Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional character has stood the time. From the time he appeared in the Strand Magazine to the eagerly waiting die-hard fans to read about his next case and the time he was the subject of many movies and TV series, he continues to excite the masses.
Over the years, the stories get only more attractive. This time around, he is trying to solve a century old unexplained murder of two men; one after she had apparently shot herself through her head in a suicide then return to kill another! The complicated thing is that he is doing through a stuporous state of a self-proclaimed regulated dose of cocaine in the system. Holmes is the 21st century, and he goes in and out of consciousness as he tries to find the answer to the perplexing question, how ghosts commit murder? At the same time, he has to fight his arch nemesis, Professor Moriarty, the devious ‘Napoleon of crime’.
The role of Holmes is assumed again by Benedict Cumberbatch, and Martin Freeman is Dr John Watson. Listening to the dialogue, I sense that there is more to it than the rattling off words. Some hidden meanings, perhaps? Just realised that it is the Suffragette movement that fought for the women’s rights in England at the turn of the 19th century.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional character has stood the time. From the time he appeared in the Strand Magazine to the eagerly waiting die-hard fans to read about his next case and the time he was the subject of many movies and TV series, he continues to excite the masses.
Over the years, the stories get only more attractive. This time around, he is trying to solve a century old unexplained murder of two men; one after she had apparently shot herself through her head in a suicide then return to kill another! The complicated thing is that he is doing through a stuporous state of a self-proclaimed regulated dose of cocaine in the system. Holmes is the 21st century, and he goes in and out of consciousness as he tries to find the answer to the perplexing question, how ghosts commit murder? At the same time, he has to fight his arch nemesis, Professor Moriarty, the devious ‘Napoleon of crime’.
The role of Holmes is assumed again by Benedict Cumberbatch, and Martin Freeman is Dr John Watson. Listening to the dialogue, I sense that there is more to it than the rattling off words. Some hidden meanings, perhaps? Just realised that it is the Suffragette movement that fought for the women’s rights in England at the turn of the 19th century.
Every great cause has martyrs. Every war has suicide missions and make no mistake, this is war. One half of the human race at war with the other. The invisible army hovering at our elbow, tending to our homes, raising our children. Ignored, patronised, disregarded. Not allowed so much as a vote. But an army nonetheless, ready to rise up in the best of causes. To put right an injustice as old as humanity itself. So you see, Watson, Mycroft was right. This is a war we must lose.
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