When we review a great film based on a novel, there is always a debate about whether the novel made the film or the film. The novel became popular. As a result of this film, my opinion is that Agatha Christie provided an unparalleled original script, and Billy Wilder made it a perfect video. Of course, there are also excellent performances by a group of actors. Marlene Dietrich with neutral charm, short-tempered English gentleman Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power from the beginning seems to be ignorant and sunny, to the innocent look on his face after the trial becomes more and more unfavorable to him, and finally escapes the law After the punishment, the real face is exposed, and the whole way is full of subversive perfect performance! Of course, can't forget the nurse Plimsool who is always wordy.)
: Throughout the movie, Billy Wilder did not miss the British For example, no matter how fierce the arguments in court are, the prosecutor and defense lawyer call each other "Learned Your Excellency". For example, lawyer Wilfrid is very considerate and asks his subordinates to take good care of the accused. Wife. (Because the other party is a foreigner, it is easy to be hysterical, and more because the other party is a woman), but what they see is a stronger "she" than them. For example, the director used the mouth of the woman who provided key evidence and said: "If you take off your wig, you won't be able to recognize you, but you are beautiful without a wig."
For most of the movie watching, I was always plagued by these questions, did the defendant Leonard really not know that the old lady was leaving him with £70,000? Why did his wife Christine get it in her first appearance? Say something bad to her husband? But she still seems to have a lot of affection for her current "husband" (isn't my husband really hopeless). Regarding the first point, I think I am impressed by Tyrone Power's excellent Acting is deceived. (How can a guy who is so naive and stupid?!) Regarding the second question, "Because the wife's testimony in favor of her husband will not be accepted by the jury, the United Kingdom At the same time, the law also does not allow the wife to testify against her husband, so she made up the fact that she had a legitimate husband before, and changed it to be a witness for the public prosecutor, but she also played a woman who provided evidence to the lawyer in favor of her husband. Plots like this! Queen of detective novels, terrifying!
About the ending: Before the ending was finally revealed, I was wondering why Agatha Christie would let the murderer get away with it, (in any Agatha Christie novel or film adaptation I've read, This has never happened before.) But I was wrong again,
Christine felt that all the love she gave for it was in vain, and she killed her husband in anger.. Damn dude finally died Christine won't escape the law The punishment, I think, the idea that the movie wants to express is that the woman is always in the emotionally weak position. (Even if she is a femme fatale) Of course, at the same time, the bad guys always have bad rewards.
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