Sherlock Jr is the silent film by shot and acted by Buster Keaton in 1924. It tells a story: after framed as a thief and unsuccessfully to save their reputation in reality, the protagonist becomes the famous detective saves the heroine and penetrates crime in dream. Again back to reality, the heroine finds the truth, and they are happily reunited together. Reality is too skinny, and the dream world is too plump, it may be the majority people’s feeling to these two concepts. In the film, Keaton well develops both perspectives, he also makes them overlap and distinguish in each other. The protagonist wants to be a detective to balance him mind with the unsatisfied reality; however, things turn to different direction, as he can’t…show more content… While the boy gets into the dream world, he chooses the destined road that he doesn’t finish in the reality – recuse the girl and punish the bad guys. In this stage, he is no longer the subject that bullying and incompetent by others, but as he wishes to be the detective. His gorgeous dress conveys his powerful control of the events. Even though the rivals try to set the trap to him as it in the reality and attempted murder him, he smoothly resolves them. Finally, he tactfully rescues the beloved girl. In the dream world, he is the center of everything, and everything caters his needs. He is the liberator of his own world rather than the victims in reality. In other words, people in the realm of the dream are the reference or carrier of his talent. His failure in reality completely disappears. Chase scene is also the important part of the film's main component that shows to audiences the transformation of the protagonist. In reality, the boy fails to shadow the rival for the truth and his reputation reminds humiliated. Yet in the realm of the dream, the result of the chase scenes is completely different. The first chase scene of motorcycle emphasizes the urgency of the time that whether the detective can lift the girl out of the danger. And later the car chase is central on whether they can escape from the opponent pursuit. Until this point, the chase scenes provide a new way to bring the lens together, and make a logical order of story
