The Girl On The Train : Movie Review
This movie, for me, was a roller-coaster ride of endless moments of WTFs and WTHs and lots of cringing.
Director Tate Taylor's movie adaptation of Paula Hawkin's bestseller may not be agreeable to the fans of the novel, but as someone who has not read it, Charlotte Bruus Christensen's intriguing style of cinematography has done a really good job of making it entertaining.
Emily Blunt does a splendid job of being 'The Girl on the Train', Rachel Watson, with her hollow eyes and crusty lips, constantly inebriated but still maintaining an air of mystery and intrigue. Rachel rides the Hudson Line into New York City, averting her gaze as it passes the home that was once hers, where her ex-husband Tom (Justin Theroux) lives with his new wife Anna (Rebecca Ferguson) and their child. Instead, she becomes fixated with the exhibitive occupants of a house just a few doors down, who seem to be staging passionate acts of love for her viewing pleasure (scenes that you won't see if you watch the film in India). Rachel's overactive imagination visualises the couple living a dream life, but it all comes crashing down when, on one particular day, in her particularly pickled state she sees a glimpse of an incident before passing out, and wakes up with blood on herself and a bruised arm. The fantasies truly fall apart when the same morning she is informed that Haley Bennett's tantalising Megan, goes missing.
Rachel's blackouts and memory lapses that follow her routine of heavy drinking make it hard for her statements to have substantial reliability. However, she does remember what she saw as the train took her past Megan's home that morning, Megan was with a different man on the balcony, kissing him. Burdened with a feeling of guilt with a foggy memory of what she saw the night Megan went missing, she approaches the extremely handsome Scott (Luke Evans), to share this information, hoping that it would help them find Megan.
The inter-titles that take you back and forth along the timeline of the events connecting all the three women, Rachel, Anna and Megan, act as a strong tool of story-telling. Emily Blunt in the lead role does a brilliant job of holding it all together, while Rachel is falling apart. The plot has many twists and leaves the viewer unsure of who to root for, on the edge, for much of the story, but in the end it all comes into place.
I'd rate this 4 out of 5 sandwiches, and I'd recommend watching the movie, with the knowledge that you're not getting the full cut. Thanks for reading! Feel free to comment, share and subscribe.
Director Tate Taylor's movie adaptation of Paula Hawkin's bestseller may not be agreeable to the fans of the novel, but as someone who has not read it, Charlotte Bruus Christensen's intriguing style of cinematography has done a really good job of making it entertaining.
Emily Blunt does a splendid job of being 'The Girl on the Train', Rachel Watson, with her hollow eyes and crusty lips, constantly inebriated but still maintaining an air of mystery and intrigue. Rachel rides the Hudson Line into New York City, averting her gaze as it passes the home that was once hers, where her ex-husband Tom (Justin Theroux) lives with his new wife Anna (Rebecca Ferguson) and their child. Instead, she becomes fixated with the exhibitive occupants of a house just a few doors down, who seem to be staging passionate acts of love for her viewing pleasure (scenes that you won't see if you watch the film in India). Rachel's overactive imagination visualises the couple living a dream life, but it all comes crashing down when, on one particular day, in her particularly pickled state she sees a glimpse of an incident before passing out, and wakes up with blood on herself and a bruised arm. The fantasies truly fall apart when the same morning she is informed that Haley Bennett's tantalising Megan, goes missing.
Rachel's blackouts and memory lapses that follow her routine of heavy drinking make it hard for her statements to have substantial reliability. However, she does remember what she saw as the train took her past Megan's home that morning, Megan was with a different man on the balcony, kissing him. Burdened with a feeling of guilt with a foggy memory of what she saw the night Megan went missing, she approaches the extremely handsome Scott (Luke Evans), to share this information, hoping that it would help them find Megan.
The inter-titles that take you back and forth along the timeline of the events connecting all the three women, Rachel, Anna and Megan, act as a strong tool of story-telling. Emily Blunt in the lead role does a brilliant job of holding it all together, while Rachel is falling apart. The plot has many twists and leaves the viewer unsure of who to root for, on the edge, for much of the story, but in the end it all comes into place.
I'd rate this 4 out of 5 sandwiches, and I'd recommend watching the movie, with the knowledge that you're not getting the full cut. Thanks for reading! Feel free to comment, share and subscribe.
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