I watched it on TV a long time ago, and I can always hear my mother say how this old movie is. Just like "The Yellow Handkerchief of Happiness," these so-called old movies that were dubbed and translated are familiar to me, but I don't understand the meaning. If I don't pay attention to director Sidney Lumet, it is just a blockbuster star-studded on the surface. It is bound to talk about the original author Agatha Christie. However, I must now notice that the director is Lumet, so the taste of this film suddenly changed. For ordinary viewers, the 12 passengers and flight attendants on the Orient Express collectively conspired to avenge a heinous villain, and they will all clear their hatred in the end. I have also seen comments that the screenwriter has many loopholes, and the film did not provide conclusive evidence that the murdered was the mastermind of the kidnapping case. But I think these are not the main points of director Lumet. Throughout the many films directed by Lumet, the theme is always one-the conflict between individuals and groups. I think "Murder on the Orient Express" should be no exception. What makes me feel fresh is that Director Lumet has abandoned the realism style this time. Even if the culprit deserves the crime, the 12-person murder syndicate is nothing but violence against violence. This is not in line with the law of a society under the rule of law. The detective had a keen eye on the whole case, but in the end he had to leave silently. This is not a contest between justice and injustice, justice and injustice, but a contest between individuals and groups. The detective knew that he was powerless to fight the murder group. After that, the Yugoslav police intervened and would inevitably follow a simple plan in order to save trouble. The reason why the police can be lazy is that the victim deserves the crime. A wise and shrewd detective, based on the principle of truth and justice, can only face the sorrow of the individual at this time. As Le Pen said in "The Mob": under the effect of the simplification of ideas, anyone who is skeptical and believes that it is extremely difficult to find "deterministic truth" on political and social issues, especially a person accustomed to A person who uses reasoning and discussion to explain the problem has no place in the group; when faced with exciting public sentiment, he will especially feel pale and weak, because he realizes that he is going to fight against more than just A wrong behavior, there is the "power of the majority", and the paranoid attitude when implementing this behavior. We can better understand that the so-called professional elites, no matter how strong their intelligence is, their rational efforts to explain their pros and cons, and when faced with a group that has been dazzled by empty concepts, they will feel very pedantic and boring.
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