ENOLA HOLMES

This film is based on the Young Adult novel series by Nancy Springer. The main character is interpreted by Millie Bobby Brown. She’s Sherlock’s younger sister stirring up trouble, solving mysteries and carving out her own place in wealthy Victorian England.

She’s very much her own person in the way she goes about playing detective.

‘Enola’ means ‘Alone’ spelled backward.

And she and her thoroughly unorthodox mother are exactly that as they prowl about their expansive country mansion doing whatever they please.

Then she disappears suddenly as Enola turns 16

But while Sherlock seems to appreciate his little sister’s sharp mind and spry demeanor, Mycroft is mortified by how unkempt and uncouth she’s become and insists on sending her to an uptight finishing school to turn her into a proper lady.

Sherlock Holmes

(Henrry Cavill)

MycroftHolmes

(Sam Claflin)

The film’s true central conflict:

The fight for female liberation in a patriarchal society that’s loath to evolve.

When Enola travels by train to London to hunt down her mom, she ends up running into and inadvertently rescuing the Viscount Lord Tewksbury, Marquess of Basilwether.

At last, Enola solved the mystery and finds herself.