marvelous agatha

Garland 2022-02-07 15:00:01

Agatha is an amazing woman, her logic, her eccentricity, has reached an amazing level. It's not hard to imagine why Queen Elizabeth bestowed her title for her work.
I remember the summer vacation of my senior year of high school and my dad watching the Detective Polo series on the computer every night. Poirot was a short, stout Belgian with a mustache, a very gentleman, with eagle eyes, a little strange. He usually suspects everyone in the room when he solves a case.
I remember watching the old version of Murder on the Orient Express before. The picture quality was not good, the plot progressed too slowly, and there were too many characters, which made people extremely impatient. After watching it for almost half an hour, the characters are still getting on the car one after another. However, the tension and surprise that the old version brought me is something that almost no detective film can match. Of course, Agatha's "No Survival" also made me worry from beginning to end. The theme of the two films is the same, that is, when evil is indulged, you can only play the role of God and punish the evil yourself. But at the same time, he also had blood on his hands. Violence is overcome by violence, and oneself is no longer pure.
Dad has been talking about it, the old version is better, the old version is thrilling. Indeed, that sense of thrill, the old version did too well. Such as the mysterious woman in red pajamas in the carriage, such as dropped handkerchiefs, confetti and buttons. These mysteries add to the allure and wonder of the whole story. The 12 knives symbolize the trial of the sinner by 12 jurors. Knife bearers have different mentalities, ranging from deep to shallow.
The new version also has its good parts. Since there is no intention to compete with the old version in storytelling, let’s focus on the contradiction of human ethics. From the very beginning, the Turks set up a private court to execute the cheating lover, and it can be seen that Polo's confidence in the legal society and his disdain for this barbaric behavior. But in the end, facing the kindness and future of 12 people, he chose to hide it for them. What a rare thing this is, for him, justice and justice transcend everything, and there is no sin that cannot be punished by the law. Besides, because the dead man is a villain, and because he deserves to die, do you condone the man who killed him? Where did all this come from.
But the matter of the lieutenant who committed suicide because of his ruthlessness at the beginning, plus the pain and tears of these 12 people. For the first time he was shaken by what he believed in. Poirot's struggling expression in the last scene was so well done that it made me sad for a while. In the end, this extremely high detective ability is good or bad, nothing can escape his own eyes, nothing can be sloppy, and his heart is bound to swing and struggle back and forth between legal principles and human feelings. For the performance of this, the new version left a deep impression on me, while watching the old version, I can hardly remember anything other than its thrilling narrative, including this very important ending. Not to mention thinking.
A really good mystery novel not only presents crimes, but also makes people see the flash of human nature, and leaves people with infinite space for thinking. Whether it's the old version or the new version, it does a great job. All because of the amazing Agatha.

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Murder on the Orient Express quotes

  • Pierre Michel: Monsieur Poirot, how would you like your eggs?

    Hercule Poirot: Two, boiled, and *exactly* the same size, s'il vous plaît.

  • Hercule Poirot: [furious] You people! With your kangaroo jury, your kangaroo justice! You had no right to take the law into your own hands!

    Hildegarde Schmidt: M-m-monsieur Poirot, she was *five years old*!

    Caroline Hubbard: We were good civilized people, and then evil got over the wall, and we looked to the law for justice, and the law let us down.

    Hercule Poirot: No! No, you behave like this and we become just... savages in the street! The juries and executioners, they elect themselves! No, it is medieval! The rule of law, it must be held high and if it falls you pick it up and hold it even higher! For all of society, all civilized people will have nothing to shelter them if it is destroyed!