The Self-Redemption of Old Sherlock Holmes

Hunter 2022-04-21 09:02:50

After watching this movie with the feeling of watching a "suspense movie", I realized that it is a warm movie.
This is a film about the self-redemption of an old Sherlock Holmes, interspersed with several stories, who chooses self-imposed exile after failing to save the life of a lonely wife, and arrives at an old age because he cannot remember the reasons why he gave up his detective career. Japan pursues the "Iwasan pepper" that can delay aging, just to be able to write down the true ending of the case that was finally solved in his life. The story unfolds slowly. I originally thought I would see the solution of an unsolved case, but I inadvertently watched the inner transformation of the old Sherlock Holmes and the redemption of himself. After reading it, I felt a little helpless and a little sighed, but I also felt very warm.
Human nature cannot be explained by logic, and it is great to see that Sherlock Holmes can finally step down from the altar and have a little "humanity" when he is old.

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Mr. Holmes quotes

  • Roger: She wants me to be a bootblack!

    Mrs. Munro: Roger!

    Roger: She wants me to do what she does!

    Mrs. Munro: There's no shame in what I do!

    Roger: You complain enough about it! Always going on about how hard things are.

    [to Holmes]

    Roger: She can barely read!

    [Mrs. Munro storms out of the room]

    Sherlock Holmes: Go after her. Apologize for saying things that were meant to hurt. You were cruel! If you don't apologize, you will regret it.

    Roger: People always say that.

    Sherlock Holmes: Because it's true.

    Roger: Do *you* regret anything?

    Sherlock Holmes: [with feeling] So much.

  • Mrs. Munro: Your dad hated what he did for a living. Mechanic in a garage, like his dad before him. When he got called up, he said to me, "My love, I'll not spend this war "underneath the oil pan of some toff's jeep. "I'm gonna put in for the RAF." So he did. He trained. Scored high marks, got assigned to a Bristol Blenheim, Mark IV. Blown out of the sky. First time up. All his mates who worked the motor pool came home without a scratch.