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Mr. Holmes (2015)
★ 6.5 · 1,955 ratings on TMDB
The man behind the myth
In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he revisits the still-unsolved case that led to his retirement.
DirectorBill Condon
The emergence reading
Mr. Holmes keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
Same rung, same subject
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Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
