All Stories
Dec 24, 2009
Out of Frame: A Single Man & Sherlock Holmes
Two movies open tomorrow featuring British men with a fundamental and crippling fear of being alone. Both have extremely strong bonds to the men in their lives. When those men disappear, they are left alone with their worst inclinations. The two have very different coping mechanisms. For one, the answer is suicide. For the other, it is to commit enough mischief and calculated manipulation to bring his wayward partner back into his orbit. For…