REVIEW
Sherlock Series
The Abominable Bride
Hello everyone, in this
article I’m going to review a movie about the phenomenal detective named
Sherlock Holmes which is created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he was a Scottish author and physician. Holmes who describes
himself as a “consulting detective” is known as logical reasoning skills,
abilities of disguise and his skills in forensic science to solve various
cases.
Holmes,
who first appeared in 1887, becoming a character in four novels and 56 short
stories. The first novel that introduces his figure is “A Study in Scarlet” in
1887. Anyway, it was just a brief reviews about the books, but now I am not
going to discuss about his books, as I promise before, I will review his movie.
The first
Sherlock Holmes movie based on Sir Arthur Conan doyle’s work is titled
“Sherlock Holmes”, which is aired in cinema around the world in 2009. The movie
was directed by Guy Ritchie and the main character who act as SH is Robert
Downey Jr. who also act as Tony Stark at Iron Man movie. In this movie, Robert downey jr. didn't act well as Sherlock Holmes character so the SH character in
this movie was not same with Doyle' books, the story was also different, and SH's character was
not show his genius properly.
Then
in 2010, came the TV series of Sherlock Holmes movie directed by Mark Gatiss
and Steven Moffat, it stars Benedict
Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson. The TV series of this Sherlock Holmes movie is
titled “Sherlock” as the main title, it aims to differentiate it from the wide
screen version of Sherlock Holmes. Ten episodes have been
produced, with three-part series airing in 2010, 2012 and 2014, and a special
episode airing on 1 January 2016.
As the title I wrote above, I will only review the special edition which was
aired in 2016.
"The Abominable
Bride" is a special episode of the British television program Sherlock.
The episode was broadcast on BBC One and BBC One HD. It depicts the
characters of the show in an alternative timeline; in the Victorian
London setting of the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The
title is based on the quote ("Ricoletti of the club foot and his
abominable wife") from "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual",
which refers to a case mentioned by Holmes.
The film starts with a swift
reiterative flashback to all of the previous episodes. Then, the story begins
in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, where Dr John Watson narrates his service
in Afghanistan resulting in his being seriously wounded. After his medical
discharge from the Army, he goes to London, where he is met by Stamford, his
fellow-student at Bart's, who takes him to meet Sherlock Holmes, who is
beating corpses with a cane to establish the principle of bruising after death.
Holmes invites Watson to share his new flat in Baker Street, which Watson
accepts.
In 1895, just before
Christmas, Watson and Holmes ride on a carriage through London, while The
Strand promotes Watson's new story, 'The Blue Carbuncle'. After
arriving at Baker Street, Mrs Hudson meets them outside. She complains to
Watson that she not be treated as a plot device in his stories before they discover
that Watson's wife Mary is posing as a client to see her husband. Inspector
Lestrade arrives and presents Holmes and Watson with a puzzling case: Emelia
Ricoletti, a consumptive bride gone mad, had fired on by-passers in
the street from a balcony, before fatally shooting herself in the head through
her mouth. Later that evening, while exiting an opium den, Mr Ricoletti was
confronted by Emelia, still dressed as a bride, who shot him before
disappearing into the fog. Intrigued by Emelia's apparent survival, Holmes
takes the case. At the morgue, an antagonistic Dr Hooper informs Holmes that
the woman who killed herself, the woman who murdered Mr Ricoletti and the body
on hand have all been positively identified as Emelia Ricoletti. Stymied,
Holmes loses interest in the case. When the bride apparently returns to murder
other men, he deduces that these are copycat crimes.
Months later, Holmes'
brother Mycroft refers a case to Holmes: Lady Carmichael's husband, Sir Eustace
Carmichael, received a threatening warning in the form oforange pips, sent to
him in an envelope. Sir Eustace is uncooperative, describing his wife as
"hysterical". That night, Holmes and Watson stake out the house. The
ghostly-looking bride appears and disappears in front of them, and the sound of
breaking glass is heard. Sir Eustace is heard screaming, then Lady Carmichael.
Holmes finds Sir Eustace mortally stabbed, seemingly by Emelia, who frightens
Watson and then escapes through a broken window. Lestrade arrives and mentions
a note found attached to the dagger which Holmes says was not there when he
found the body. The note reads, 'Miss me?', a phrase used by the modern-day
Moriarty. After insisting that the case's solution is so simple that even
Lestrade could solve it, Holmes meditates. Moriarty appears and taunts Holmes
about the mystery of Emelia shooting herself but still being alive, alluding to
the similarity to Moriarty shooting himself in the 21st century, before
again shooting himself in the head, but still alive with a wound in his head.
Moriarty says that "It is not the fall that kills you, Sherlock, It is the
landing". Then we see the plane with Sherlock from the episode 'His
Last Vow' landing where John and Mycroft is, revealing that the Victorian
Sherlock and the case were actually in Sherlock's mind and the episode was
really the continuation of the original series.
Mycroft, John, and Mary come
inside the plane as Sherlock—ostensibly delirious—rambles about the historical
unsolved Ricoletti case. He confesses to Mycroft, John, and Mary that he had
used drugs to enter a simulation in his mind palace. In attempting to solve the
Ricoletti case, he hopes to learn how Moriarty has returned. Ignoring warnings
from Mycroft and John, he once again enters the mind palace.
Holmes is then awakened by
Watson in the past with the events of the present seemingly a delusion from the
diluted cocaine solution he had injected. Holmes receives a telegram
from Mrs Watson saying she has found Emelia's co-conspirators at a desanctified
church. There they discover and interrupt a secret group of the Women's Rights
Movement (similar to the Suffragette movement in the late 19th
Century), whose members include Dr Hooper, Janine Donlevy and Watson's
maidservant. Holmes explains that they used a double to fake Emelia's death,
allowing her to kill her husband and create the persona of the avenging bride.
Already dying, she was later killed at her request by being shot through the
mouth; the duplicate corpse was replaced by her actual corpse, the one Holmes
and Watson saw at the morgue, for a positive identification. Since then, the
women have used the persona of the bride to murder men who wronged them.
Sherlock surmises that Lady Carmichael, being a member of the society, killed
her husband. He makes his accusation to the approaching bride, assuming that it
is Lady Carmichael. But to his shock, the "bride" is revealed to be
Moriarty.
Sherlock then seems to
awaken in the present, where he insists on digging up Emelia's grave to prove
that her body-double was buried under the coffin. While doing so, he hears
Emelia's corpse repeatedly whispering, "Do not forget me". The corpse
moves to attack him, then Holmes awakens in the past on a ledge next to the Reichenbach
Falls (a streamline of the Fall). Moriarty appears and says Holmes is
still stuck in his mind palace - Holmes realizes that he was still dreaming
whilst digging up the corpse. The men fight and Moriarty gains the upper hand,
but Watson appears and holds Moriarty at gunpoint. Watson kicks Moriarty off
the ledge and then asks Holmes how he can wake up in the present. Holmes
decides to fall over the ledge, having confidence he will survive.
Sherlock wakes up in the
present on the plane. Mycroft asks John to look after Sherlock, hoping he will
not use drugs again. After John leaves the plane, Mycroft opens Sherlock's
notebook, revealing the word "Redbeard". Sherlock concludes that
Moriarty is indeed dead but had planned events to occur even after his own
death. Shifting to the past again, Holmes describes an aeroplane and mobile
telephone to a sceptical Watson, then looks out the window onto Baker Street in
the present.
According
to the plot that I had already told you above,
