For the two core themes, there are intriguing before-and-after contrasts in the film.
One is about the contradiction between emotion and logic. Sherlock Holmes said to Roger at the beginning of the film:
"Death, mourning, grief... are just platitudes. Only logic is rare and precious." ("Death, mourning, grief... they are all commonplace. Logic is rare. .")
This phrase appeared more than once and was his creed for the first half of his life.
However, later in a dispute with the little boy, Holmes admitted that the failure of the last case had led to his thirty-five years of self-imposed exile. The most embarrassing thing is that when his life was approaching the end of his life, he could no longer remember what was wrong at that time, and there were only insignificant feelings such as pain and guilt left.
Another theme of the film is loneliness. Various direct and indirect images of loneliness appear repeatedly in the film.
Like the glass harmonica that is depressing, disturbing, and depressing, like Holmes calling himself a "hobbyist", like Mycroft's Diogenes Places of conversation, such as between Holmes and Ann:
"The dead are not far from us, they are just on the other side of the wall. And we, all on this side, are..." "loneliness Yes ."
And Holmes' comment on Watson: "After all those years, John didn't know me at all."
Logic is something that he is proud of in his life, but it also makes him confined to loneliness. But in his old age, when logic dissipates along with memory and loses its usefulness, Holmes is still caught up in the useless humanity he once dismissed, hoping for company and understanding.
In fact, this before-and-after comparison is so moving that the truth of Ann's case and what led to Holmes' exile are not so important. And the conversation between Sherlock Holmes and the housekeeper on the hospital bench seems to me too blunt and superfluous.
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