A goldfish's review and analysis of Shenxia's special "The Vicious Bride"

Christian 2022-03-28 09:01:09

Contains a lot of spoilers, those who mind bypass it.
Contains a lot of spoilers, those who mind bypass it.
Contains a lot of spoilers, those who mind bypass it.

This special broadcast had mixed results, and it was really anxious to see it, so I couldn't help writing such an article to analyze it.
However, this summary is really the result of the second brush, and the first time did not see so many details at all.

First of all, let's make a simple and rude analysis: this film is about Holmes having a dream on the plane, and using a similar old case to reason to prove that Professor Mo is dead in reality.

I still remember that at the end of the third season, Professor Mo's "Did you miss me?" appeared on screens all over the UK. Everyone thought he had come back to life, and Holmes was a little uncertain.

Reason told him that Professor Mo should be dead, and emotion told him that Professor Mo was not dead, that is, his inner demon told him that Professor Mo was still dead! Haunting style~

So, he was thinking about it after hanging up McGeor's phone on the plane. As a result, he was already on drugs before he got on the plane, and then... his reasoning entered a state of dream, that is, back to the Victorian era.

Later in the film, he also jumped back and forth between reality and dreams several times, which will be explained in detail in the following analysis.

So this special is really not a serious movie, but a trailer in disguise - the trailer for the fourth season. And if you want to understand it, you must have a memory about the plot of the previous seasons and a thorough understanding of the plot.

So, stop talking nonsense, now to the extended version of the analysis, from the beginning then.

To be honest, the first half of the plot review is really not helpful, and the focus is on the second half, the second and third seasons of the review clips. Because this special, mainly borrowed some of the plots of the two seasons.

If you haven't watched it, or don't remember what the previous seasons were about, then you basically can't understand it.

Okay, the plot review of the special is over, and we are jumped to the Victorian era.
The beginning is the Victorian version of Huafu's first encounter. . . I see a burst of fire! ! !

After that, it jumped to Sherlock Holmes and John, who had returned from the case after getting acquainted, and then Mary and John quarreled.

They quarreled, and Holmes interrupted, saying enough was enough.

Here comes the first key reminder:
The stage is set, the curtain rises, we are ready to begin.

Mary asked, what are you going to start with?
Sherlock Holmes said that sometimes in order to solve a case, you have to solve another first.

When I saw this, I was vigilant, what? What? What? two cases? !

Then John looked like, what the heck, do you have a new case?
Holmes said no, it was an old case, a long, long time ago. I need to go deep.
John said, go deep into what?
Holmes said, go deep into myself, myself.

It's worth noting here. The reasoning that needs to go deep into his heart may involve some of his inner demons, or his inner weakness.

Then there is the review of the bride's case, until you enter the morgue.

The front is basically mocking Anderson's IQ, and everyone saw Molly Hooper, a girl disguised as a man.
This section focuses on discussing there, plus the blood on the wall.

As you all remember, John analyzed the reason for coming back to life, maybe because the bride has a twin sister or something.
Sherlock Holmes looked like, impossible! Absolutely not! Absolutely not!
The inspector also said next to her that she only had a brother who died a few years ago.

Here, Holmes' overreaction to the twin reasoning is noteworthy.
At the same time, this is also a hint from the screenwriter in disguise that Mo Niang is dead. Or at least, you're expecting the twins to be resurrected, which is impossible.

In fact, many people should have seen it. The method of death of this bride is similar to that of Professor Mo. They all fired a shot in the head, and they all appeared in people's field of vision after they died.

Sherlock Holmes also said to himself again, the bullet went through his head, and the back of his head was gone. How did "he" survive?

John immediately said it wasn't him, it was her.
Holmes was in a trance.
This gender designation is notable.

Someone with a heart may have guessed that he may not really be in the Victorian era, but in a dream, or a state that is not in the real world.
After all, he was here, thinking of Professor Mo who died in the real world.
Moreover, he was still very awake in the dream. He realized he wasn't really in the Victorian era. Otherwise, why would he often think about things in reality?
This point will have a big role in the analysis in the future. Here, the judges should remember it first.

Besides the blood on the wall,
do you remember what Professor Mo said to Sherlock Holmes in previous seasons, I owe you? He also left a message like this.
Remember the engraved apple? Remember the IOU for glass windows?

In the dream version, there is a blood-red you on the wall.
There are similarities in this, once again echoing the plot that happened in reality.

Then the two left the morgue, and in the carriage John asked Holmes, do you have a theory?
He said, no, the water in here is very deep. very deep.

Oh, it's deep again, deep deep deep. Does it sound a little familiar?
"I need to go deep into myself."

Then they went to see Mike, and the part in between will not be mentioned.
Skip the sign language funny part, they meet the fat-enhanced version of McGee! Made me laugh.
Mike in the dream is so fat. How much resentment you have, Sherlock Holmes.

After Mike turned on the mocking mode to molest his younger brother, tell him that you will take up the case. I already have a theory on this case, and I need you to run errands. (You are lazy, fat!)

Then the two of them investigated the case and went to the lady's house to meet his husband, the Sir.
As they went out, Holmes had a note worth noting.
We all have a past, Watson. Ghosts. They are the shadows that define our every sunny days.
We all have a past, Peanuts. ghost. They are the shadows that set off our every sunny day.

If you pay close attention to the camera, Benny's subtle expressions can say a lot.

Back to Ghosts, ghosts. To a certain extent, Professor Mo's return to the screen is a return of a ghost.
And then the past is also mentioned here. What is the past? Maybe it involves Sherlock Holmes' demon, maybe it's hinting at something else.

So at night, the two squatted in one place and chatted.
Peanut asked a key word, what made you like this?
What made you this way?
Holmes said, I MADE ME.

Here again, some of the past of Sherlock Holmes are being mapped, and what it is, we don’t know yet.

Then the jazz hung up.
Sherlock Holmes didn't see the note on the body at first, but he found it after the detective reminded him.
That note says, miss me?

So Sherlock Holmes began to doubt life again, he fell into a trance state, he thought of Professor Mo. The thinking here has been divorced from the bride's case itself. What he is thinking of is the resurrected Professor Mo, not the bride.

It's also a reminder to the audience that he wasn't really in the Victorian era.

Then Holmes jumped into the dream of the dream, which is the dream of the Victorian era, into the dream of him and McGonagall.

Interesting here.
He went back to the room where he saw Mike, and he saw the picture on the wall. Anyone who has read the original will know that it is the Reichenbach Falls, where Sherlock Holmes and Professor Mo duel in the original.
Then McGonagall said,
you're in too deep, sherlock, deeper than you expected.
deep, deep, deep. Sound familiar?

The deep here means that Sherlock Holmes is too deep into himself, too deep into his inner demon.
Then Mike asked him, did you make a table?

Table of this stalk, there will be in the future. No explanation here.

Holmes went on to say that Professor Mo tried to distract him and derail him.
McGonagall said yes, virus in the data, the virus in the data.

This is another particularly obvious hint. How about the Victorian era that there is a virus in the data?

Then Holmes said, I must end this.

So he jumped out of the dream in his dream and returned to his dream.
Then everyone saw the familiar thinking palace, and then Professor Mo appeared.

Based on the concept that dreams are projections of reality, then we can speculate that in reality, Professor Mo has been to 221B four times. Because Professor Mo said in the conversation, I have been here four times.

Please recall the fat Mike in the dream again. In the third season, McGonagall had a scene on the treadmill. Sherlock Holmes has also made fun of McGonagall's weight over the past few seasons.
So in the dream, it's not surprising that McGee is so fat.
Because the representation in the subconscious is based on reality and is the projection of reality.

So using this logic, we can speculate that Professor Mo has been to 221B four times, and he has also lain on his bed. [It's rotten
and, these Sherlock Holmes know it.

Then the two were talking again.
Professor Mo said that not knowing the truth makes your world fall apart. Then he shot himself at himself, and he was still intact.

Sherlock Holmes' expression was particularly shocked at this time: You are obviously dead, obviously dead!

Then the dream world of Holmes began to tremble. Professor Mo said it would not be a fall, but a landing.
So we saw that he jumped out of the dream and the plane landed.

At this time, the BGM sounded ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah.

When McGee and the others got on the plane, Holmes woke up. But his dream reasoning was interrupted, and he said he was going back.
Peanut and McGee and the others have a face, are you talking about Mao?
At this time Holmes gave an explanation, he was using one case to push another case.

His drug use is also explained here. Lists or something, you know.

So, Sherlock Holmes willfully jumped back to the dream.

The following reasoning is skipped here.

The point is that where he dug the grave, many people were stunned.

There he jumps out of the Victorian dream, but into the dream of the real background. I dreamed that he was digging a grave. . .

The fact is him. . . . . . . . Changed the background of a dream.

Then he jumped back to the Victorian era.

The result of the original reasoning should be that the lady is the murderer. As a result, his inner demons were at work, and the lady became Professor Mo. So he was Spartan.

Immediately after his inner demon made him jump to the Reichenbach waterfall scene, the duel scene.
The dialogue here will not explain too much, the dialogue itself reveals his inner demon and his tangle.

Later, the appearance of Peanut saved him.
At the same time, it also implies that this may be the case in reality.

His inner demon needs to be overcome by himself, but at the same time, he also needs peanuts.

The last jump to the waterfall is actually very shocking.
Holmes said, I always survive a fall.
Looking back on the third season, he jumped off the building. fell, survived.
In the original book, he jumped over a waterfall and survived.

He chose this way to escape his inner demon, and then, survived.

So, he was completely out of the dream.
And said that he knew what Professor Mo would do next. Through the reasoning he borrowed from another case in the dream, as well as his analysis and recognition of his own demons.

The last part of returning to the Victorian era confused a group of people again.

In fact, this passage is a tribute to the original.
He and Peanut discussed the future world, as if the characters in the book were imagining what they would be like if they were placed in the future real world.

The paragraph at the end goes like this:
Anyway, I know I'll be very comfortable in that world.
Because, I have always known that I am a person who exists beyond the times.


The essence of this special is not the strength of reasoning, but the sublimation of the idea and consciousness, which is Sherlock Holmes' self-knowledge and victory.

It's also a teaser trailer that foreshadows what's going to happen next season four.
Remember when the unscrupulous screenwriter said that the fourth season would be very dark?
Then I guess, maybe it involves Holmes' drug addiction, or the resurgence of his inner demons.

There are too many real and dream echoes here. There are too many original tributes.
The details will not be summarized here, otherwise I will be exhausted by the brain-burning film! [Actually, I am too lazy.
I have mentioned that the code words basically echo the plot, and welcome to add.

To sum up, this special is really novel and shocking, and it is also a grass snake and gray line.

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Extended Reading

The Abominable Bride quotes

  • [Holmes' telegram to Watson: "COME AT ONCE IF CONVENIENT. IF INCONVENIENT, COME ALL THE SAME. HOLMES."]

  • Dr. John Watson: [to Mycroft, regarding his eating habits] Well, now that you mention it, this level of consumption is incredibly injurious to your health, your heart...

    Sherlock Holmes: No need to worry on that score, Watson.

    Dr. John Watson: No?

    Sherlock Holmes: There's only a large cavity where that organ should reside.

    Mycroft Holmes: It's a family trait.

    Sherlock Holmes: Oh, I wasn't being critical.