The film is based on a novel called A Slight Trick of the Mind, not any of the stories in Sherlock Holmes. But this film has a time-travelling connection with "Sherlock Holmes", and it is also closely related to my previous reading experience, so I personally feel very touched after watching this film.Confused? Listen to me slowly.When I read Sherlock Holmes when I was a child, I was often fascinated by the middle part of the story, because it was the most intense and exciting part. The process of uncovering the truth greatly satisfied the curiosity of young people.
At the beginning, Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson were swallowed in the room. Clouds and mists, argumentation of the past and present (and this could only be done before the helper rushed in), and at the end of the story, in front of the truth, the parties let go of their obsessions and release their tender feelings. The description of these parts is often impatient and I jump quickly. However, now that I think about it, one is because I was impatient at the time, and the other is because I instinctively refused to accept this emotional element (similar to a strict and restrained person who resists revealing his true feelings, thinking that it is a kind of numbness), thus ignoring it. These are the most memorable parts of the novel. At that time, I didn't know that if the whole novel was compared to a bowl of Grandma's braised pork, then these parts would be the glutinous rice, which moistens the flesh and adds fragrance and is an indispensable component of this dish. And this movie made readers like me fully realize the moving point of "thickening."
In previous film and television work, Mr. Holmes often existed as an extremely sharp character. He was talkative, stubborn, liked to handle cases alone, and liked to keep everyone in the dark before the case was revealed. In general, in the past, Mr. Holmes was the image of a pure old-fashioned gentleman (although he had a strong interest and high attainments in boxing and fencing in the original book). Under the lens of Guy Ritchie, Mr. Holmes became a stocky fighter, and he climbed up and down like Jackie Chan, jumping around in the firelight, beating bad guys all over the place looking for teeth. If he didn't stop, Dr. Watson was reduced to a foil by comparison, relying on some inexplicable feelings about Sherlock Holmes to maintain his sense of existence. Sherlock Holmes in the British drama has become an attractive big boy image, and he has a lot of similarities with Sheldon, and he is more called Sherlock than Mr. Holmes. The show's new label of fashion and childishness on this classic character is a bit superficial, but the British style of Curly Fu also makes the character somewhat bookish, compared to Downey's version of Sherlock Holmes. It's too philistine.
These various Sherlock Holmeses have their own characteristics, but compared with this film, they all appear superficial and commercialized. This film focuses on Mr. Sherlock Holmes's evening scene. Through the details of his life and his review of the last case, he pulls Mr. Holmes from an idol back to the real state. In short, if there is a Mr. Holmes in history, this film will let me believe it is what it looks like in the film. To do this, the details matter, which brings back the "warm" moments in the original book mentioned above. This film gives me the feeling that it combines the beginning and the end of the novel; of course, not the content, but the warm feeling. It is not a simple combination of details, but through the old man's (Sherlock Holmes') suspicion and disgust for bits and pieces of the past (such as Dr. Watson's packaging of him as an idol with a big hat and a big pipe in the novel), to evoke my emotional memories of the details of the novel, the young boy (Roger) and the Japanese (Sanada Hiroyuki) in the film, and Ms.
Ann (the heroine of the last case), slowly dispel his doubts and disgust, and finally let him realize that those who have stayed or stayed or stayed briefly in his long detective career have all, in their own ways, more or less He has given him friendship and love, and he has had many opportunities to let go of his aloofness, laugh, and talk like an ordinary person. The words of the little boy, Roger, who died So in the end, when I saw him using stones to represent everyone in a circle, I was very moved when he knelt down in the middle. It was not only that Mr. Holmes had found the most important thing in his life, but I also seemed to stand in a bright light. These lights are composed of those tender moments of Jiguang Kayu in the original book I read a long time ago. This is the value of this film. He enriched the character core of Sherlock Holmes, and speaking of human words is "walking the heart".
On this basis, the director combined the three stories in a clever way and slowly extended them in different time dimensions, as if they were confused and not chaotic like a peanut tree, so that this film with a strong literary atmosphere still retains a trace of it. Although the atmosphere of the detective is not much (basically I can't feel the sense of urgency in the original work), it is also sufficiently watchable, so even viewers who are not interested in literary films will find that this most literary and artistic film The Sherlock Holmes movies are never dull or boring, and fans are amazed by Sir Ian McLaren's terrific acting skills.All in all, this is a literary and artistic version of "Sherlock Holmes" worthy of savouring. Anyone who has read "The Detective Sherlock Holmes" may find that Mr. Holmes is so close to himself after watching this film.
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