Movie notes:
1. The deceased: Mrs. Alice Lubo:
Died just after four o'clock
Troy Insurance Company of London
2. Sir Horace Blatter (a millionaire who buys diamonds), mustache
In the statement, it was mentioned that a woman met in New York, a singer and dance troupe, an actor, was deceived, and asked her to reply three weeks ago, and only a week later, "I am not being taken advantage of." Three days later, she will come to Dafanie.
Arrived at the hotel after the incident, the fake diamond appeared in the cave and admitted that she had seen the actress. At that time, the actress was about to reach the shore and promised to discuss it in the evening.
Rebuttal: other sailors will see
3. Patrick Redfern (the romantic handsome guy):
Mistress
Go out with the producer’s wife after seeing the boat with the key
Shortly after 12 o’clock, the guy and the producer’s wife arrived and found the actress was dead and strangled to death. The female producer went back and the guy stayed.
4. Mrs. Christina Redfern (poor wife) has teeth
I'm not in good health, I should know that my husband is flirting
Tell the detective about dizziness
Arguing with the guy that night about the actress
Find your daughter to paint together
See you at 12:30 tennis, take my daughter away
I am going back at 11:55, the time my daughter told me
I beckoned to Linda from the heights, heard the sound of guns, turned around to catch the tennis at 12:30, changed clothes, father, proprietress, and producer were already there, 12:34
5. Rex Brewster (columnist), thin, big black eyes
Knowing many things about the actress, buying news, the actress is unwilling to help him publish in order not to make a fool of yourself
Writer 11:30-12:00 on board
It takes two hours for Ladziwan to go around the island to Haigull Island, and I arrived at Haigull Island at 12 o’clock to see my daughter.
Said someone framed him, someone threw a bottle from the cliff
6. Mrs. Daphne Casseau (hotel proprietress) coquettish proprietress
The actress and the actress are both from a singing and dancing troupe, "the splits are also more open" is ironic
Saw the actress flirting with the guy
Tell the detective that his friend will be one day late
Knowing that my daughter was bullied by an actress, I talked to my father
Implying father, the boy was invited by the actress
"Separated until death" said to his father
The lady boss saw the actress come to drive her daughter away with concern, (Could the lady boss be the ex-wife?)
When comforting my daughter, he said, "Everything has retribution, you can wait."
Come back to the meeting at 11:30 and arrange to play tennis at 12:30
The proprietress (big brimmed hat, rainbow lining, sunglasses) saw dead rabbits on the mountain and the actress on the beach
Jazz and actress were seen arguing around 11:15
I saw someone on the stone bench during the meeting
7. Odell Gardner (drama producer) The Eight-character Hu
Investing in drama has to be sought by actresses
I saw the actress go out on a boat
Secretly saw the wife and daughter going up the mountain
11-12:15 On the stone bench, there was no one to prove, no one was ringing the bell when he went back, there was no water in the bath, and there was someone taking a bath downstairs. I changed my clothes and went to play. I arrived at the tennis court at 12:30. The proprietress and father were already there.
8. Mrs. Myra Gardner (theatrical producer) golden curly hair and big nostrils
I'm a bit angry that the drama depends on the actress's reputation
Cost 20,000 for a fake doctor's certificate
Saw the actress go out on a boat
Cousin thought about being locked up in a lunatic asylum
9. Mrs. Alina Marshall (popular actress), brown hair, bitter look
The bracelet, it was the affair with the guy
Around 10:20 ask to go out by boat alone, let the detective push it, don’t tell anyone, it seems to be waiting for someone
10. Kenneth Marshall (suffocating husband) has white hair:
Three years ago, I lived in Difenni’s place for a few days. After my ex-wife passed away, I became acquainted with the boss’s wife. The boss said that she hadn’t seen her for about two years and she had never seen her daughter.
Fire at noon, at 12 o'clock
Seeing the actress flirting with others, she probably told her
Knowing that her daughter was bullied by the actress
Don't want to divorce
The actress said that her father had met the guy for the first time in London and said that he was a nice guy. Father denied seeing
Ask the detective if he is swimming, see the actress, and the guy, the guy is still there
He said that he was typing letters in the room from 11 to 12, the detective said that no sound was heard around 11:15. The lady boss said that he saw the father in the mirror typing at the meeting at 11:30. Seeing that the father reflected that the lady boss was lying to help, the lady boss said that the father was typing fast, and the letter was received. 10:30, reply
11. Miss Linda Marshall (daughter of Marshall's late ex-wife):
Doesn't like her stepmother,
Seeing the dialogue between the writer and the actress, flirting with the guy
The actress called her daughter Cinderella
The wife draws the cliff, leaves at 11:55, reminds to wear a swimming cap, wave on the cliff
Denied at first, then admitted to seeing the writer
Objective evidence:
1. Death state: choked, lipstick is sticky, tongue turned out, and finger marks on neck
2. There are big diamonds in the cave
3. The key is to calculate the time of coming and going
My analysis:
Witnesses gave a lot of testimony, and some confirmed each other's content, but there were also details that anyone admitted, such as Poirot's question: Who threw the bottle at noon? 12:15 Who takes a bath?
The contradiction that can be found from the statement is the wife
1. A bottle on the cliff is likely to correspond to the wife of the cliff, but the wife did not admit it
2. The wife said that she would faint when looking down from a high place, but beckoning on the cliff would be okay?
3. As for the bath, I wonder if the wife lives downstairs? But the time is almost the same. After she came back, she arrived at the tennis court at about 12:34 and changed her clothes.
4. When the wife left, she asked Linda girl to wear a swimming cap so that she could not hear the sound of the guns, because when the writer later met the little girl, she could not hear it because of the swimming cap. Linda can also testify to a wife, watch time, and the wife can do tricks when she has time.
Poirot’s analysis:
Key words to solve the case: swimming cap, bath, bottle, watch, diamond, noon cannon, the breath of the ocean, the height of the cliff
It seems that everyone has an alibi in this case.
Dead time 11:30-12:00
The liar is a wife, the reason and deductive evidence :
1. The wife said hello to Linda on the cliff when the gunfire sounded, but Linda met the writer when the gunfire sounded. According to Linda and the wife, both parties responded to the greeting, but the writer's testimony proved that it was not a time.
2. Linda went swimming without a watch. The wife admitted that she had gone to Linda’s room in the morning, and she had the opportunity to provocation for 20 minutes. When she was about to leave, Linda went to swim, adjusted the time and reminded her to wear a hat to prevent the sound of guns from being heard.
3. When leaving on the cliff at 11:40, rush to the crime scene Ladzi Bay for 6 or 7 minutes, about 11:45.
4. Rebutting that dizziness is acting to prove that you can’t walk down the ladder, because you have to lean on the edge of the cliff to see Linda in Seagull Bay
5. The actress once hid in a cave, perfume and diamonds testified, and the wife hit her head with a stone
6. How could the strangled person be smashed? In fact, the trace of the pinch lies in the young man. From 11:30-12:00, the young man has been with the female producer, but he only saw the almost tanned person lying there. But after the boy first found out, he stayed alone.
7. How can a wife with fair skin pretend to be a tanned person? I painted it beforehand, and put on a different dress from the past, covered my whole body, and painted my hands and neck in the cave.
8. On the way back at about 12:05, the colored bottle was thrown away, which was almost smashed by the bottle as the author said.
9. I rushed to the hotel to take a bath at about 12:15, which also explained the problem of lack of water
10. The quarrel is also acting, deliberately by the open window, the first impression of the wife is that she does not exercise well, can't bask in the sun, and pretend to be pitiful. The guy also dared to have an affair openly, not like a cautious lover.
11. The motive is that the guy deceived the actress’ diamonds and dropped them, in order to kill the only person who knew about it.
Poirot pointed out the key identifying evidence:
1. The key identification evidence has not pointed out the signature of the check before leaving for the time being
Felix Lubo was the husband of Alice Lubo. Mrs. Lubo was strangled to death a few months ago. The insurance company had investigated and the husband received a large sum of insurance money. At that time, the husband had an alibi, and the body found by the woman on the hike now wants to be consistent with the method in this case.
No name is left in the hotel signature book, but the signature on the check and the signature on the insurance premium receipt can be compared with the handwriting despite the different names.
2. The conversion between Latin and English proves the connection between the two names
3. Take pictures of the hiking woman and the husband who lost his wife for comparison
4. There are hidden diamonds in the pipe that hasn't been lit since the guy appeared.
The above three points at the beginning are only related, and only the last one is considered ironclad, but it is a bit far-fetched to infer the murder based on the stolen goods.
Simply looking at the key words, comparing my analysis with Poirot’s analysis, the difference lies in the bottle and bathing involved because the wife pretends to be an actress. This is indeed a little uncomprehensible. Since people are already dizzy, why can’t they just put it on the beach? On the other hand, replace the state of death with the state of dizziness, and take the risky and cumbersome method of pretending to be tanned skin with white skin? Maybe it is because you are worried that you will wake up after being fainted, so why not take a more secure approach, such as taking drugs.
Movie experience:
The highlight of the plot of the film lies in the production of alibi and partnership crimes. There are many confusing scenes. Of course, there are also many hidden clues that are not told to the audience, such as time calculations, such as insurance cases, such as between Latin and English. The conversion and so on, but only when the truth is revealed.
This is the third film based on Agatha's novel I watched:
The first one is the classic 1974 version of "Murder on the Orient Express". The excitement is that the murderer is a group, which is more complicated, but there are clues that are only thrown out during the analysis (the cultural stalk explains the letters on the handkerchief);
The second part is the 1979 version of "The Tragedy on the Nile". It is a matter of knowing who the murderer is at a glance. The key is how to explain the crime method, which is also cooperative.
On the whole, after all, separated by age and country differences, in terms of the breadth of cultural knowledge, I will inevitably suffer from flaws. There are many people, and the suspects involved will basically be around eleven or two. Of course, they will design motives, but many motives. It is not important. Of course, as a student of law, the key to solving a case is to look at evidence. Of course, witness testimony is also very important. Finding contradictions between testimonies will be an effective way to locate the murderer. Physical evidence is basically used to confirm speculation. I personally think that the "Murder on the Orient Express" is the most classic, whether it is criminal tactics and criminal motives, whether it is technical or emotional, it will be touched.
Special note: I am not a very professional reasoning fan, and my logic is not very good. I just like watching these kinds of film and television dramas and novels. Everyone is welcome to advise!
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