"No matter what people say, it's either right or wrong, there's no gray area."
Book Background: Murder on the Orient Express is a novel by the British author Agatha. Detective fiction by Christie.
I haven't had time to read the original book yet, so today I'm going to follow the 2017 film adaptation.
Core protagonist: Great Detective Hechuri. Poirot (Inspector Poirot, a Belgian, is obsessive-compulsive and believes that everyone in the world needs to follow the principle of balance.
For example, if he steps on the dog's excrement with one foot, he must let the other foot also step on it, so that his psychology will feel balanced. ）
Film and television background: The famous Inspector Poloin had an opportunity to take a ride on the Orient Express, where 16 people, including the Inspector, gathered in the carriage.
One of the passengers, Reichett (Johnny. Depp) finds Inspector Poirot and asks for protection, but Inspector Poirot is disdainful of being with such people and refuses to do so.
As a result, that night, Rechte was stabbed to death in his carriage. Detective Poirot, persuaded by his old friend Booker (who was a friend of Inspector Poirot's elders and had no interest in the case, so he was innocent and assisted Inspector Poirot in handling the case), decided to investigate the case.
Reichett (Johnny. Depp)
In the investigation of this case, a case involving many years ago, the Colonel Armstrong Massacre, was found to be the deceased, Richett (Johnny. Depp) is the mastermind of the massacre that year.
Reichett (Johnny. Depp) places the charges on the maid of the Armstrong family, evades the law herself, and becomes a successful businessman.
Under the stripping of the cocoon, the inspector gradually found that the 12 people in the carriage all had deep or shallow relations with the Armstrong family, so who among the 12 people was the murderer?
Armstrong Massacre: Reichett (Johnny. Depp) kidnapped Armstrong's children and gave them a ransom, but Rechte killed the children anyway, and the Armstrongs were under pressure and died one after another.
part 1
Each of the 12 people who are pregnant with a ghost fetus gathers in the carriage, so who is the murderer of the remaining 12 people?
Aside from Inspector Poirot and Poirot's old friend Booker, there were 12 people in the carriage, or 12 suspects.
Apparent Identity: Geography Teacher Mary – Actual Identity: Once a tutor at armstrong's house
2. Apparent Identity: Dr. Abasnott (combining the characters of "Dr. Constantine" and "Colonel Abasnott" in the original book) – Actual Identity: Friends with Colonel Armstrong
3. Apparent Identity: Reichett's secretary and translator, Hector McQueen – Real Identity: The son of the prosecutor who tried the Armstrong massacre (committed suicide because the prosecutor failed to find the real killer and was condemned by his conscience. ）
4. Apparent Identity: Reichett's personal British maid Edward Mastersman – Real Identity: A servant of the Armstrong family
5. Apparent Identity: Mrs. Hubbard who likes to pursue love – Actual identity: Armstrong's mother-in-law
6. Apparent Identity: Princess Dragomirov – Actual Identity: Godmother of Armstrong's children
7. Apparent Identity: Hildegard Schmidt, the Princess's personal maid – Actual Identity: Chef at Armstrong's house
8. Apparent Identity: Spanish Missionary Greta Olsen – Actual Identity: Nanny of the Armstrong family
9. Apparent Identity: Italian car salesman Marquez – Real Identity: Driver of armstrong's house
10. Apparent Identity: American Detective Gerhard Hardman – Real Identity: The lover of the maid who was wronged as a murderer
11. Apparent Identity: Pierre Michel, a car attendant – actual identity: the younger brother of a wronged maid
12. Apparent Identity: Diplomat Countess André – Actual Identity: Sister of Armstam Stanlang's wife
13. Another is the diplomat, Count André, but he is not directly related to the Armstrong family, he is just the brother-in-law of Armstrong's wife.
12 knife wounds, the depth of the wounds is different, the way of insertion is also different, some are left-handed stabbing, some are right-handed stabbing. therefore......
part 2
The two murders are tied together, who is the murderer? Or who are they?
Apparently, as Inspector Poirot found out the actual identities behind the 12 men, the case was solved. It is these 12 people who personally blade the enemy with one knife at a time.
But the truth surfaced, but Inspector Poirot was caught up in the most difficult problem of his life:
The truth of the matter, to say or not to say? The murderer's accusations, do you do it or don't do it?
Poirot, a great detective who has always liked to pursue truth and justice, fell into thinking: in the end, he decided to let go of these 12 murderers, and this case needs not the so-called truth, but conscience and justice.
part 3
Is the justice in front of you really justice? Is the murderer in front of you really the murderer?
You see Reichert, he's a businessman, maybe he's going to do all the bad things for the sake of profit.
But there is no evidence that he once sought wealth and killed people, killing the happiness of an entire family. Based on this, he was also brutally murdered. Isn't this him in front of you a victim?
The 12 murderers in front of you, with a common hatred for one person, joined forces to kill Reichett and cover up the truth of the murder from each other. Based on this, are they not the perpetrators in front of you?
In fact, Ratchet is a heinous murderer and a fish that slipped through the net under the law. But no one can punish him, allowing the truth to be hidden in time. Isn't he the murderer?
The actual 12 murderers, either Armstrong's relatives or the Grace of the Armstrong family, are not willing to let the truth be buried in the ground, they can only carry out justice themselves. Are they also murderers?
Is it justice to reveal that these 12 people are all murderers? Is it justice to allow them to avenge the murderer Reichert?
The world is really complex, so complex that it's hard for you to judge what's true or false in history!
The justice in front of you may not be justice, and the murderer in front of you may not be the murderer!
Don't rely too much on your eyes, trust your head.
part 4
There really is no absolute black and white in this world, good and evil
When we were young, when we studied antonyms, we always felt that the world was actually very simple, like Tai Chi, black and white, like fairy tales, not good and evil, and as beautiful and ugly as in front of us.
As we get older, we discover that the world is not at all what we thought.
It turns out that the largest area in the world is actually a gray area, which often covers your eyes.
You can't really judge this world, you can only look at it dialectically.
Conscience is the best tool of judgment, is it consistent with conscience for any person, anything, or any action?
part 5
The care of good people is always thought of, and the hatred of bad people is remembered
The same is remembered, one is full of love, one is full of hate.
In addition to being relatives of the Armstrong family, the 12 suspects are more outsiders. They may be drivers, they may be nannies, they may be cooks, they may be governesses.
Because of conscience, because of gratitude, this group of good people, desperate to do, took up the knife.
The side reflects the kindness of the Armstrong family, and the good people deserve to be remembered by everyone!
On the contrary, Ratchett, the man who broke the Armstrong family, made everyone who had a friendship with the Armstrong family hate him to the bone. Planning for many years, hiding around for a long time, waiting for the moment of revenge.
Bad people do evil, and people grit their teeth and remember them at all times.
Do not act with good and small, and do not do with evil.
part 6
Conclusion
Ratchet, the man who had lost his conscience, killed himself, his long-lost conscience and humanity. There were no other murderers.
These 12 people, do you think they really killed Ratchet? No. What they kill is their own inner nightmare, what they kill is their inner hatred, and what they kill is the fish that slip through the net of the law.
Only this knife in their hands can exchange their inner peace and fight for the last trace of fairness and justice left behind in this world.
The final judgment scene is like the "Last Supper"
Did Inspector Poirot, who had always liked to be balanced, really accept the imbalance? No, at the end of the film, he reminds the man as always to tidy up his tie.
However, he began to understand that some things in this world can be balanced and fair, and some things cannot be.
The success of "Murder on the Orient Express", in addition to depicting a detective process with wonderful conclusions, has achieved an excellent detective novel with rigorous logic, but more importantly, this plot is close to human nature, writing a gray area between good and evil. Makes people think!
A closed carriage, 16 people, each pregnant with a ghost fetus, who is the victim and who is the perpetrator?
This movie is really wonderful and worth watching!
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