between the mother and the child. Relationship. I believe this is the warmest part of human nature in exchange for my own loss for the good of others.
Watson's story: Watson does not appear in the entire film. Except for the scattered clues, suggesting that Watson didn't really use writing to truthfully reflect this old friend who has been with him throughout his life. The most sentimental thing is that Holmes himself said that Watson never really understood me. When Watson moved out of Baker Street in order to get married, the table used to write the legendary career of his old partner did not move. Instead, he finally followed Holmes to the detective's own old country house. The depth of the friendship embodied in a detail is not to be embarrassing.
People who are too sensible and love logic, many use this method to build an ice wall to protect the softest part of their hearts; that is, they are silently waiting at the same time, one day there will be another person who will warm their hearts. To melt this ice wall. Accompanying but not willing to understand, respect and love but don't want to see the real partner, like a handshake through the glass, even if Holmes so cherish, but still did not generate enough temperature in his soul.
The story of the Japanese: This story is the support for Holmes's transformation line. If the matter between Roger and his son was touched by the detectives because of the people around them, then finally when the detective who loves facts started to make up a story for a stranger who had deceived him all the way to the Far East and blamed him. , We can see that his heart has completely changed. In order to maintain the spiritual support that the mother and child have lived for decades, give up their own principles. This scene reflects the softness and temperature of human nature, which makes me feel unusually warm in the cold air-conditioned room off the screen.
The last story is about Holmes himself. Because of aging, shrewd geniuses like Sherlock Holmes will faint when preparing subcutaneous injections, forget the countless names and addresses every day, and even forget the facts of the last case that triggered his retirement. We saw that although the old detective was as sharp as ever, he would fall asleep while reading and fall off the bed in order to pick up an ornament.
I don’t know if it’s because of my own pain that it is easier to look directly at the pain of others, and slowly develop compassion. But as Holmes said at the end of the film, only when a person has no regrets will he die. Let a person who only follows hard logic and facts for a lifetime, and finally understands the gentleness of the human heart when he is old. I really like the perfection arranged by the director.
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