Sherlock Holmes gets a taste of his own analysis, and dishes it to him in a scene when Editha, the tea-room proprietor, and undercover feminist as she threw these words to him.

“You don’t know what it is to be without power. Politics doesn’t interest you because you have no interest in changing a world that suits you so well.”

Women empowerment is an overstatement in describing this Netfix film, though it tackles how women is changing the world beyond politics. The plot centers on Enola’s rescue of a foppish young lord whose life is in danger. Aware of all the dangers, Elona Holmes must keep the boy alive because his vote is key in passing the Reform Act in the House of Lords, which will pave the way for women’s suffrage.

Comparing that to the recent Disney’s Mulan…Again, our protagonist doesn’t accept her allotted role in society and, again, she rescues a powerful man, the emperor. Except Mulan is really preserving the very system that discriminates against her. As with so many movies, Mulan’s victory is on a personal scale. Don’t change the world, just change yourself. And for most Disney princesses, simply staying alive and marrying the prince was reward enough. But the idea of a young woman possessing the power to bring down the system is becoming more pervasive. Recently we have had revolutionary protagonists such as Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games, Shailene Woodley in Divergent.

Do children raised on these stories grow up to change the world? Hmmm…

In the meantime, we do have a real-life revolutionary role model: Greta Thunberg. “Everything I’ve experienced over these last few months is like being in a dream, or a movie,” the teen activist says in new documentary I Am Greta. As a disempowered kid with an interest in changing a world that doesn’t suit her, she has more in common with Enola Holmes than you’d think – though perhaps minus the jiu-jitsu skills.