Now that I have read the book and rewatched this film, it is like thinking of childhood friends on the other side of the river of time. Think of his little fault and too much fun.
So to say how impossible it is for twelve people to kill in an organized and disciplined round, first of all, the organizer must spend a lot of time and money in that inconvenient era to gather all the relatives of the victims and ensure that they are willing to participate in the event. At the same time, it has many extraordinary abilities such as calmness, reason, flexibility, and boldness. So frenetic and so cold.
The so-called success is to show you the impossible, and let you accept all the tricks while being shocked.
It is worthy of being a classic in Christie's classics, even if it is thorny, the reasons are insignificant. However, the Poirot-style interrogation, which I enjoy very much when reading the book, is a little boring in the film. Forget it, after all, we can’t look at history with the eyes of today’s people.
At the end, there is a bit of a martial arts feeling, punishing evil and promoting good, jumping out of the law, it seems very pleasing, and it does not cater to the concept of reasoning and calendar first. Later, in her work "Death Date", there are also people who are hated by thousands of people, and they also cover up each other, but they are finally given legal reason-although it is a murderer, a bad guy. This is also a kind of thinking about the concept of justice, what is a heinous crime, and what is a sin that deserves it.
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