Although Sherlock on the Plain is a small-budget film, it was released in 2019 to rave reviews and has been highly praised and recommended by numerous film gurus on various social media platforms. The film's unique style, which incorporates various seemingly conflicting elements, is of great learning value both in terms of film text and aesthetic style, and the analysis of various symbols in the film is extremely instructive for the author's personal professional learning. This paper will attempt to analyze the meaning of various symbols in the film from the perspective of symbolic narrative, to understand the director's observation and reflection on the social reality in the film, and to explore the resonance between the Chinese emotion in the rural "earthy" film and the audience.

Shen Kexin. Interpreting the Film "Sherlock on the Plain" from a Semiotic Perspective. Frontiers in Art Research (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 11: 26-31. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2022.041106.

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