recently watched Billy Wild’s "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970) and discovered that it was not only Guy Rich who suspected the ambiguous relationship between Sherlock Holmes and dear Watson. De directly suspected Holmes’ sexual orientation, and even let Holmes jokingly admit it in the film. Whether it was forced by the dancer’s form or the truth, at least he had thought about this issue, otherwise he would not treat the dancer. Say "You are not my dish, Watson is". This may be Huaide's ill-intentioned joke, but for such a bachelor who hates women, his way of thinking stems from this. He admitted to Watson that he had never been in love in his life, why did Holmes not need a woman? Because he is too perfect? Why does he take drugs? Where is the root of hating women? In other words, what in his life had hurt him that gave him motivation? Sherlock Holmes and Watson may be the most accurate description of the "unfounded same-sex relationship", because Conan Doyle did not reveal too many secrets in the original book.
Suspect Holmes' sexual orientation because he hates women and has never been in love in his entire life. Many experts who study Sherlock Holmes believe that his rejection of women is likely to come from his childhood and his mother's unhappiness. Of course, this kind of attribution of psychological problems to problems between childhood and parents is a typical argument of Freud, and not everyone accepts it. However, it is worth noting that his elder brother McRoft also has serious problems in communicating with people and heterosexual relations, so this psychological problem may indeed be related to the history of the two of them-that is, the childhood. Family problems. A very extreme and dramatic explanation is that Sherlock’s mother was killed by Sherlock’s father because of an affair, and the latter was not sanctioned due to various reasons. So Sherlock hated women all his life, had no affection for the police, and insisted on his own "justice" standards. And this happened many times in his later stories. In his "consultation detective" several times, he found the murderer before the police, and he played the role of a judge to conduct a "just" trial on the latter.
Childhood experiences can change a person's life, such as Mr. Hitchcock, the suspense master who also has no good feelings for the police. Could it be that when he was young, Holmes should be a rebellious and fringe young man, indifferent, withdrawn, insisting on what he has seen, a little proud and conceited, and a little bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder. At the age of 13, although the children of the nobility at the time generally had to enter public schools (the children of the nobility and the upper class, active sports schools), Holmes was not interested in rugby, the permanent sports of this kind of school, so he did not enter this kind of school. Instead, the tutor is invited to continue to impart knowledge ("The Missing Bride"). He entered university at the age of 18. Legend has it that Holmes studied at the famous Oxford or Cambridge University. At that time, he did not like group sports, but fencing and boxing, and his major was chemistry ("Gloria Scott Mystery"). It seems to agree with the view that "literary knowledge is equal to zero", and was ridiculed by Watson for this.
Holmes' childhood made him hate the opposite sex all his life. He became rebellious in his youth and didn't study literary knowledge. For a rebellious young man, would he doubt his sexual orientation? According to the current era, the possibility is very high, but for the conservative era of Britain, he can only hold it in his heart and treat it as a secret. Even if Holmes doesn't like men, at least he likes men more than women, especially men who look like Jude Law.
Some people will talk about the most important woman in Holmes's heart, Irene Adler. She gave Holmes a new understanding of women's intelligence and was one of the four who defeated Holmes. However, the novel Zhonghua Sheng has explained that this does not mean that Holmes has a feeling of love for her. But there are also experts who do not understand why Holmes’ love life is blank. He made up this love for him, and added a great acting talent to Holmes, allowing him to deceive "Dearest Watson", how many Holmes scholars control how many Sherlock Holmes scholars control? Can't help but let Miss Irene Adler and Mr. Holmes get married without any basis in facts? Some said it was during the four years when Holmes disappeared, some said it was after Sherlock Holmes retired, and some said they were not married but just lived together. There are more lengthy and infinite speculations about their two children. But the most reliable thing is Watson's denial, after all, Watson is the closest person in Holmes' life.
In addition, the fact that Holmes takes drugs seems to be more indirect to prove the fact that Holmes likes Watson. Regardless of Richie's [Detective Sherlock Holmes] Holmes eats Watson’s engagement vinegar, and ran to the boxing ring to pick big barbarians to fight this fictional plot in the movie, but Holmes’ drug addiction is indeed because of Watson’s reason. . Sherlock Holmes was introduced by his friend Stanford at St. Baromi’s Hospital at the age of 27 and met with a retired military doctor Watson. The two hurriedly met and rented room B at 221 Baker Street. They began their lifelong living together. . This reminds me of the cohabitation relationship between veteran Hollywood actor Cary Grant and actor Rudolph Scott (Randolph Scott). At the age of 34, a few months before the investigation of the "Four Signatures" case, Holmes started taking cocaine, which worries Watson. This should be the end of 1888, when Watson was engaged to Miss Morstein in the Four Signatures case. Did Holmes take drugs because of Watson's engagement? Suspected of being jealous! At the age of 35, Watson left Baker Street after marrying Miss Morstein, but still often handle cases with Holmes. In March of the same year, the Bohemia scandal was solved, and the Irene Adler in the case changed Holmes's view of underestimating women. And for the first time called Watson the author of "My Biography" ("Bohemian Scandal"). At the age of 40, in April of that year, he took up an empty house ambush. Sherlock Holmes returns from an adventure and becomes a bibliophile, revealing the truth of the case. During this time, Watson's wife passed away. In August, accept Norwood's architect case. At the request of Holmes, Watson sold the clinic in Kensington, moved back to Baker Street, and shared with Holmes. At the age of 42, under Watson's supervision, Holmes had stopped cocaine for several years. Sherlock Holmes often had his eyes sunken and his face gloomy. At the age of 43 the following year, Holmes confessed to Watson that he had never been in love. At the age of 49, Watson remarried and left Baker Street, after which Holmes basically retired.
Sherlock Holmes took drugs when Watson was engaged. After Watson's marriage, Holmes disappeared between the ages of 37 and 40 for 4 years. Later, Watson's wife died and moved back to live with Holmes. Under Watson's supervision, Holmes gave up. Suffering from drug addiction, and the sun was in a mess, he told Watson that he had never been in love, and later Watson remarried, he would retire? It can be seen that Holmes took drugs because of Watson, the most important man in life.
Holmes's way of thinking was because he hated women, so he liked to be with Watson more than women. Watson got married and he became addicted to drugs because Watson took drugs. This is not even 48 years old. In June 1902, in the case of three people with the same surname, Holmes was very concerned about Watson who was attacked and injured by the gangsters, and he showed the emotion behind the cold face, which moved Watson greatly. In September, Holmes was injured in an attack on the case of a prominent client. These behaviors were also quite abnormal for Holmes before Watson was married.
In the relationship between Holmes' sexual orientation, Watson, the petty doctor who came from the army, can bear the ordinary for a lifetime? For Watson in particular, are working, getting married, and having children the right choice? For Holmes, his "life is to strive not to waste time in mediocrity". For Watson, this "sluggish" guy, he should be guilty, otherwise he would not marry, because his marriages are very short. It seems that he has never left Holmes. Could it be Watson's marriage? It's just a blindfold, what do you want to prove?
As for whether Holmes needs Watson, and Watson himself, the following passage from "The Creeper" illustrates this relationship: "In his later years, our relationship was special. He is a person governed by habit. He There are some narrow and deep-rooted habits, and I have become one of his habits. As a habit, I am like his violin, cut tobacco, old pipes, index of old cases, and other less decent habits. Whenever he encounters a difficult case and needs a companion whom he can rely on in terms of courage, my usefulness is revealed. But besides that, I have other uses. "Special relationship, one of habits, Not so decent habits, other uses? Get it for yourself! To apply the classic line of Jack Rieke [Brokeback Mountain] to Holmes is: "Tell me how to quit you, dear Watson." Although this still does not prove that Holmes is gay, it is for this century’s greatest We can only try to interpret the friendship between the clever bachelor and his "dear Watson" than Jin Jian. We can only use Freud's theory to try to interpret it. After all, two perfect bachelors have always lived together. Exciting and fun topic. I suddenly think of Uncle Tom Ford. Maybe when a man is too perfect, he really doesn’t need a woman anymore. Uncle Ford and the gay man Richard Buckley are more in love with Jin Jian’s love life. Underneath is the cohabitation relationship of Cary Grant and Randolph Scott more like Holmes and Watson. But Grant and Scott's adultery is a fact that is obvious to all in Hollywood. If Holmes is not a fictional character, with his reputation comparable to that of a big star, he will definitely leave behind iron evidence that the adultery has been exposed.
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