At only 44 minutes, Sherlock Jr. could be classified as either a short or a feature film. Despite running short in minutes, this Buster Keaton feature runs long with imagination. Keaton plays a downtrodden movie projectionist, hoping to win the heart of a girl, while also aspiring to become a detective. His luck in his waking life takes a downturn, but he reinvents himself during a dream. From this point, Sherlock Jr. achieves more than one instance of movie magic, in a literal sense. Keaton approaches surrealism with one expertly crafted illusion after another. When the dreaming projectionist walks through the screen into the movie universe, Keaton seemed to express his own desire that his films might speak directly to the human imagination.
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