What is a heinous sin, and what is a well-deserved sin

Lola 2022-04-23 07:02:34

I remember watching this movie when I was a child, and the scene where the twelve people took turns cutting knives lingered in my head. I didn't understand reasoning, and I didn't watch Christie. The impression is more of the elegant and decadent British life and the chattering mastermind behind the scenes.
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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Extended Reading
  • Kole 2021-12-21 08:01:17

    Slightly lacking some depth, but I have to say that the reasoning logic of the male protagonist is too strong and uncultured, and these flaws cannot be found.

  • John 2022-03-24 09:02:12

    Cameras are often placed behind Finney to film him questioning suspects. The auxiliary light hit the back of his head, it was shiny and watery and black as paint. He is not good at learning English in a legal accent, and he is not as good as Branagh, but he is reliable in questioning and reasoning, which is like a Polo. The most impressive is Princess Longguofu, the old lady Cunning Hui Shen Yin directly reminded people of Agatha, who was in her 80s at that time in a wheelchair. She is the soul of the film.

Murder on the Orient Express quotes

  • Colonel Arbuthnott: Are you suggesting that I'm fool enough to have entered Ratchett's cabin, murdered him, cleaned my "peep" and dropped it in the ashtray before leaving?

    Hercule Poirot: No, Colonel Arbuthnott.

  • Mrs. Hubbard: For my daughter... and my granddaughter.

    Colonel Arbuthnott: In memory of Colonel Armstrong, a great soldier... and an even greater friend.

    Mary Debenham: And for Mrs. Armstrong - they took me into their home and their hearts.

    Greta Ohlsson: For their Daisy, and mine. God forgive me.

    Countess Andrenyi: For my... my sister and my niece.

    Countess Andrenyi: Cassetti... for the grief you brought to my beloved wife.