Hercule Poirot - Redemption (Murder on the Orient Express)

[@ViragaStoryCompany]

I doubt any actor will ever be able to make Poirot feel as lovely,intelligent, vulnerable,respectable and stylish as David Suchet did..

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

Amen! Well said! I saw the poster of Kenneth Brannaugh's version and it looks ridiculous. Sorry, but I'm thinking that Poirot...or anyone else with the good sense God gave a head of lettuce, would NOT walk ahead of a MOVING TRAIN!. You might as well tie a roast to your foot and then try to out-swim a great white shark. NOT wise. There are certain things that people with COMMON SENSE don't try to do. Poirot was a man with common sense.

[@Karol-hn8sq]

@@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE I don't agree. Kenneth Branagh's Poirot was good, I can even say he was great, but with compare to David Sunchet's brilliant Poirot every other Poirot will look poor. So this is non guilt of Branagh - he's good actor and his Poirot was also good. He just can't compare with Sunchet.

[@xyechenn]

Too true!

[@maribel4836]

You re right David Suchet it s the only one ! He s unique!

[@theoveranalyzingcinephile983]

@@Karol-hn8sq I partially disagree. It is true that the standard of Suchet is way too high, but Brannagh messed up. He is the weakest part of that film, and his performance like the tone of that movie is just all over the place.

[@elviradela728]

David Suchet is the best as Poirot. Few actors can achieve such an excellence. Blessings to you and the world.

[@petervagvolgyi9084]

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[@netfun8087]

100% agree

[@mickael4028]

1 - Peter Ustinov 2 - David Suchet 3 - Albert Finney

[@suzie_lovescats]

@@mickael4028You’re crazy 🤪 Suchet is always 1 🥇

[@ThatSantaGuy30]

Stunning. The facial expression in this scene while he clutches his rosary. The music accompanying this is quite spectacular.

[@HyperionRed]

Couldn't agree more. This is by far my favorite Poirot case. David Suchet played the part to perfection, so expressive!

[@maribel4836]

And the tears... Everything fantastic!

[@leeloothemagic5713]

Yeah!

[@petervagvolgyi9084]

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[@octaviaengres]

I adore David Suchet as Poirot.

[@Batallo12]

Being a huge fan of the 1974 movie with Finney, I approached this tv movie with a lot of scepticism but in the end i was totally wrong. The dark and evil atmosphere of this intepretation is astonishing, the dramatic fight inside Poirot about what to do and the fear he had was so intense. When he took his rosary and begin to cry, I started to cry too. Very emotional music, spectacular David Suchet. One of the best movie I've seen in the last years.

[@dpnast8301]

Well I cried when I watched the end of the series and saw the tragic last episode. :( Of all the series I hated most Five little pigs- because camera work was so awfull! and to say I hated series after 2003 - because there is so much gaywashing and sex - you know - and in original novels there was never such a thing.

[@adapperunicell]

I second that. I hate the story of five little pigs and death on the Nile, the sex scene in these films just....ticked me off... Like for real? I miss the old, spectacular camera before 2003 that primarily focuses on the whole scenery from walking through the murder scene instead of focusing on the overwhelemed emotions of the actors and actresses (lots of talking, smh).

[@johndeco]

@@adapperunicell Speaking of Death on the Nile, looking at other versions, Suchet's Death on the Nile is the most faithful (as of now)

[@msinvincible2000]

@@dpnast8301 Unfortunately, everything today is distorted to comply to the dictatorship of PC.

[@petervagvolgyi9084]

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[@sealslayer]

Him walking away rubbing his beads brought a tear to my eye. Poor man must have felt he has betrayed not only his self but his god.

[@petervagvolgyi9084]

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[@brigadier-tc8565]

In the books and series, it's explained Poirot believes God put him on Earth to bring criminals to justice, and in this moment, he believes he has failed his holy task

[@ExAnimoPortugal]

It's an interesting angle taken in the adaptation. The book doesn't tell us how Poirot dealt with the aftermath of the case. The adaptation shows us an older Poirot in a world right before WW2. I believe the writters took that to account.

[@mfjdv2020]

@@brigadier-tc8565 True, but in the book ('Murder on the Orient Express') Poirot adopts a very tolerant attitude towards the perpetrator at the end. He's quite relaxed about it all and agrees to place the alternative theory before the Yugoslavian authorities. I believe he felt that justice had indeed been done in respect of Cassetti, and he sympathised with the perpetrator in consequence. In this film however he gets terribly worked up about it all. I don't want to say too much in case some people on here haven't read the book or watched the film, which is why this comment is a bit cryptic. However David Suchet's portrayal in this film is totally different from the gentle humour and lighthearted ambience of the very first episodes (with Poirot, Japp, Lemon and Hastings)

[@kanishk7267]

@@mfjdv2020 I too loved the first few seasons - they were light-hearted and almost like a TV-family sitcom; and it was good to see them reunite that cast and tone in "The Big Four" episode. That said and done, I do also admire the ITV production team for making the final seasons so dark. I think it's a sign of the times and the increasingly inhumane world which we live in. Also, it was ultimately Poirot's humanity which wins over everything else. When you get older, you become more rigid and this might be especially true for his potentially undiagnosed OCD condition. The fact that he chose mercy over a rigid definition of law and faith - despite how spiritually and medically hard that might have been for him - is a tribute to his amazing character. It's the same theme they carry into ITV's production of "Curtain". Incredible stuff.

[@crimsonlyyours]

If you liked this Poirot episode, I strongly suggest Five Little Pigs too. It is a deeply haunting and moving tale.

[@mfjdv2020]

Yes it really is brilliant

[@gogroregogoror]

Best Poirot film in my humble opinion along with Orient Express

[@iamsherlocked345]

@@gogroregogororit’s so haunting… one persons selfishness has a cascading effect on everyone.

[@juancarloscuaocastellanos8813]

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." Mary Debenham: "When you've been denied justice... you are incomplete. It feels that God has abandoned you in a stark place. I asked God... I think we all did... what we should do, and he said do what is right. And I thought if I did, it would make me complete again." 😢

[@dclark142002]

Poirot: "And are you?" Mary: "But I did what was right..." There is a reason why God implores people not to seek revenge...it won't make you complete. Mary and the others killing here didn't bring back the child or their friends. It just added more death and blood to the ledger. Only the resurrection of Jesus from the dead offers hope of actually bringing CLOSURE to evil. Only God has the power to actually make things right.

[@pavelkochba9286]

Davit Suchet is the only Poirot for me. And this episode is the best one. Not only story is so awesome - place, plot, twists,... but the way how he played this role was just breathtaking. That conflict between law, reason and emotins was something, who I haven't found nearly anywhere else.

[@netfun8087]

I agree 100%. David Suchet is crystalline perfection, and the film is a masterpiece.

[@rubberface1424]

Maybe the most relentless piece of music I know of. Once the train gets started it will not stop until it is too late. Instead it builds, and speeds up. It's terrifying. It's beautiful. It's perfect.

[@ArkamasRoss]

"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." "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!" "There is a higher justice than the rule of law, monsieur!" *_"Then you let God administer it, not you!"_*

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

Good work! That last line scared me. The way he YELLED IT. And I have to wonder if Poirot was preaching as much to his own confusion as to what was done. Hmmm.

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

@Stefano Pavone Yup. Life isn't as straight forward as it might have seemed to him, once upon a case. His study of human nature was leading him down some dark areas. Like woods he wasn't sure he'd find his way out of. Ya know what just dawned on me... yuh, I'm so brilliant. uh huh. ...Kevin Elyot wrote the screenplays for BOTH Murder on the Orient Express and Curtain! In Curtain, Poirot is finally lead to that place he did NOT want to go! Realizing the law cannot touch Norton, he has two choices,....kill this monster to prevent him from killing anymore OR he could figure, "I'm retired, I'm ill. I don't need this crap. I'm going to Clairages!" 😉😄 But he did what he had to do. He took one for the team, as it were. *"Do you think God will forgive me?"* I would say, with a smile, "Yes. All you have to do is ask." On top of which, Poirot didn't avoid taking his medication to avoid justice, but to meet it. That man was NO coward.

[@cfytcf]

"And when he doesn't?"

[@reubenfromow4854]

It’s also worth mentioning here that David Suchet is a Christian- therefore he feels that last line very keenly! I imagine that influenced his line delivery somewhat

@@DragonRebelRose If Casetti was actually remorseful and really wanted to make ammends with his acts he should have turned himself in to pay for his crimes and give his victims some closure instead of escaping justice. I don't see how they are bad people. If they killed an innocent person who never hurt anyone then yes, they would certainly be bad people. But killing someone who needlessly killed a little child and wouldn't pay for it... I don't see it as an evil action. As far as we know, they never killed innocent people. Also, I have to remind you that they killed him because justice was not done. When a crime causes so much pain on so many people who never did something wrong and the perpetrator walks free and unpunished, what would you do? Stay there and just be ok with it? Let it happen? Let the victims have no closure? Casetti had to pay and if the system didn't give him the punishment he deserved, other people would. They didn't kill Casetti out of malice. They did it so a horrible man wouldn't go unpunished. I never said your opinion was wrong. I'm just stating mine.

[@jhfdhgvnbjm75]

I think this one was perfect not just because of David Suchet but because it did what all the other films never managed; it made it feel bitterly cold, like you really were trapped in a snow drift big enough to stop a train, juxtaposing the elagance and refinement of the luxury train and its passengers with the dark inside and out and them slowly being reduced to the most basic level as the power fails and they retreat into one room huddleing for warmth, surounded by frozen grandure as thought the coruption of Ratchet and the murder has spread to evelope the train.

[@kamilla1960]

The great drama here is the conflict between his understanding of the letter of the law and his sense of divine justice. He is also suffering from guilt because of the man who committed suicide at the beginning, and is reminded of the conflict between different forms of justice by the episode of the woman being stoned for adultery.

[@videnbas]

I found the scene with the woman being stoned totally offensive, and Poirot's complacency incomprehensible. Istanbul in the 1930s was not under Sharia law (they had a secular European legal system) and the stoning should/would have been considered a murder.

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

There is a lot of conflict going on. The woman being stoned bothered me, too. On one hand, yeah it MIGHT be part of their law, but what about the guy?!?! I mean, it takes two to tango. Permitting me to be theological here, but in the 8th chapter of John, the Pharisees brought a woman to Christ who was supposed to be stoned for adultery . In the text it said that Jesus stooped down and wrote on the dirt or sand... what He wrote is anyone's guess, but guessing isn't wrong, so I'll suggest that He wrote, "Where is this woman's partner? If she is committing adultery, WHO is she committing adultery with?" The 'justice' is not justice when only ONE person is paying for the sin committed by two people. That MIGHT be one of the reasons Jesus let her go. I think, had that question been posed to Poirot, he would have answered sympathetically and admitted the point. Over-all, it was a good but difficult episode to watch. This one religious woman who insisted that she was justified in killing Cosetti because she was without sin...O-KAY!! Compare that woman's self assured statement to Poirot's actions in Curtain. While X skated JUST far enough outside legal perameters NOT to be caught, Poirot KNEW what X was doing and that he would do it again unless he was stopped. So he did what he had to do and THEN prayed for forgiveness before he died.

[@Qendrese3549]

I thought it was weird as well how nonchalant Poirot was towards the stoning, and in how the film tries to suggest a parallel between it and the murder of Ratchet. Yet the two events are not equivalent, adultry is not remotely comparible to kidnapping and murdering a child. The murder of Ratchet was a result of the grieving family and friends of Ratchet's victin taking revenge after the legal system had let them down, while rhe stoning was a result of family 'honor' and rooted in misogynistic sexual mores.

[@carlottaweathersby7246]

@@videnbas BRAVO👏👏👏🎄👮💒🙏🎄💞🌻🐝

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

True. But I think it was an issue of perception. The woman (Mary?) says to Poirot ; *"She was just an adulteress, she didn't commit murder!"* even as she knew what she was about to partake in. On one hand, you see the side of the friends and family of the Armstrong's . On the other, you see Poirot's P.O.V. which was proven inside of MINUTES after he declared *"You cannot take the law into your own hands! Judge and jury; they elect themselves?!..."* As soon as he and Michele adjourn to another room, Mary's husband was going to shoot both of them. It was a teeter Toter ride in a house of horrors. I could go on about how that lady was wrong about there are some sins God does not forgive, but I'll just say I understood how they felt. At the end of the day, Poirot had to admit the same to himself; wondering if God would forgive him. Answer: YES.

[@mariambajelidze8515]

Absolutely fantastic. I love this episode. David suchet is the best as Poirot.

[@HyperionRed]

This is probably the best of the bunch. Such expression, also aided by this music...you could be forgiven for thinking that this isn't just the recreation of a novel, but that you're actually there, feeling the action. A masterpiece!

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

LOATHING christie and her HATRED for Poirot, I'm all for any diversion from her self important tomes. Having said that, I do remember listening to the dramatic audio book with John Moffatt before I put an end to any christie books, period. Thee scene with Poirot's empassioned sermon about the RULE OF LAW was not in that book. It was very ....detatched. No passion. The screenwriters of the series as well as this movie gave Poirot the soul christie didn't bother with.

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

FAR AND AWAY *BETTER* than the book! See, the screenwriter GAVE A DAMN about Poirot. Christie wished she'd never created him.

[@petervagvolgyi9084]

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[@Xyde]

This ost itself is more interesting than the entire 2017 movie .

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

Sadly, when you try to PLAY IT SAFE in the name of PC sensibilities, nothing gets said. And...sorry but Kenneth Brannaugh could convince me he was WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE before he'll ever make me believe he could be Poirot. David OWNS this role!

[@qeetuhd]

Jep, Poirot ain't no action hero and shouldn't be made to such

[@crystalhowley4259]

Agatha Christe was such a gift, as a faithful Anglican she also saw the beauty in the old Catholic Church and stood up for keeping the old Latin Mass! The world could use her now! God bless.

[@bejbimama6689]

This is my favourite interpretation of this story. Justice is served but punishment was cruel.

[@sejaqucdabiran7104]

Merveilleuse et poignante musique : cet épisode était superbe. Que de noirceur, de tragédie, de peines et de deuils...seul Hercule aurait pu être humainement à la hauteur dun tel drame : cette musique est l'illustration de ce train qui roule vers la mort...comme un cercueil en acajou, peint aux motifs de l'Art Nouveau.

[@musicalkeyspianoschool3818]

This score and Suchet's acting skills, amazing combination. Deeply and powerfully conveyed Poirot's internal turmoil.

[@mozart736]

He was put in such a comprising position by the family that he actually had to think twice about the whole situation, something the Great Poirot never does..... but they made him do it.

[@saint-gallier]

This track, what it represents, how the conclusion worked, how this version builds up the tension granted it's too short of an episode. I wrote a three parts blog about it on my tumblr when i saw it. I waited so long to see what the writer would do with this version, with this Poirot. And this theme is mesmerizing, it's my all-time favourite of all Poirot's soundtrack.

[@dclark142002]

I love that this moment in the film is the first and ONLY time that you finally get a resolution of the ongoing minor chords and dissonance. It is only AFTER Poirot lies that the characters and story and music is allowed to be resolved. It's subtle...but man is it powerful. 2:30 and following....chills.

[@Cpt_Rough]

This scene is etched in my brain ever since I first watched it as a kid, as a fond memory.

[@GameInOne]

Just finished reading murder on orient express and man what twist was that loved it

[@themechanic.9545]

I recently finished it, and the twist was surprising.

[@dexjeloo3489]

My favourite tv character, ever.

[@odilm]

Quel talent cet acteur ! Qui d autre pouvait représenter hercule poirot ? Si ce n ' est LUI ! Sans oublier tous les acteurs talentueux à merveille Un bonheur de cinéma de musique de TALENTS merci à tous

[@coralroper6876]

I haven't watched the 2017 version. As much as I like Kenneth Branagh, I don't think he could hold a candle to David Suchet as Poirot.

[@larchimage3914]

When the description is both in english and french you know that you are at the good place

[@artur3965]

Probably the best Poirot ending ever (and what a music ...)

[@AzarMeu]

Uma impressionante interpretação de David Suchet. A única vez em que Poirot chora de vergonha e frustração porque, para não causar um mal maior, deve agir contra as suas mais profundas convicções.

[@aB-wj7dv]

Sem sombra de dúvida, o ator é perfeito no papel de Hercule Poirot, mostrando que ele é um personagem muito mais complexo do que parte dos leitores da lendária Agatha Christie pensa

[@BaptisteKerdraon]

Cette musique est à la fois oppressante et émouvante. Elle est géniale et va si bien avec l'épisode

[@BaptisteKerdraon]

+Ana SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER Justement cet instrumental s'appelle "Redemption" car Poirot demande à "Dieu" de lui pardonner d'avoir menti via son chapelet. Finalement il aura donné à la police une fausse version du meurtre. SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER

[@mfjdv2020]

@@BaptisteKerdraon merci, je ne sais pas si vous avez lu le roman mais là il n'y a pas de bataille du tout entre Poirot et sa conscience. Ce que j'ai compris, c'est une addition ou bien une improvisation de D. Suchet même.

[@claremmm]

Suchet has the soul of Poirot down to a infinitesimal refinement

[@fheofannya]

Un des plus beaux épisodes de la série avec les 5 petits cochons (Five Little Pigs)

[@lebarondeminuit3580]

C'est un de mes épisodes favoris avec La Boîte aux Chocolats

[@Briselance]

@@lebarondeminuit3580 J'aime la Boîte aux Chocolats parce qu'on y voit Poirot dans son jeune temps, en uniforme, quand il était encore un simple policier à Bruxelles.

[@lebarondeminuit3580]

@@Briselance Je comprends totalement puis on le voit amoureux

[@zocimike]

I have to say that this is an even more special rendition of a special episode. I have a suggestion for those before me: if you want to get the story in the book literally, then don't watch the movie, just read the novel. On the other hand, I feel it was a brilliant move by the creators of the series that they didn't make another obligatory book adaptation (there is already x version of this story with y actors), because I have never seen an episode in the series with such a deep moral message before. Well, this was a series that ran for more than 20 years with David Suchet in the main role, which deviates a little from the usual routine with the last episodes. Just as age is visible on the actor, the creators do not deny it from the character either, and because of this, an older, wiser, morally deeper-thinking detective appears, who is no longer just the cold-blooded hound who only cares about the given case and professional honor , but - and this is how the story fragment at the beginning of the film comes into the picture - he looks at the world in a more unified way and indeed philosophizes and moralizes. In this film, Poirot doesn't just solve the case, he makes a moral judgment... Can he make a moral judgment? Well, the film is about judging. I think it's a brilliant, thought-provoking, moving episode, really unusual from the series. ...and music is perfect.

[@iamsherlocked345]

It’s such a heartbreaking and powerful episode… for all the characters involved.

[@jeannieharmon628]

until i saw suchet play poirot i thought i had seen the best, boy was i ever wrong! he became poirot! i think christie would have agreed. simply the best!

[@user-nw7zj2du9p]

The rare case when the adaptation is better.

[@mariagarcia-ep7qt]

Brillante actuación. Transmitiendo su sentir, en el momento de la decisión. Y la música, como telón de fondo acompañando la contradicción.

[@danielchadwick8513]

The best Poirot actor ever

[@sandralewis4190]

I would love to travel on the orient express such a brilliant film and brilliant Actor David sachet who plays poirot I got all dvds except 3 the theme tune is.brilliant aswell it would be nice to meet the person him self

[@ivangrozny6609]

Piękna muzyka.pasujaca do tego rewelacyjnego odcinka filmu

[@qcpiano1760]

Amazing! This is one of the best scores ever written in my opinion! Full of emotion! 0:39 - 1:14 gives me chills

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

Well, like this version or not, (I liked it, though it was deeply dark) I will say this; If Kenneth Brannaugh, and his Snidely Whiplash moustache thinks he is going to undo David Suchet's body of work with this character then he is, as Poirot, himself, would say, *"barking up the wrong bush"*

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

@@Emperorcalebtine Agreed. Just finished watching it. It is dark, and there's a conflict going on between Poirot and this religious woman that finds its climax in Poirot's reveal of the killer(s) *"There is a higher justice than the rule of law."* *"THEN YOU LET GOD ADMINISTER IT! NOT YOU!!!"* That scared me. And then I get all weepy at the end. There is SUCH a difference between the Poirot in this movie and the earlier seasons. But people grow through experiences and Poirot was taken WAY out of his comfort zone here.

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

​@Stefano Pavone Sad but true. But when you've been looking at human nature from the dark side for so long, as Poirot said in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (movie/ episode) it starts to wear on you. Have you seen CURTAIN? Bravo to Kevin Eloyt for doing what could / SHOULD have been done in the novel, if Poirot's author actually gave a damn about him!!! (HASTINGS finds Poirot) . Anywho, there was an article in the Mirror (British Tabloid ) where the 'writer' (?) gives the impression that Poirot just lost it and went on a murderous rampage. What he DID was all he could do. Since Norton had found an ingenious way of killing two people and not being able to be touched by the law, Poirot had two choices; LET Norton continue killing people, or kill Norton to stop him from killing anymore. While Poirot felt remorse for what he did; asking Hastings if God would forgive him, Norton killed so many people without a shred of remorse. He even smiled when Poirot had a gun to his head; thinking that Poirot would be legally culpable for his actions. In fact, Poirot didn't avoid taking his medication to AVOID judgement but to face it. A court of law might have found him guilty or might have thought the poor old detective's little grey cells finally turned on him. But Poirot didn't fear their judgement so much as he worried about THE judge. Norton probably didn't even think about such a thing. Even when a gun was pointed at him. I'm guessing Poirot fared MUCH better in that Court than Norton did.

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

​@Stefano Pavone For sure. And Poirot didn't even want to. I'm sure he racked his little grey cells to find a way around what he didn't WANT to do. In the meantime, Norton got some perverse pleasure from messing with people's lives. GOTTA WONDER.... IF Judith had taken the bait and done what she believed to be 'merciful' , who do you think would have ended up dead? Her sweetie's hypchondriac wife or Poirot? Norton was BAITING her seriously, (at dinner) and Judith was talking about the 'mercy' of putting the old and the ill out of the way. In earshot of someone who was both old and ill. (Poirot had Angina) . Norton's like, "Well, put up or shut up, girl. Do what you SAY you believe in!" Simple answer: Poirot. His death would have best benefitted Norton, JUST IN CASE he found a way to legally nail Norton, he had to be stopped. The fact that he was frail would have made Judith's ethics very useful. Not only would Poirot be out of the way, but Hastings' daughter would hang for it. It's all good. I actually wrote a version of Curtain where Judith DID hang for killing Poirot, but then I thought of someone who made a LOT more sense to a final conflict and who I desperately want to see with her neck in a noose. Ariadne Oliver.

[@Briselance]

@@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE You do not like Ariadne very much, do you? :-P

[@mfjdv2020]

@@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE why don't you like Ariadne Oliver? She is supposed to be Agatha Christie's alter ego! (And incidentally she's brilliantly portrayed in this series by Zoe Wanaker). By the way, _please_ stop posting words in capital letters. It's not necessary and it considerably detracts from what you are trying to say. I imagine English is not your native language!

[@Kafabi]

I was so shocked when he did it...... but now I finally have understand why cause in my own I life I had to struggle so bad and it is sometimes so hard to make the best choice....

[@hansrunkvist7130]

Den bästa filmatiseringen av mordet på Orientexpressen någonsin!

[@suzie_lovescats]

I agree 💯

[@selenbalc2980]

I like this music. it feels strange.

[@dclark142002]

It's even better when you consider it's context. The entire film score is almost entirely minor key or dissonant, until this moment (specifically 02:40) when the conclusion of the film is made and you realize that Poirot is going to let them all get away with the murder. Then, and only then does the composer give you the release you have been waiting for from minor keys and dissonant chords to what the themes have all been hinting at. Then the score builds to 03:00 when the theme is finally and fully revealed and you realize that there will be no more killings. The characters can be 'at peace' (or at least as much at peace as they can be) and the credits can roll in a major theme. IMO, the composer also plays with the tempo in the credits...gradually increasing the pace and adding the train's theme to give you that sense of being able to 'move on.'

[@carlottaweathersby7246]

@@dclark142002 TheMelody&Texture'ofThe'Music'is'a👑RIGHTEOUS'Sound🏆 'inmy'Ears👂👂👏🎄🌹🐝

[@vincentneumann798]

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! I don't know how many had played Poirot but David Suchet was and is the best Poirot of all of them. *Poirot is my invisible, closest and best Friend* ~David Suchet "Being Poirot" 😃😃😃

[@jeannieharmon628]

"sir david suchet", BRAVO! well deserved!!!

[@Stark238]

This was a gut wrenching scene. The ways in which right and wrong, and the themes of good and evil were touched upon, was insane. David Suchet was Hercule Poirot. One of the most powerful scenes ever filmed. He was in limbo. He was conflicted. Although he knows he should not have let them go, he knows it is all in God's hands. Chilling. Powerful. What is justice and who are we to impose it on others?

[@ericulric223]

This scene and music totally epitomize self-abnegation in this story.

[@carlosrocha4570]

Poirot faz parte da minha juventude. David Suchet é de facto um ator fantástico que personifica sem mácula a personagem única de Agatha Christie. Ainda me divirto muito ao rever todos os episódios da saga Poirot.

[@K_P84120]

Il est ouahou 😮 ce film avec David Suchet c'est le meilleur pour incarner les "Poirot " aucun autre acteur a eu grâce à mes yeux a part lui 😊

[@masonbaack]

This would also be very good on Sherlock.

[@Anita-pf1hy]

David Suchet is superb as Poirot !!

[@SuperParchita]

Please, please, please bring the link back!!! PLEASE!!!

[@suzie_lovescats]

Suchet doesn’t just play Poirot, he is Poirot 💯

[@iamsherlocked345]

He was born to play that character

[@jeannieharmon628]

suchet is the epitome of poitrot!

[@baptistedelelcourt7946]

La Vérité de la Vraie Europe aussi émouvante que sordide se trouve encore dans les neiges Serbes en 2020.Agatha Christie n'a pas choisie cette escale yougoslave par hasard pour eclaircir ce crime odieux.

[@mfjdv2020]

Pour moi le vrai crime odieux n'est pas l'assassinat de Cassetti. C'est son propre crime horrible: enlever et assassiner un petit enfant.

[@vainzen]

Je me remettrai jamais de cette musique

[@nikinewton7917]

Who saw the love he felt, at the end of The Blue Train" great acting 🎉🎉 ❤❤

[@JonahUniverse]

Download link is dead, I'm curious where you were able to find this track? I'm looking for all the music from this adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express

[@illyshashow]

Christian Henson, thanks for that

[@chauvenetjonathan8182]

Hommage a mr David Suchet.

[@Cpt_Rough]

2:47 😭👌🏻always and forever, the best

[@steely95]

Masterpiece.

[@catherinebridge8727]

We frozen

[@fheofannya]

Superbe!

[@tatit188]

гениальная сцена !

[@carlottaweathersby7246]

👑REDEMPTION🎭🎬🎥'Icon🏆🎩MR'DAVID'SUCHET😎'Bravo&'Blessings'forever🎄💒🗽USA🎄🙏💞👏🌹🐝

[@javierdevicente95]

Thanks a lot for uploading this great piece @Okami San unfortunately, the link to the song is dead

[@margaritmincey389]

Cool photo, powerful!!! Bravo!!! David!!!

[@divyachristian4052]

Pls provide th movie link..pls

[@MissScarlett28]

Super

[@MissScarlett28]

Excellent

[@ФеликсСнегирев]

Дуже гарно! Дякую.

[@Animesther]

RDR2 starting vibes

[@ОльгаЗыкова-к1х]

Дэвид Суше лучший в этой роли

[@HEX_VENTURE]

He got the lightskin stare

[@jmaebm1262]

Io sono di Ercolino sempre impiedi e sempre lo sono stato.

[@jerrinepaiva3835]

"Murder on the Orient Express" was written as a tribute to the Lindbergh kidnapping. Little did Miss Christie know that Lindbergh himself kidnapped and killed his own child because he was not up to his standards.

[@mfjdv2020]

Did he really?!? How horrifying. I must read up the Lindbergh case. Of course I have heard of the kidnapping but I don't know any of the details.

[@dclark142002]

​@@mfjdv2020, we don't actually know for sure...but there is pretty interesting circumstantial evidence pointing to Lindbergh being involved.

[@ابنعطية-ه7ه]

lunk is dead xD but don t worry now people can download videos online

[@matpak6]

3:00

[@Gohot229]

A musical interlude ?

[@Mfl.8580]

Ya lo ví

[@MehmetIstanbul-dg2cm]

Hercule Poirot not similar to himself as David Suchet's similarity

[@sanderolsenlund1236]

Did he cry couse he let them go?

[@donotknow7650]

+Sander Olsen Lund I do not think so. Rather he went against his principles, that`s what made him feel bad. Magnificent interpretation as always by David Suchet!

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

Poirot cried because he wasn't sure he was right in letting them go. But he was looking at himself; WHAT IF he was the father or grandfather of a child who'd been murdered by Ratchett / Cossetti? Would he have been one of Cossetti's killers? More than anything, it's the lack of certainty, even in the law that scared Poirot, as well as the eternal penalties he felt were part of making the wrong decision.

[@ianmitchell491]

And, this conflict of beliefs in a way sets up the final story where a similar decision has to be made by Poirot. I watched this first to acquaint myself with this character, and frankly was slightly callous. Then I watched the whole series and soon realizing the tragedy of this man (who in his peculiarities reminds me of myself) having his whole motivation questioned and put to the test in so harsh a situation. I always love these detective stories by default, but this series is above and beyond my favorite.

[@bejbimama6689]

@@ianmitchell491 exactly! This is the moment when Poirot understanding of justice is changing and he become a man who he is in "Courtain".

[@nimamohseni3800]

@@bejbimama6689 Yes, you got it all.

[@DavidSimmonds-zn2rv]

🤣

[@brianbommarito3376]

David Suchet as Poirot and Toby Jones as Ratchett are amazing, but I hated almost everything else about this adaptation. Not like the book at all. Drained of charm and so dark it couldn’t be watched more than once.

[@mfjdv2020]

I agree with you. I didn't enjoy this film / episode either. Very black and morbid indeed. In general I love David Suchet as Poirot, but here I have to admit he is a trifle over the top. However I didn't like Toby Jones as Cassetti. He looks and acts like a little kid playing cowboys and indians, not like a sinister murderer in his 50s (or even older - I'll have to read the book again, for the 100th time!)

[@AzarMeu]

Not always the movies are faithful to their original books. However, sometimes they become even better, so powerful and suggestive they become. Such is this one, or "Blade Runner", with amazing soundtracks and superb actor performances.

[@brianbommarito3376]

Here’s what I think would be a perfect, or nearly perfect, adaptation to Murder on the Orient Express, the adaption that will never be made now because the time for it is past, or nearly past. David Suchet as Poirot, but Kenneth Branagh as Director and perhaps in the role of Colonel Arbuthnot, or a version of Monsieur Bouc as an alternative (Bouc was almost contemporary to Poirot in age in the book, not a younger side-kick as the most recent adaptions portray him). Most (but not all) of the cast from Branagh’s version, with one or two persons from this cast who did exceptionally well. The cinematography would be Branagh’s team. But the general script would be most like the 1974 movie version, which is the closest one to the book. Suchet would always have creative sway over the character of Poirot, his quirks and mannerisms and how he would say his lines. Patrick Doyle would compose the music. I think he proved his stuff in the Branagh film. They would take as few creative liberties with the book as possible, as Christie wrote the story so well that you can tell in the adaptions what is hers and what is apocryphal.

[@ZukoHalliwell]

David Suchet is the definitive Poirot, but this adaptation was an insult to the book and to the character Poirot. It wasn't that difficult of a decision to let them go in the book, and it shouldn't have been a difficult decision. Ratchett/Cassetti murdered a little girl in cold blood, and caused the deaths of 4 more innocent people. He needed to be punished for what he did.

[@harmankaur5205]

I have not always been a fan of the original novel... I love christie... ABC murders... death on the nile... Crooked house... evil under the sun... and then there were none... dead man's folly... so many more... the clocks... after the funeral.... love them all.... Curtain too... buckle my shoes, five little pigs.... orient express and Roger ackroyd i kinda always felt were over rated... Roger ackroyd, if you remove the trick that christie uses, its just average, the alibi with the time and gramophone and all is just average.... the murder is not as ingenious as death on the nile or evil under the sun.... its characters are not as intriguing as death on the nile or five little pigs... Murder on the orient express, when reading the book, I always felt... "will poirot let them go.?" Christie does not answer this... Poirot himself in the book does not answer this, leaving it on the guy with him and the doctor I think... This episode i really like because it shows poirot's conflict... as to what justice is.... I really liked this one

[@mfjdv2020]

Have you read Agatha Christie's 'Death comes as the end'? It's set in ancient Egypt and is about a wealthy Egyptian family and all their hangers-on. One person among all that lot is a murderer (of course!) I wish they would make a film version of this book.

[@dennytan2543]

This is not good vs evil, this is justice vs truth, such a dilemma. But i will choose truth any day, if i'm in poirot's shoes, i will turn them to police.

[@nachiketsachin8269]

thank god you didn't become a detective

[@mfjdv2020]

@@nachiketsachin8269 Hear, hear!

[@mfjdv2020]

@denny tan: There is also such a thing as mercy and common humanity, which you seem to have forgotten.

[@ziberteck]

Poirot disappointed me in this one, letting them go because they justified themselves by their own vengeance.

[@OCEANbreezeDIA]

+ziberteck Actually he really impressed me in this one. He proved that he's human and not a law&order machine. This time, he appealed to the divine justice, rather than the human one who failed to do its duty. Loved the portrayal of the book and David Suchet in this one.

[@ziberteck]

Ph0.3niX They leaned on their own understanding and did not trust in God. And while some may not care about that, the characters clearly claimed to, falsely. Yes the guy was evil and messed up but at least in this interpretation it appeared he was slightly repentant of his actions.

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

I think Poirot let them go because HE wasn't sure what HE would have done in the same situation. If their feeling justified was all there was to it, Poirot would have turned them over, but he was conflicted. It is a dark episode and you don't see Poirot smile once.

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

AMEN!!!! Exactly.

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

@@OCEANbreezeDIA As Poirot would say, *"Precisiment!"* Excellent point. As far as the book, I utterly LOATHE christie and her *UNJUSTIFIABLE* HATRED of Poirot so This adaptation was perfect. Dark but with a purpose. There was light at the end.