But:
1. The part of the city is immediately inferior to the countryside. The London is too flat, clean and empty, like a scene.
2. The part related to Japan is in a mess, and what I'm talking about is not just the super fake and super wrong setting, but the whole paragraph is very bad, from the plot to the "meaning" are all contrived, and I don't know why I want to get involved.
3. I don't like the cheap quick interpretation of "loneliness" (Holmes and others) in the film.
4. I seriously dislike the last letter written by Holmes! A certain kind of remorse in the twilight years of life is not the same as ignorance and weakness, and the letter completely crossed the boundary to become the latter, making the character of Holmes... or that word, cheap. Just as his reasons for retiring and living in seclusion are shallow and old-fashioned, it is not that that kind of reason does not exist or is unreasonable, but I really have much higher expectations and requirements for the interpretation and level of this character.
So it's a pity that this movie should be better, and McKellen Arbor definitely deserves a better script. I can still take a look, but I kind of want to snorted disdain at the director (or the original author, because I haven't read the book and I'm not sure who is the main problem here).
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