Mr. Holmes evaluation action
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Cathrine 2022-04-01 09:01:08
7/10. I don't know if it's because the makeup artist is incompetent or what, but Xia Fu's face has not changed with the aging 35 years ago. Foreign adaptations of celebrity biographies often like to de-sage, and do not agree with his perfect crime-solving and symbolic attire in the film, the remorse brought by combing the past and the mediocrity of the second half of his life, the gentle man who procrastinates by palm reading, and the man who stops the housekeeper's wife from killing bees. Crash Pain has completely faded away from the arrogant spy image, but the slow pace and constant interjection are very boring.
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[Holmes sees Mrs. Munro pouring kerosene on his apiary, and rushes outside]
Sherlock Holmes: You mustn't do that!
Mrs. Munro: My son won't wake. He may never wake. They sent me away till morning. You didn't even have the decency to tell me what'd happened to him!
Sherlock Holmes: I didn't think it would make a difference.
Mrs. Munro: [screaming] I'm his mother! I'm his mother, and you stole him from me! He's all I had! And I've lost him now. Why wasn't it you they did it to? - It should've been you!
Sherlock Holmes: The bees were not to blame.
Mrs. Munro: They're all you care about!
Sherlock Holmes: No! I care about Roger. I care about him very much...!
[He breaks down sobbing]
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[solving his last "case"]
Sherlock Holmes: The bees... didn't do it. The bees were not to blame. It was the wasps! Roger was trying to find out what was killing the bees. And he did. He found the wasps' nest. He had to stop them wiping out the bees. And so he did the worst possible thing. He tried to drown them with water from his can.
Mrs. Munro: How do you know it was them?
Sherlock Holmes: Bees leave their stings. Wasps don't. There were no stings left in Roger's face. And when they attacked, he dropped the watering can and ran up to protect the bees. There are his footprints from the apiary to the nest and back.
Mrs. Munro: He was trying to save the bees.
Sherlock Holmes: Yes.
[Together, they pour kerosene on the wasps' nest, and set it ablaze]