In the story, "Ann"'s case is not complicated. Sherlock Holmes deduced all the details accurately, but he was smart and neglected the lonely heart behind "Ann"'s words and deeds: Ann longed for someone to understand the pain of losing her beloved son. , and he is the only person in her world who deserves a glimmer of hope. However, the self-righteous response of the unreasonable Holmes eventually led to the tragedy of suicide. Sherlock Holmes blamed himself for this. Choosing to retire was his punishment. Obviously, this kind of punishment was not enough for him to forgive himself. Then he chose to forget and forget the case that made him ashamed. In the end, he became lonely. The eternal "ruthless".
I think that Holmes, lost in ruthlessness, is the true image that the original author and film director aimed to portray and reveal to the reader. The story is also intended to express the horror and harm brought about by this indifference to human feelings. Sherlock Holmes is both a lonely murderer and a lonely victim. Because of his ruthlessness, he ignores and hurts the feelings of others (including his friend "Watson", his brother McKoff, and his case clients "Ann", "Umezaki", and housekeeper "Monroe"). wife), and suffered the punishment of living alone. Thinking about it carefully, both the author and the director seem to be re-examining this perfect man in our eyes from a human perspective, and criticizing his perfection in wisdom and thinking, because this perfection makes him no longer like an ordinary person, and He blindly indulged in the game of intelligence and forgot the existence of human emotions. As stated in the film: Watson didn't really understand him, and he never got married in his life (I think, Watson's marriage and divorce is an obvious contrast). The film presents this lonely tale as Holmes' final case, apparently hoping to fill in the emotional void of the legend. Indeed, it would be a pity and sadness for an idol that we have admired for generations to not understand the consciousness and ability of others from beginning to end! Thinking of this, I can't help but want to pay the reader's respect to the author and thank him for his good intentions. After all, the author made this perfect man achieve real perfection out of his love for him.
In fact, the film's criticism of "ruthless" is more than just the annoyance and regret of Sherlock Holmes himself, and its more severe criticism lies in the "ruthless" family and war.
A review of the entire film reveals that every female character in the story is lonely, including Mrs. Monroe, Ann, and the mother of her friend Umezaki - and the culprit behind this loneliness is the misfortune of the family, whose family seems to be All are incomplete, and the men in that family are difficult to integrate into the family for various reasons, or die (Mr. Monroe's husband), or leave (Umezaki's father), or can not understand (Kelmer Mr.), which led to the birth of families who lost their complete emotions, which in turn made the other half who longed for emotional dependence feel lonely and died in the loneliness of life, and their only sustenance was their own children, and "An" She is a child who has lost her mother's love. After she had two miscarriages, her lost life also came to the camera. (The mother and son who met on the train in the opening chapter are also a hint to some extent).
Thinking deeper, the direct reason for the emergence of such a broken "ruthless" family is precisely the ruthless wars, such as: Ann's father, a colonel, died in World War I, and Mrs. Monroe's husband flew in World War II. After the war, Umezaki's father stayed to serve in the King of England. Sherlock Holmes went to Hiroshima, Japan, to witness the horrors of World War II. The young woman with the disfigured left face he saw on the road was another example of the injuries suffered by the war. All of this points to the pain of the living caused by the ruthlessness of war.
It can be seen that, whether it is Sherlock Holmes, family and war, these three all point to the "ruthless", the murderer who has caused a lifetime of loneliness. I think that the purpose of the author and director carefully conceiving these three cases in different time and space is not to show the perfect logical reasoning of Sherlock Holmes once again, but to arouse readers' incomparable cherishing of human emotions, so that we can understand: get a copy The understanding of inner emotions is far more important than acquiring all worldly materials!
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