The "Murder on the New Orient Express" filmed in 2010 has a relatively large innovation in narrative perspective and shooting techniques.
Compared with the 74 version, the reasoning and plot are relatively weakened, and it is not limited to the reasoning of "who is the murderer". The film is extended from the original work and is intended to discuss issues of justice and legality.
It is said that before the shooting of the new version, Grandma's granddaughter deliberately communicated with the starring David Suchet, hoping that this version will play Poirot more seriously.
David Suchet, perhaps best known for his role as Agatha Christie's great detective Hercule Poirot.
As a reader who grew up reading Grandma's books, after watching the thirteen seasons of "The Great Detective Poirot" starring him, his excellent acting skills have made people naturally regard him as Grandma's Poirot.
On the fast-moving train, a person was found dead of murder, and the murderer was the twelve Avengers in the carriage. It turned out that the deceased had kidnapped and brutally killed a little girl.
Twelve men formed a jury of their own to kill the notorious demon with one knife each.
In the original novel, detective Poirot saw through the truth, offered a solution, and covered each other with the director and the forensic doctor, helping the twelve escape the punishment of the law.
The 74 version of the film is also faithful to the original, and just as the Avengers are uneasy, Poirot proposes a second hypothesis for them, covering up the truth of the matter.
And at the end of the 2010 version of Murder on the New Orient Express, Poirot was initially determined to make the Twelve's crimes public.
Poirot: "You people, you set up private courts and blaspheme justice. You have no right to put the law in your hands."
One of the twelve: "Mr. Poirot, she is only five years old. We are all good and civilized citizens. When the devil comes, we look to the law for justice. And the law fails us.”
Poirot: "No. Aren't you street savages like this. You're both a jury and an executioner. Isn't this a return to the Middle Ages. The spirit of the rule of law must be above all else. Even if it is unfair, You should also regain your confidence. If the legal system is destroyed, the entire society, the entire civilized world... will have nowhere to live."
Perhaps due to the different eras, the legal system has gradually improved, and the 2010 version of the film tends to portray Poirot as More respect for the law, another angle of the director and screenwriter makes the gist of the whole play more profound, thus causing the audience to think.
Poirot's words are very similar to the story of the death of Socrates. After Socrates was convicted, his student Cleton had opened up all the joints for him, allowing him to escape from prison. And persuaded him that it was unjust to convict him.
Socrates said: Suppose, as we were about to flee from here, the Athenian constitution and laws appeared before our eyes and questioned us: If a decree of a law enacted had no effect, but could be undone and trampled upon by individuals, can you imagine this Can the city-state survive and be unharmed? I was convicted by the state, and if I escaped and the law was not obeyed, it would lose its due force and authority. When the law loses its authority, justice ceases to exist. "
Socrates chose to go to the execution ground generously, seeing death as his home. He defended the authority of the law with his own life, even if the judgment was wrong.
Only when the law establishes authority can there be national order and social justice . Only the
citizens can be protected by the rule of law. One
side is the law, and the other side is justice.
The law maintains the social order, and the authority of the law is unquestionable.
But if justice is not treated fairly by the law, how should it be released.
But when the situation and the law conflict with each other, how to choose.
A cruel The murderer of the 3-year-old child, the law let him go unpunished, should the twelve raise the knife of justice and stab the devil in the heart.
"What if God doesn't deal with it? What if he sent those victims to hell on earth? What if priests, in the name of God, forgive sins that should never be forgiven? Jesus said: Let those who are without sin throw the first stone, we are all sinless. "
The Twelve asked Poirot, as well as the audience.
The sinless man, the first stone was thrown, and the knife stabbed the devil in the name of justice.
And this has created a new problem. The revenge of the twelve people has made each of them stained with the blood of the devil. Killing people is an inextinguishable shadow in their hearts.
"God knows how hard it will be for us to bear Cassetti's death for the rest of our lives."
The vengeance has been avenged, and then what?
One of the twelve said: "When you are denied justice, you are incomplete, you feel like you are left in the wilderness by God, I asked God what exactly we should do, and he said: Do it right I think that's what I am, and that makes me whole again."
Poirot looked at the lady: "Is that so?"
Notice that the lady did not answer directly, not firmly saying "Yes, I am whole again. , I have been redeemed by God..." On the
contrary, she lowered her head slightly, the corners of her mouth twitched slowly, her eyes filled with tears, and she said, "At least I did the right thing." The
director used this bridge to explain, even if The devil is dead, but the hands of the twelve are stained with blood, and their hearts cannot be peaceful.
And when the devil falls, what should the twelve do? To be judged or to be forgiven.
When Poirot was very determined to reveal the truth to the public, the twelve said,
"You can't help the tyrants, so aren't you the same as the criminals in court?"
Even the director said, "They're not wrong, the devil should be damned, they They are all good people."
When goodness is not treated correctly,
when sin is not punished,
when justice and the rule of law conflict, what should we do?
Poirot was entangled between revealing the truth and covering up.
David Suchet portrayed Poirot in detail at this time, and every expression revealed unspeakable words.
He was wandering between love and law, the coffee in his hand was steaming, and the snow was flying outside the car. The gloomy picture made people feel a little chill.
Poirot held the cross tightly in his left hand, his expression was solemn, and the smoke lit against the loneliness, he was a devout Catholic believer, a cruel devil, was killed by a group of innocent people, is it a just act, if it is God , will choose to forgive them?
At this moment, when justice and the legal system deviate, where should the balance in my heart be tilted?
It was snowing outside the train. Poirot wrapped his coat tightly and slowly passed through the twelve people who were about to be tried. He looked ahead and went straight to the sheriff. He finally chose reason and justice, and helped the twelve to cover up. the truth.
Poirot looked back at the twelve, and the twelve looked at Poirot, without a word, but with a thousand words, the snow seemed to freeze at that moment.
At the end of the film, Poirot stumbles alone in the wind and snow, holding the cross tightly in his hands... His face is heavy, a kind of choked with tears.
The film came to an end, which made people feel endlessly emotional. Poirot's final expression turned in his heart. This may be the director's ultimate goal, using a different method to make the audience pay more attention to the issues of love and law in addition to reasoning.
The final outcome is to choose to be loyal to the original work, which is also more in line with Kohlberg's moral theory method. At the highest level of universal ethical orientation, it is guided by the values of life and the ethical principles of justice, fairness, equality, dignity, etc. Think for the standard, justice is higher than the law. Thinking and judging not from specific moral principles, but from the essence of morality.
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