Opinion | Noah Berlatsky: Netflix's 'Enola Holmes' offers a welcome, feminist critique of a cultural icon. - NBCNewsTHINK
is now in the public domain, some later Sherlock Holmes stories are still under copyright. The deciding factor, according to his estate, is emotional. Holmes only showed emotions in his later, still copyrighted stories, lawyers claimed, and since he shows emotions in the new Netflix film, the streamer owed the Holmes estate money.
. The movie uses Sherlock Holmes to represent a sexist and reactionary past, which our young heroine, Enola, must evade and overturn. The Doyle estate, in trying to keep Sherlock for themselves, is also trying to keep him, and the past he represents, from being criticized or changed. The movie ends up being a demonstration of why it's important to let cultural icons pass into the public domain so they can be reimagined, challenged and sometimes given a good kick in the shins.
A benevolent patriarch is still a patriarch, and a nicer Sherlock is still a Sherlock who benefits from being a man without having to think about it much.
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