Murder on the Orient Express - Legal

Kellie 2022-11-04 07:57:33

This movie did not make me cry, but it is always engraved in my mind. The last scene Poirot walks alone in the heavy snow, you still remember that at the beginning, the train stopped at a On the platform, Poirot got off and said ''It's so cold''. But in the end, walking slowly and alone in the snow, did he feel that he was cold? No.
He doubts what he knows, human nature, what the law is just, the law is tainted, and people kill for the law, or for the law.
The law is like a teacher, teaching us, human nature, teaching us to be kind, to be kind to others. And some things, some people, really follow the intent of the law all the time, no, like there are a few bad students in the class, they resist the teacher, don't do homework for their own happiness, and so on, and so the law Is there a way.
And these people in the film, they used the humanity they learned from the law. To fight against the law, is that right?
These people follow the law and get rid of those who are not allowed by the law. They know that such a person, the law will not be able to do anything, so they make their own claims to kill him, they violated The law, but did they really break the law? . . . .

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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]