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“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
literature posters; murder on the orient express by agatha christie
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I can only see the world as it should be. And when it is not, the imperfection stands out like the nose in the middle of a face. It makes most of life unbearable. But, it is useful in the detection of crime.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017) dir. Kenneth Branagh
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MOVIES WATCHED IN 2018 ☰ Murder on the Orient Express (2017) dir. Kenneth Branagh
“Ladies and gentlemen. I have understood in this case that the scales of justice cannot always be evenly weighed and I must learn for once to live with the imbalance.”
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“We find out in the movie who did it, how they did it and why they did it - and we infuse the why with a lot of passion. But the moral question was, What is justice now? “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” if taken to its logical conclusion, leaves no one standing. Where do we draw a line? Poirot says early in the film, “We must be better than the beasts,” but he understands that primal urge. The articulation of that feels like a modern kind of issue. Audiences wanted it to be complicated. They didn’t want Poirot merely to solve and then walk away.“ - Kenneth Branagh on what makes Murder on the Orient Express timeless [x] [x]
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Are you ready for Murder on the Orient Express?
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Everyone has a secret
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“I was also drawn to the moral ambiguity of the story. We meet a character at the beginning that says ‘there is right, there is wrong, and nothing in between’ and there is a journey that suggests that maybe there is a lot in between. All that knotty moral positioning lies underneath a story that continues to be a page turner.” - Kenneth Branagh on Murder on the Orient Express