(After reading what was written on the computer back then, I thought about posting it after sorting out the files.)
When the trailer came out in February or March, I started to pay attention to this movie. After that, although I didn’t say that I was always paying attention and looking forward to it, I would occasionally think of it suddenly, and then I hurried to check if there was anything. resource. On October 12th, the raw meat resource came out, and I barely watched it for less than 3 minutes, so I decided to wait. On October 14th, Chinese and English subtitles were released. I didn't have much feeling after watching it for the first time. Maybe it was influenced by some comments "This is a literary film". It just feels the sadness of a hero's twilight and the loneliness of friends who have passed away.
On October 30th, I watched it for the second time at station B and found many things that I ignored the first time...
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Sherlock Holmes has always been young, wise, handsome, good at fighting, rational and even anti-social, whether in novels or in various film and television adaptations, but no one has ever thought about it or was unwilling to think about it. What happens to the legendary hero when he grows old.
Mr. Holmes, 93, suffers from amnesia. The name of the person to be met should be written on the cuff to prevent him from forgetting; he promised to go swimming with the housekeeper's son and forget it the next day; the doctor asked him to write down a point in his notebook every time he forgot something, and he joked from the beginning: "What if I forget to mark this thing." The dots on the notebook grew... He even forgot his last case.
When he was young and strong, Sherlock Holmes was a legend that people praised, and people came to him for help when they had trouble and confusion. The 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes was even disliked by the housekeeper: a strange old man who was smart, unable to speak and immobile, so that Holmes had to use an "increase in wages" to keep the housekeeper and her son, although the housekeeper did not want money because of money. To leave Sherlock Holmes, she is just an ordinary woman who is afraid of things and hopes that her son will live in peace. The 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes can still reason accurately and clearly, but when watching his narration of reasoning with a sick body, there is a kind of unconvincing display of psychology: I'm not old, you see, I can still observe a person. Just know what he has done. And the audience was inexplicably sad
The 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes has always despised the fictional stories of his good friend Watson. Sherlock Holmes in Watson's stories was created as a figure with a deerstalker hat and smoking a pipe. While criticizing the fictional stories, Sherlock Holmes himself had to Acknowledging that his image did change because of the story: he didn't want to be cheesy, so he wanted to model himself completely out of the story, so much so that he ditched the pipe he really loved - who can say for sure The stories that only Sherlock Holmes had, or the "real" Sherlock Holmes after these stories. The 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes came to the cinema and watched his last case, the "Glass Piano Case" on the screen. He was amused and disgusted. He knew that his last case was not the one played in the movie or the Watson story. It was as perfect as written in the book, but he couldn't remember the real truth back then.
In the process of retrieving his memory, the 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes really made people feel the fear of old age. He used royal jelly, went to Japan to find peppercorns, and found a drug syringe that had been dusty for many years in a hurry, trying to use these to evoke his memory, In his own words: "The story of completing the last case before dying." This has to make people miss Watson, his friend, Watson has always recorded his case and his story, and Watson Sherlock Holmes, who had long been married and left Baker Street and then passed away, had to pick up a pen to recall his own story without Watson.
Finally, Holmes remembered the whole truth of the last case. When the case ended 30 years ago, he retired because he couldn't understand and accept the outcome of the case, and now he has experienced the near death of the person he cared about - the son of the housekeeper's wife - and understands human nature: one cannot have only reason, and reason cannot Explain everything. Ann in the last case was lonely, and Sherlock Holmes said to Ann: I am lonely too, all my life. But I have my IQ to make up for it. Ann, a lonely woman with a husband who doesn't understand her, believes that the dead are not far from us. She thought that Mr. Holmes could understand her loneliness, but, obviously, Holmes' loneliness was also objective and rational, and she finally chose to die. The 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes finally understood Ann's loneliness, and finally released the last case.
The 93-year-old Holmes has become emotional, and he will teach the housekeeper's wife's son: do not apologize to those who have been hurt by you, you will regret it. The boy retorted him: adults say so. Holmes said: Because it is so. Perhaps, it took him his whole life to realize the correctness of this sentence. He was unable to say sorry to the people who were hurt by his own words, and he should regret it now.
The 60-year-old Sherlock Holmes was dissatisfied with Watson's fictional perfect final case and his heroic image, and even alienated the friendship between the two, and did not even meet Watson's death. Holmes, 93, understood that behind Watson's fiction were white lies to placate him. At the end of the film, Sherlock Holmes said that he completed his first work in the novel world. This work was not the last memoir-like case he wrote, but his reply to Mr. Umezaki in Japan. When he finally understood the meaning of the fictional story, he opened Watson's old desk and wrote the fictional story in the reply letter on it. Once, Watson wrote the story of the hero Sherlock Holmes on this desk to give hope to readers. Now, he wrote a reply letter on this desk to comfort Mr. Umezaki's tangled life.
Ultimately, people end up being stories.
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