Movie Review Week 3

Title: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

3 Interesting Words

1.       Compelling-

# Adjective; so interesting that you pay attention to it

v  Taylor’s latest single topped music charts since it was really compelling that I can hear people singing to it mostly everywhere I went.

                   #so strong that you must do something about it

v  Kim’s compelling desire for Suzy’s attention leads him to become a psychotic stalker who will hurt anyone in his way to get her.

2.       Succumb- to not be able to fight an attack or illness

v  Uncle James was succumbed to cancer that he eventually died yesterday after a long run of therapy.

3.       Lavatory- toilet in public building/ a room with toilet

v  “I’m sorry but you can’t use the lavatory now Miss because it is still under maintenance,” the conductor said.

How did the movie reflect current events?

                       Beneath those hilarious scenes and acting by Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes, lies a pivotal theme that reflects today’s world turbulence which could lead to war. For the sake of wealth and power, one would let killings and chaos happened among humans. That is how Professor Moriarty, the antagonist is portrayed in the film. From the movie itself, it is clearly said that Moriarty who had massive supply of weapons for war; guns and cannons planned to spark fight between the countries in the world by murdering important persons in the country. Thus, war happened. So did money transfers into his bank account. An assassin, who had a total facial surgery to look exactly like an ambassador from a particular country, was paid to assassinate the Prime Minister by Moriarty. Nonetheless, due to Holmes’ genius investigative mind, he eventually got to identify the assassin. Unfortunately, the assassin was poisoned in order to keep him silent forever, to hide Moriarty’s evil conspiracy. Some people opined that the reason war still happen today is because of hunger; for food, power, and money. It is possible to stop war with equality is given to every country but then, due to selfishness and hunger people let others die to satisfy their needs and desire. That is basically human nature and how human live today. Even in a competition, we race among ourselves, and to gain victory, we have to eliminate others who are not as important as us. In a nutshell, I believe war will not stop until everyone treat each other equally and that when everyone’s desire is fulfilled.