This Orient Express was full of depression from the very beginning, and the shadow of sin was entangled in everyone's heart. Like a venomous snake that chooses and devours people, it is full of malicious provocation towards the pure and beautiful Eva.
At the beginning of the film, it was Detective Poirot's aggressive questioning and accusations. The lieutenant's lies caused his comrades and his wife to suffer honorary insults and put his corps in trouble... However, with the accusations, the more and more exciting background music came out. The moment the lieutenant killed himself at gunpoint was over.
All right and wrong, truth and lies, settled in a single shot.
Poirot, who was about to leave, said goodbye to his lieutenant friend on board. The lieutenant friend couldn't help but say more, whether it was unfair to end up like this because of a mistake. He was a good man, but he was involved in an accident.
Poirot, however, felt that the matter did not necessarily end in suicide for the lieutenant, and the lieutenant's friend only murmured.
Maybe he just had no choice.
However, as Poirot concluded at the moment -
"a man like your friend always has many choices, but it is he who chooses to lie that puts him in the predicament of breaking the law".
The people in this car have many choices, but they all chose a path full of pain, and chose deception and lies. Since then, they have been in trouble, with sins and unforgivable.
At the beginning of the plot, the lieutenant who committed suicide because of lying, and the Muslim woman who was stoned for illicit affairs—knowing the bitter consequences, still violated the taboo.
A rare train that is just full, a lady who insists on refusing unplanned people to board, a tutor who is paralyzed on the right side and deeply indignant at her inability to do anything about justice, an American businessman who begs God for forgiveness, absolutely upholds justice and law, but is vaguely self-conscious. The responsible detective, the missionary lady who reacted strangely to Mr. detective's arrival, the duchess's maid who are particularly proficient and demanding in the requirements of meals...
After the preparations were laid, a deliberate bloody trial began.
The charm of suspense drama is that only when all the truth is finally clear and then look back, can you discover the subtle weirdness hidden in the beginning of the movie.
It is also that only when you watch it again after the final clarity, you will feel that there are hidden secrets everywhere.
Five years ago, he kidnapped and killed the little girl Daisy, which indirectly led to a series of tragedies. Cassidy, the murderer who escaped from the law by using his connections, suddenly woke up and set foot on this train of redemption. However, the close friends and relatives of the victims They were not willing to forgive him for the sins he had committed.
Detective Poirot, who had just dealt with the lieutenant's case, unexpectedly boarded the train at the warm invitation of the train supervisor, becoming the unplanned extra person.
A hodgepodge of international trains, full of people's priorities, embarked on its intended ending on this cold and snowy night.
People always like to explain themselves to what God has done, as the murderer Cassidy thinks, God is a backup gun that brings him extra protection and can be forgiven by repayment; as Miss Missionary said. believe that the Catholic faith is all wrong because there are some sins that God will never forgive.
What is God thinking?
They all found justification for their actions, in the name of God.
But there seems to be a will of God in the dark.
Even if Cassidy, who committed a serious crime five years ago, escaped the legal net, he still could not escape the deliberate revenge of the heartbroken; the perfect murder carefully planned by the jury met the nemesis - the detective, but also because the train accidentally hit The snowdrift is forced to stop, and a huge flaw occurs; Detective Poirot, who accidentally boarded the train, is caught in the same predicament as the lieutenant he accuses, and perfect justice is broken.
Law and human feelings, an eternally contradictory proposition.
When grievances cannot be redressed, people always complain about the injustice and incompetence of God, unable to seek justice and judgment for the kind and innocent people, complaining about the omissions of the law, unable to pay blood debts in blood, and the violent resentment in their hearts .
Murder is a sin, and revenge murder is still a sin, but it has one more sympathetic reason than the former.
The jurisprudence is still strict with the rule of law, the benevolent sees benevolence, and the wise sees wisdom.
As the tutor said, Jesus said, "Let the innocent throw the first stone." They were all innocents, so they threw the stones in their hands, and in the name of justice, turned them into The sharp dagger fell fiercely towards the murderer's chest.
After all the truth is revealed, it is the pain and contradiction that everyone has endured. Just as the tutor said, when you are rejected by justice, it is like being abandoned by God, and your life will never be complete.
Those grievances piled up in the chest, unable to vent, helpless, like being in hell, suffering. The means of revenge may be savage or wrong, but after all, an exit has been sought for it, even if this exit also leads to another hell.
Poirot then asked the tutor if your life was now complete again.
The tutor only said that at least she did the right thing.
Is it the right thing, or is it the right thing to do?
Hot feelings are always more provocative and demagogic than cold laws.
At the end of the film, Poirot chooses to cover the murderer with the white cloth that symbolizes death, covering his eyes that seem to have a thousand words to tell.
He walked out slowly, turning his back to everyone, to those ecstasy and silence, unwilling and unbearable, clutching his rosary tightly with tears in his eyes.
This is a painful and forbearing choice, forever breaking up with the perfect justice in my heart, denying God's mercy and justice as a devout Catholic, and defining him a sin that will never be forgiven.
Since then, he has been the same as the lied lieutenant, the fornicating Muslim woman, the Cassidy who kidnapped and murdered, and the "jury" who murdered in revenge - knowing the bitter consequences, but still breaking taboos.
Depression, anger, sadness and helplessness.
Is it fair?
Just because of an accident, Poirot boarded this train, because of a choice that may be wrong or right, and will be forever sinful and contrary to faith.
He's a good guy, just got caught up in the accident.
But as he himself said at the beginning—
"A guy like your friend always has a lot of options, but it's his choice to lie that gets him into the predicament of breaking the law."
Also as the Captain's friend said, maybe, just have no choice.
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