A failed debate between populism and the rule of law

Gideon 2022-04-23 07:04:57

This film pays homage to the 74th version of "Murder on the Orient Express" (farewell on the title board), and restores Shapo's original work in some processing (open car windows and slow spelling of the Armstrong incident), but the main theme of the film is It is based on Shapo's text on the "grey border between populism and the rule of law" (if the law cannot make victims justice, then whether to take lynching), and then use the text as a shell in the opening of "lynching" and "military officers", This theme is expressed in three parts: religious justice (the debate between Catholicism and Christianity) in the middle part and the debate between religion and the rule of law at the end. It has to be said that such an adaptation has its social value, but if this value is based on the condensation of the reasoning process of the film and the confusion in the reasoning expression (the analysis of the character relationship and the description of the details of the case are sloppy and confusing, except for the "cooking lady" part The design is better than the 74 version, and most of them have become a deduction point for the comparison), then it is divorced from the essence of a detective movie (about a complete and logically clear reasoning and solving process), all social speculations are Castle in the sky. And at the end, the surrender of the rule of law with doctrines is the failure of this speculation. PS: The ending of this film should be the inspiration for the cover of "Murder on the Orient Express" published by Nova Press.

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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]