"The Girl on the Train" is adapted from the novel of the same name by British female writer Paula Hawkins, the story of the novel is moved from London to New York in the film, directed by Tate Taylor, director of "Help", and actors Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson and Hayley Bennett play three female characters.
Excluding the thrilling and suspenseful part of the plot, what "Girl on the Train" wants to present is actually the same as "Mutual Help" on the issue of women, even if the time and space background has been greatly different, but today's women, whether in emotions, marriage, family, social roles, or by the omnipresent patriarchy, and the limitation of women may not only be "sand pigs" men, but also more likely to be women themselves who have been immersed in the patriarchal ideological country since birth and have been imperceptibly imperceptibly.
In terms of plot arrangement, the previously cut paragraphs allow the three female characters to narrate in the first person, so that the audience can understand the background and personality of the characters, and leave suspense factors with the differences in narrative views.
Finally, it is back to Rachel, played by the protagonist Emily Blunt, and gradually solve the mystery. Judging from the ending of the movie, the choreographer actually deliberately guides the audience to infer in the wrong direction, although it seems to leave clues everywhere, but the clues are not deeply related to the results.
Fortunately, the first three-quarters of the plot rhythm is properly mastered, and the constant flashbacks also keep the film in a highly suspenseful atmosphere, so that at least the viewers will not feel bored until the truth is revealed.
Coupled with Hayley Bennett's cold but charismatic mystery of Megan's character, the bold nudity and erotic provocative eye performance that is barely revealed is also amazing enough.
The reversal of the final result was a little abrupt to me, but the revenge after the reversal made the theme of "The Girl on the Train" more prominent.
The three female characters in the film, whether tangible or intangible, spiritually or physically, are actually limited and oppressed by male characters. What is shown in the first part of the film is that women are bound by men in any way, or by society as a whole.
Rachel paralyzes herself with alcohol because she cannot have children, Megan is afraid to have children because of her unexpected past, and even if she has a child, Anna, she also loses her self and original brilliance because she is afraid of losing her child.
The matter of childbirth, which should have been a wonderful gift of life, has become the dream and pressure of these three protagonists and even many women in the world. In today's increasingly high feminist and valued, is such a bondage a legacy of a long-standing patriarchal society? Or is it just that the women themselves have not figured it out?
Of course, with David Finch's "Disappearing Lover" in front, it is difficult to lose the color of such a suspenseful, thrilling and feminist-related movie, "The Girl on the Train" has some flavor, but on the layout, on the scheduling, probably can only have the seven components of "The Disappearing Lover".
In terms of acting, although Emily Blunt, who is so malleable, drunk and confused for most of the movie, there is really no impressive scene compared to Amy, who will never be forgotten in "The Disappearing Lover".
In fact, Emily Blunt's acting skills should be better than Rosamand Pike (Pei Chunhua), and director David Finch's ability to tune actors or arrange movies is admirable (has no one noticed how Ben Affleck and Rosamand Pike's acting skills in "Gone Lover" suddenly improved?). ）。