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Murder on the Orient Express

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I had rewatched the 70s version of Murder on the Orient Express a few days before viewing the current version. I thought it better to compare that way then to go backwards. I’ve enjoyed a lot of Agatha Christie’s mysteries, And Then There Were None sticks out as a favorite, but I had forgotten the central mystery of Express, and was curious if the update would change the denouement or not. It was an interesting comparison to view the films so closely together and I think it may have helped my impression of the recent version.

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Mother!

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There is a certain style of movie that I just don’t enjoy: esoteric, overly stylistic, solidly metaphorical, presenting a reality only in the surreal. There’s just nothing for me to connect with, and Mother! is precisely this type of movie. It may have worked as a short, but as a full-length feature it seemed designed to punish an audience.

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