Traditionally, films about Sherlock Holmes have three main elements: "good friend" Watson, an intricate case, and the heroic aura of Sherlock Holmes. But in Mr. Holmes, you won't find any of these three elements.
It was an old Sherlock, his memory was severely weakened, and he needed to peek at the name of his cuff to remember who he was talking to. He was no longer agile, but he was a faltering old man who fell out of bed when sick and needed help. Those who had been around him in the past, Watson, Mrs. Hudders, and brother Mycroft were all dead. He left Baker Street to live in the quiet countryside, surrounded by Mrs. Munro, the housekeeper, and her son Roger, who had dreamed of a detective.
At the beginning of the film, Sherlock returns to England from Japan, and is occasionally recognized on the platform. "It's you!" In the eyes of others, Sherlock still has a heroic aura, but as far as he sees it, he just wants to spend his old age quietly and write the truest story.
In order to improve his memory, he went to Japan to find prickly ash, but in the end found it to be of no use at all. He tried and struggled to recall the case he finally solved. He wanted to restore the case itself, not the fictional story written by Watson.
Finally, with the help of the housekeeper's son Roger, he remembered the ins and outs of the whole thing, but he could only sigh:
I have successfully deduced the ins and outs of her case, but I have not grasped the deep meaning of it. I have never felt such an incomprehensible emptiness in my heart. Only after that did I realize how lonely I was in the world.
At the time, he offered this advice to Ann, who was being investigated in this case:
As long as he is lucky enough to find a place in the world where his loneliness can be with another soul.
Ann hopes to share his loneliness with Sherlock, but he still believes that his ingenuity can replace the so-called "loneliness". Ann's helplessness lies in the fact that she lost her two children permanently due to two miscarriages, and her beloved husband doesn't understand her inner grief at all, and even invites a private detective to investigate her. As a woman, as a living person, her loneliness, helplessness and despair, and in Sherlock's eyes, this is just another "case".
So Ann made a choice. As she put it, "the dead weren't really far away, they were just, on the other side of the wall."
About the film, the "Independent" film review once had this title: Ian McKellen's Sherlock studies his last case – himself. The last case is actually his introspection. Prosperity is over, and in the end everyone will return to ordinary. When he was young, Sherlock was indeed extremely intelligent and extremely conceited, but emotionally, he was empty inside.
In the end, he decided to send a letter to Mr. Umezaki, who had invited him to Japan. It was his suggestion that forced Umezaki's father to stay and serve in the British Empire, and he never returned to his homeland after that, lonely and helpless. And despair accompanied his wife and children.
In this letter he wrote:
Write to let me know that I finally recall my meeting with your father. A woman died because I couldn't help her solve a case. My heart is full of guilt and guilt because I'm nowhere near as bad as people think. When I got an expedited letter telling me to go to the Diogen's Club to meet my brother Mycroft. Your father went on to serve the King of England for a long time, always loyal and famous. From the Malay Strait to the Arabian Sea. He is brave, sincere, elegant, and he has a loving wife and son, which is something to be proud of.
In this letter, "From the Malay Strait to the Arabian Sea." This sentence should be made up by Sherlock. In fact, he should not know what happened to Umezaki's father after that. He just wanted to use this letter to let Umezaki know the truth and hope that he could be proud of his father, that's all.
Umezaki took Sherlock to Hiroshima after the nuclear bombing, and he seemed to see people there kneeling before the stones. Umesaki told him, "These stones represent those who died." So in the film's final scene, he falls on his knees between six stones representing Watson, his brother Mycroft, and Mrs. Hades. , Umezaki's parents, Ann (the woman whose last case could not be saved).
Sherlock paid the price for his arrogance, but in fact, some things can be salvaged, but when some things happen, they will cause permanent loss, such as war.
Monroe's husband died in a plane explosion during World War I, when all his colleagues in the yard returned home unscathed, and he was the only one who left this world permanently; Umezaki's father stayed in the King after World War I. , Sherlock Holmes witnessed the horror of World War II in Hiroshima, Japan, the residents who were hit hard by nuclear radiation, this was not the life they should have.
So, in the end, all of this points to "loneliness".
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