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monikakrasnorada:loveismyrevolution:monikakrasnorada:holmesianscholar:monikakrasnorada:221bloodnun:The Film “Stay” and How it Brings Things in Sherlock TogetherRight after TFP aired, I did this short meta about how the deaths and accidents in Sherrinford looked staged, and by that I mean they had too little blood, angles were wrong, etc. I was annoyed, because I started off the episode aware that Eurus’s eyes were the wrong color; not the contact lens issue, I mean the little actress playing Eurus had brown eyes while adult Eurus was revealed to have blue, which didn’t make sense. Unless something else was wrong, like little Eurus suddenly appearing in 221B, and the trio suddenly appearing on the beach (as mentioned in TLD), outside the old Holmes residence.In March, I was working on meta about repeating events, and how to work through things or stage them to look a certain way. It narrowed down to the editing, lighting, and directing choices–throwing in many film, tv, and lit references, in order to create possibly two seasons of content. I say possibly, because I watched S4, hoping it would explain things that still made no sense in S3 (wrong dates, Sherlock taking over the blog, and repeating things off the blog). It just got stranger in S4, and I still don’t know if we’re going to end up back in the aftermath of TRF or HLV. I will say though, that if you follow the plot, flickering lights, disappearing people and objects, staging, camera, and directing choices in Stay, S4 of Sherlock will make a lot more sense. I didn’t know that many people when I did my original meta, and wasn’t aware people hadn’t seen Stay. I was glad it seemed to help a few people. The image at the top if from the film Stay. It says Forgive Me over and over again, because Henry (Sherlock) not THoB Henry Knight, but that works too, because he also lost his parents in a traumatic event, writes it about his guilt over those deaths. Henry Knight was also a Sherlock mirror, and it’s possible that it was his parents that died in a traumatic way (based on evidence in TEH that I’ve already covered), causing the rift between Sherlock and Mycroft (or possibly their father having an affair). Henry’s been suicidal for quite some time, and the whole of Stay revolves around his traumatized brain trying to make sense of things in his last minutes alive. Compare that with the note John receives, because some of us contemplated that it was actually meant to represent the note Sherlock didn’t leave in TRF. “Ordinary” is also what John says about Sherlock’s parents in TEH, and it’s the word Mary uses about having a life with John. Note the line from Stay about suicide. Naomi Watts’ character is speaking to Sam (John), a plaid-and jumper wearing, bicycle-riding therapist who was standing in for Henry’s regular therapist or so it appears. She’s tried suicide before, and she’s quoting Henry’s favorite artist, who also took his own life. It’s important to note that Lila tells Sam (John) he can’t understand being in the kind of pain that she knew, and that Henry seems to be experiencing. It’s the same sort of idea that many of us have had about how John treats Sherlock in S3 and 4, without having been in his shoes. Lila does mention how there is too much beauty in the world to end things, though…Compare this with Sherlock in TLD, speaking from his own experience with taking his life in TRF.(Part of this is a direct quote from ACD canon The Veiled Lodger–)Sherlock: Your life is not your own.  Keep your hands off it, do you hear me? Sherlock: “Taking your own life.”  Interesting expression.  Taking it from who?  Oh, once it’s over, it’s not you who’ll miss it.(Resting one hand on the railing, he looks westwards along the river towards the London Aquarium.  In a brief cut-away, a pistol fires towards the camera, then there’s a brief shot of the exterior of the Aquarium as the gunshot echoes and then smoke rises from the end of the pistol.  Sherlock now has both hands on the railing as he continues to gaze along the river.)Sherlock: Your own death is something that happens to everybody else.(Faith has looked in the direction he’s looking but now turns to face him again.  He lowers his head, his back to her.)Sherlock: Your life is not your own.  (His voice becomes strained.)  Keep your hands off it.(As he looks down, it’s as if he and the railing are suspended in mid-air with no ground or river below them.  His feet are not touching anything.) ( x )This is important, because all the events that actually happened in Stay, take place on the Brooklyn Bridge. Henry is in hell. Sherlock: I’m burning up. (See more below). Mary: Sherlock, go to hell. Mycroft: I can give you a map for hell. ER number 999 becomes 666. We also have The Burning Child (a story told by Freud, who was brought up in TAB and all of S4), which is told my Henry’s father. It’s repeated, just like The Merchant story is in S4 of Sherlock. In Henry’s case, the father is manifesting as blind, because he possibly never took notice of his son or his art. Remember the idea that was going around for awhile that John had been shot in the eye, and was blind? It’s also why I sometimes refer to people (esp Mary in S4) as manifestations, thoughtforms or compilations of various people. It goes with this, where characters Athena and Lila are morphing, because Henry’s mind is becoming more and more unstable. This is what Athena actually looks like, and she’s practicing Hamlet (Henry Letham anagram–we know Mycroft loves those), a play about contemplating death. Here’s our Athena/Anthea, who is associated with marriage. This is in Magnussen’s MP (which also looks like Mycroft’s theatre).The number 21 comes up four times in this film, because that’s how old Henry was going to be when he committed suicide, but he fell in love with Athena. In one instance, it looks like 2121. 221B anyone?The original meta I did associated with Stay. The rest of these images will make more sense if you view it, but I didn’t want to make this meta too long. Henry in Sam’s office. Yes, the couch and bookshelf look like Sherlock’s chair.The glass sphere theme, like the one Arwel bought for S4. Twins and triplets everywhere. Leon, Henry’s dad, and Sam playing chess. Sam also has giant chess pieces on his office desk. Henry’s mother and Mary in T6T. Henry’s mom and Henry both have this bleeding head issue, because Henry hit his head during the car wreck. The injury is very much like the one when Sherlock goes off the roof in TRF, which is another reason why I can’t definitively say that things started getting weird in HLV. The aquarium (although that is also from The Lady of Shanghai, as are the multiple mirror reflections in HLV)Stairs like in Magnussen’s house.Olive, Henry’s dog who was put down years ago, just like Redbeard was.Empty fridge, like Mycroft’s.MRI scans in a not-quite medical facility, similar to in Sherrinford. When Henry visits a strip club, these scenes begin to show up on the screen behind the dancer, although the burning effect that happens when Mycroft watches his film is also referencing the film “Sinister”. I’m going to end this here, because you really should watch Stay for yourselves. This link will bring you to it on YouTube. I’m working on two other meta for Naomi Watts films that factor into Sherlock, but you should also read @may-shepard The Ring meta, because it’s amazing, and a second one by @swimmingfeelsinajohnlockianpool that filled in some more information. I’ll be interested to see if we end up with a seven days scenario, since weeks = years. More links and tags under the cut… Keep readingThe Mrs Letham / Mary comparison gives me life!!! Amazing, just amazing, @221bloodnun. Yooo thanks for letting me know and tagging me. Before I read any of your amazing analyses I had to pause and watch the film first, and I took notes - SPOILER ALERT!!! (may be missing some stuff or repeating) (not chronological)1. Well, Henry flipped the chess board like that Super Secret Photo with Secrets ™2. People changing directions / angles / positions. Reminds me those repeated, but different, takes from TST especially (John and Mary in bed, and Mary’s posthumous video)3. Confusing faces. Can’t even tell them apart.4. Old footages of family photos (complete with a dog!) 5. Sam has ~arched windows~ at his office.6. “Forgive me” on screen - similar opacity / technique as Mary’s “sorry imma bounce” letter7. “If this is a dream, a whole world’s inside it” hmm. Yes. Ringing a bell… If you haven’t seen the film, it’s honestly a goddamn masterpiece. Watch it now. So good. Highly recommend it.Amazing, right, @holmesianscholar??? I still can’t get over it.And you know what @holmesianscholar … he’s throwing the chess board over the moment Sam forced him to remember… exact words: “Sometimes we don’t want to remember, but I think you have to try.” I’m screaming…. I not even finished the movie yet…Watching everyone watch this film: -- source link

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