When foreigners' films talk about the law, they all seem to have some kind of fate with the number 12. The twelve-person "jury" in Murder on the Orient Express reminds me of Twelve Angry Men, maybe in a slightly different direction, but they're all good thinking about where to draw the lines of the law. In the film Poirot quotes Theseus' lines in Act 5, Scene 1 of A Midsummer Night's Dream: "The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. The night clock has struck twelve." Did the two o'clock draw yesterday or today or tomorrow? In this case, perhaps having no boundaries is also the answer.
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