A girl without a flame on train – Daily mail

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After a long wait, finally debuted “The Girl on the Train”, based on the bestseller Paula Hawkins (sold over two million copies). With Emily Blunt in the main role, the film manages to achieve the environment claustrophobic of the book, although the pace may have fallen short of the expected, as well as the little risk assumed by the director, Tate Taylor.

After a traumatic divorce, the devastated Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt) fantasy about the lives of the people that see through the window of the train that takes you to the job, the same train that passes every day in front of his former home, where her ex-husband now lives with his ex-lover and a child.

in This tormented daily trip, Rachel, psychologically very fragile, fixed in concrete in Megan (Haley Bennett) and Scott Hipwell (Luke Evans), a marriage that idealizes be perfect, until the day that supposedly sees her betray him… Invaded by anger and misunderstanding, on the way home decides to take an attitude. The problem is that, due to the alcohol that you consume throughout the day, wake up in the morning without any recollection of the previous night, marked by the mysterious disappearance of Megan.

The main sin (or virtue, depending on the view of the movie buff…) for the adaptation of Tate Taylor is to have been extremely faithful to the book. The director had as the primary goal not “hurt” the two-million readers that the work attracted, very probably thought the following: “Well, we’re going to follow everything to the last detail so not to raise problems.” The problem is that, when we adapt a work with the success of “The Girl on the Train” reached, it is necessary to present something more. Definitely, and as a proof of the adaptation, to be faithful is not always a virtue.

The film “The Girl on the Train” is, above all, “very clean”, does not exploit anything more than the book presents, limited to a visual of the pages of Paula Hawkins, is following all the details written by the author. Even the strategy of telling the story for different points of view was used by Taylor, though not so full as happens in the book.

But “The Girl on the Train” is not a total disaster. The air brittle and sinister Blunt, its huge insecurity, the mental, and the story itself and the suspense of the plot justify the full film, which has capabilities to entertain with great ease, at the same time it stresses the importance of choices in our lives.

Unfortunately, the choices that Taylor should have taken at the time of realization, not restricted to follow the train from the conductor Paula Hawkins. In the background, should have assumed the fate of the train without fear of derailing…

technical data:

Title: “The Girl on the Train”
original Title: “The Girl on the Train”
Performance: Tate Taylor
Cast: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson,Alison Janney and Luke Evans
Gender: Drama
Duration: 105 minutes
Country: USA
Year: 2016