Free Art Imitates Life Essay Sample

We often read novels and stories or watch movies and see their connection to reality, from which we can depict that art is inspired by the real life. This essay analyzes the movie “Sherlock Holmes” for examining how the movie imitates life by including in its content significant actions, events or facts that illustrate management concepts.
Sherlock Holmes exhibits the character of a self-aware individual, determined by his nature to solve problems, and to motivate others. Therefore, developing self-awareness, solving problems and motivating others are three of the managerial concepts that the movie “Sherlock Holmes” exhibits.
The eponymous hero of the movie, Sherlock Holmes himself, is very self-confident of his detective abilities, but more than this, he relies very much on his physical abilities (as he participates in boxing games), on his intellectual capacities (as he makes assumptions and sustains them with strong and scientific arguments), on his intuition (reading people’s nature by solely looking at them, at their clothing, appearances, and so on, which gives him clues for deducing more about their personalities). As such, the movie “Sherlock Holmes” illustrates an individual who initially appears to be solely aggressive, as he fights in a boxing ring and seems to be losing. Nevertheless, the movie rapidly explores Holmes’ judgment and his self-assessment, as he imagines in several seconds what he can do to his opponent, causing severe physical injuries and also psychical damages. Hence, he is illustrated as he is becoming self-aware of his powers.
Other similar scenes in the movie indicate his self-awareness for solving problems. As such, Holmes is actively involved in research, for investigating the secrets of the so-believed rituals performed by Lord Henry Blackwood, a series murdered who killed five young women and prepared to kill another, and through his research, Sherlock Holmes finds out that actually Blackwood’s new target was to attack and kill the members of the Parliament, by releasing cyanide inside the Parliament. Similarly, the movie exhibits the managerial abilities of Sherlock Holmes to solving problems, when he rescues Irene Alder, his former adversary and a current thief (with whom nevertheless Holmes is in loved with), as she was on the edge of being slaughtered to death, by being turn into pieces in an abattoir. Holmes saved her by analyzing the abattoir’s mechanism, until he understood its functioning principle. He delegated Watson, his assistant and partner to turn off one valve, part of the abattoir mechanism, while he protected Irene from being cut into pieces with his own body and this indicates leadership and team spirit qualities. Moreover, being fully aware of the functioning mechanism of the cutting machine, Holmes stops it right before the cutting machine touched him. This scene is illustrative for all the three managerial concepts discussed in this essay: self-awareness (of his own abilities and power), solving problems and motivating, as Holmes has the ability to influence and determine Watson to follow his precise indications.
The movie presents other scenes that are relevant for the fact that Holmes has the ability of motivating others. Sherlock Holmes takes the police forces by surprise with his advanced judgment, so that they are blurred while facing the events that seem to be abnormal. Nevertheless, Holmes motivates them to do their jobs, indicating them what they should follow and how they should proceed with their activities, helping him also, by providing him support information for further solving the problems.
Therefore, “Sherlock Holmes” movie portrays a skilled manager, with the ability to motivate others, to solving problems by applying thorough research and personal intuition, exhibiting also self-awareness, as the movie indicates how Holmes develops his thinking and epistemological processes.