“Mr. Holmes” at the movies: The Truth about the master detective – Tagesspiegel

12/23/2015 18:27 clock By Christian Schröder <- inteaserpicposition:! 2 -> <- self.position: -1 -> <- classid: hcf inline-left -> <- position: left -> <- inisprint: false -> <- inhaspic: true ->

What if Sherlock Holmes loses his memory? Ian McKellen is “Mr. Holmes,” the new film by Bill Condon.

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Sherlock Holmes can not die. As its creator Arthur Conan Doyle the master detective had sunk in the Swiss Reichenbach Falls, in a Engkampf with the eternal rival Professor Moriarty, he noted in his diary: “Killed Holmes”. But the protests of the fans is so great that the writer has to resurrect his character. Sherlock Holmes must not die.

But Sherlock Holmes is getting old. In Bill Condon’s film “Mr. Holmes “, who celebrated at the Berlin premiere, he is 93, a still famous man who lives quietly in a country house in Sussex. Ian McKellen, one of the best British character actors and already 76 years old, playing this old man, whose spirit extinguished slowly. McKellen waddles stockbeinig through the scenes, his face is a landscape with grumpy expression wrinkles, but he lets his character dignity. This Holmes, no question, is a King Lear, which retains its size in the downfall

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The man who knew how to unravel from observations by “deduction” all criminal cases, the reality is slipping. Holmes is about to lose his memory. The names of the people with whom he speaks, he has to write on his cuffs. The motion he now needs for reading, not for inspecting lanes. He has just returned from Japan, where he has “Hire Sansito” worried an agent that supposedly helps against senility. He has found it. Ironically, in the burned-out ruins of Hiroshima, a nightmarish scene “I went into exile, to punish me,” he says. “But why? I can not remember “

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It is the year 1947, there are streamlined cars, no Victorian horse-and gaslights atmosphere more like in earlier films. “Mr. Holmes, “which follows a novel by US writer Mitch Cullin, is a sequel to the Holmes saga, the gentle deconstruction of the myth. No, the detective has never worn the famous deerstalker, which was invented for the movies. Instead whistle he preferred cigars. The address Baker Street 221 b, supposedly his residence and now the address of a museum, is false

long since the master thinker has retired, but one leaves him no peace:. A 35 year of past case. The companion Dr. Watson, his deceased 30 years ago Eckermann has turned it into a heroic short story. Holmes wants to correct and re-takes the investigation on. But he can still? To remember? Kriminalistisch is the “case Munro” quite silly, it’s about a worried husband, a perfume that attracts bees and a glass harmonica, with the can summon the dead. It is crucial that the detective is faced at the end with his own feelings. A woman had offered him, the loneliness in the future to share with him

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Holmes, this is the Surprise is, in “Mr. Holmes “human. The sociopath who used such a machine his brain and was afraid of emotions, is now capable of empathy and empathy, particularly with respect to its sometimes sergeant liable housekeeper (Laura Linney) and her son Roger (Milo Parker), he in the secrets of beekeeping initiates. For The Start – this is the conciliatory message – it’s never too late.

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