There are very few elements to solve the case in the film, and it is simple and rude. On the contrary, the close-up shots of various characters' expressions, the rendering of various environmental emotions, and various reflections on the relationship between sensibility and reason are simply a literary film.
As for Sherlock Holmes, I read a few stories when I was a child, and then I read Shenxia. That's it, I really don't have much fanatical love. It's just that when I went to the UK, I also went to 221B Baker Street.
Looking at the books that Sherlock Holmes read, the chairs she sat on, the pipes she smoked, the desks she used to write, the pens in the Sherlock Holmes Memorial Museum...
think that many people would say that they worship Sherlock Holmes but not Conan Doyle. It is not easy for characters to be so embodied by people. A character in a book is given flesh and blood by people, which is also a beautiful talk.
Perhaps Sherlock Holmes fanatics will resent the film's weakening of Sherlock Holmes, the fact that the film has turned the original Sherlock Holmes into a lie and an exaggeration.
But if you say that the embodiment of Sherlock Holmes, in fact, this movie is even more of a peak. It pulled the god-like characters in people's imagination again and turned them into more flesh-and-blood ordinary people.
Speaking of Sherlock Holmes, one usually imagines that he was smart and wise, with electric eyes like torches, and he was observant. However, this film gives an aged, lonely and helpless image. Then in fact these images are closer to the essence of man.
Only imaginary heroes are invincible and always brilliant. In reality, heroes are often lonely, helpless, and old.
I like the wise Sherlock Holmes who seems to never be defeated, and of course I don't reject the old Sherlock Holmes who was pulled down from the altar.
The film expresses Sherlock Holmes' loneliness and hope in three lines very artistically.
The line of Ann, a woman who committed suicide, is the source and starting point of Sherlock Holmes' pain. I think its side reflects the loneliness of the old Sherlock Holmes.
His loneliness often comes from his almost stubborn pursuit of truth and logic. He did not agree with the Sherlock Holmes written by Watson. He might feel that Watson betrayed truth and logic, and he felt that Watson did not understand himself.
Then this line of the little boy Roger can be regarded as the redemption of Sherlock Holmes. In fact, it can’t be said that the little boy did something to redeem him. I think more often the line of Ann and the line of Roger are interspersed. Sherlock Holmes sorted out his thoughts and entanglements through the communication with the little boy, so that he finally understood To have truth and logic alone does not necessarily bring happiness.
In the line of the last Japanese Umezaki, he chose to use a lie instead of the truth to soothe the inner sustenance of the mother and son.
Here is a small detail. Holmes sat on the desk left by Watson and finished writing his letter to Umezaki. I think he has understood that Watson reworked the story to protect him.
The truest truth and logic are sometimes cruel and ruthless. Sherlock Holmes pursued this truth all his life, ignoring human feelings, making him lonely and helpless.
But in the end, just as he took hope from Roger, he conveyed that hope to Umezaki.
I think the movie depicts the process of the collision between the logical reason and the human sensibility in the heart of old Sherlock Holmes.
Maybe the movie is to let this legendary figure who is so persistent to the point of stubbornly pursuing the truth finally let go of that stubbornness and experience a gentle humanity at the moment of ageing.
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