we will all grow old

Velda 2022-03-28 09:01:07

This film is very different from my imagination. It is different from the previous Sherlock Holmes. This film does not focus on reasoning, but it still does not disappoint. Of course, this film is well done. The script and the director's credit are behind the scenes. What impresses me most is the old man's acting skills. Really, if Feng Xiaogang's acting skills in Lao Pao'er are praised by everyone, I really don't think so. I know how to describe our Mr. Holmes.
He played Sherlock Holmes in his twilight years, and the old man's acting skills were really in place. The loneliness and confusion are really difficult to grasp so well, and it is also because the old man has rich life experience, and he can only play it when he is at this age and sees everything in the world.
No matter how smart people are, they can't help the erosion of time. The old Sherlock Holmes began to forget things. He really performed the kind of lonely and helpless kind of person who has reached the end of his life and the people he cared about have left him. Maybe my grandparents died when I was not too old. My grandfather died when I was 7 years old, and my grandmother died when I was 13 years old. When my grandmother died, I knew that I was afraid of crying, but all the discomfort at that time may not compare to the momentary discomfort when I think of my grandparents now. So I really always have no resistance to being with the old man, so the old man really touched my tears instantly. The real fear of crying is because he couldn't remember, so he wanted to make poison to kill himself. The tears didn't stop after that. I really cried until it was over and couldn't stop crying for a long time. I cried for more than an hour, breaking the record of 45 minutes of crying in Love Notebook.
It's really scary to grow old. Every time I see an old man, I can't help but think that he used to be as young as me, he liked to joke with friends, and he was a novice who didn't know how to deal with the world. The years have smoothed his edges and corners and taken away his youth. But I will be like that one day. In the end, Holmes, who is in the name of being inhumane, also misses his old friend. From the straight-line story in Japan, we can see the change of Holmes, from the rational analysis at the time that the error was not in him, to the writing of the reply, Holmes changed.
Writing this now makes me want to cry. Really don't want to grow old but who can stop time? So when people are old, they always feel that it is good to be young. There are many things that you really don't want to do or can't do when you get old.
This film is also a tribute to the Sherlock Holmes series, and it was shot just right. The little boy seems to be built! It's super cute, and the housekeeper is familiar, but I can't remember it. The Japanese are the bosses in Extant, and there is really a lack of Asian actors. Haha.

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Mr. Holmes quotes

  • Sherlock Holmes: A man abandoned his family and wrote his son a story. He wouldn't be the first to cloak his cowardice in a flag of sacrifice.

  • [first lines]

    Sherlock Holmes: You shouldn't do that. Tap the glass.

    Boy: How did you know I was going to?

    Boy's Mother: You must forgive my son, he loves bees.

    Sherlock Holmes: It isn't a bee, it's a wasp. Different thing entirely.