After watching the movie, I feel that the most exciting part of this movie is after Poirot solved the case, in the last ten minutes of the movie, those arguments about law, justice and God, the great detective struggled fiercely.
[You people actually set up a private court and pretend to be righteous; 】
【We used to be kind and civilized people, but when disaster strikes, we seek justice from the law, but the law has let us down. 】
【Your behavior is tantamount to street savages! Both jury and executioner, only in the Middle Ages! ] [The rule of law must be above all else, and even if it is unfair, it should also enrich the belief and make it enduring. Once legal beliefs collapse, civilized society will have no place to live. ]
[There is a kind of justice above the rule of law, sir. 】
【Then let God preside over justice! ]
[You talked about the woman in Istanbul who knew the taboos of the local culture and what it means to break the taboos. Cassetti knew it too. 】
【You know it too. 】
【When you are rejected by justice, your life is no longer complete, like a barren place abandoned by God. I asked God what I should do, and he said, do the right thing, and I thought doing it would make my life whole again. 】
【Is it complete now? ]
[(Silence, lips trembling.) At least I did the right thing. 】
The end of the film doesn't tell us how Poirot decided the fate of the twelve, although I've been waiting for his answer. However, the decision is in our hands, in the hands of the audience.
If it were Sherlock Holmes, I know he would have been the judge himself and let the twelve go, because they did "do the right thing". (Maybe it's debatable whether it's really "the right thing to do", but they did justice, and Holmes would have spared the people who do the justice, like in "Grange Manor," in "Milverton.")
But Poirot... Poirot's stern condemnation at the beginning of the film leads to the suicide of a lieutenant who made a mistake, revealing Poirot's character from the start. And what he said in the argument: "The rule of law must be above everything else, and even if it is unfair, it should enrich the belief and make it enduring. Once legal beliefs collapse, civilized society will have no place to live. 】Really powerful.
In Istanbul, they saw the woman who was to be stoned to death; and now these twelve men are the same woman. You can only sympathize, but not save. Because these are the rules, maybe unreasonable, but to be followed. What the living people have to do is to constantly improve the rules and make the rules work better. Only in this way can justice be better served.
Whether Holmes or Poirot was right or wrong, I cannot judge.
There will always be loopholes in the rule of law, but if the law is abandoned because of loopholes, and everyone acts outside the rule of law, everyone will be a judge, and there may be no order in this society.
Another: The scene of the train passing through the mountains in the film is really beautiful.
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