Law or Humanity

Clemmie 2022-04-22 07:01:54

After watching it, I found that this is not a movie that is very in line with the modern people's pursuit of reverse suspense detective type, but if it is placed in the era of the novel, this should be a very great reasoning, the whole process of the case and the motive for the murder are shocking enough , but for us who have watched too many complex crimes and suspenseful content, it may not be so novel and attractive. Maybe the point of the movie is not to let the audience feel the complex murder process restoration, but to let the audience feel the complex murder process. This detective’s perspective sees many details. For example, different people choose different locations and different ways to ask questions. The woman who was a geography teacher and someone related to the Armstrong case can use these details to restore the motive for the crime. Maybe It's not that hard to guess and exciting, but at the end of the film, we see Poirot's loneliness, and the fact that he is no longer the one in the opening scene where one foot stepped on the dirt, in order to balance the pursuit of rationality and the other foot dirty. A balanced person, judging from his compromise in jurisprudence and ethics, things in the world are not just two kinds of right and wrong...

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Murder on the Orient Express quotes

  • Mary Debenham: You said of the woman in Istanbul that she knew the rules of her culture and knew what breaking them would mean. So did Cassetti.

    Hercule Poirot: [harshly] And so do you!

    Mary Debenham: When you've been denied justice... you are incomplete. It feels that God has abandoned you in a stark place. I asked God... I think we all did... what we should do, and he said do what is right. And I thought if I did, it would make me complete again.

    Hercule Poirot: [coldly] And are you?

    Mary Debenham: [long pause, then] But I did what was right.

  • Lieutenant Blanchflower: If I may speak out of turn, sir... I think it unjust that one mistake cost Lieutenant Morris so dearly. He was a good man... who was involved in an accident.

    Hercule Poirot: [turns to face him] Unjust?

    Lieutenant Blanchflower: He made an error of judgement. He was a good man.

    Hercule Poirot: It did not have to end in suicide.

    Lieutenant Blanchflower: I think he believed he had no choice.

    Hercule Poirot: A man like your friend, Lieutenant, always has choice, and it was his choice to lie that brought him into difficulty with the law.

    [He turns away]