The Girl on the Train [DVD]

Great movie

Wow, I cannot believe it took me so long to get around to watching this movie! It is on my Starz Channel in Amazon Prime Video so I decided to finally watch it last night! I do not regret it! It started very interesting to me as a woman telling her story! It's like you were a friend and she was explaining who she was, maybe doing some self reflection! It went back and forth a lot to show what had happened or what she thought was happening! It's very interesting to find out what was truly going on & just goes to show how easily a person's entire reality can be tainted with just a change in perspective by another person! I don't want to spoil anything for whoever hasn't seen this but things aren't always what you think! I think we do that so much in our world! We hide things and put blame on someone who is the easiest target instead of seeing the whole picture! But, this definitely had an amazing ending! It Justified everything! I found myself cheering and it showed that if you stand up and stand your ground to a Bully, in the end, the truth will be known and all that hurt will be worthwhile! I don't know why some people didn't like this movie! I thought it really had amazing suspense, memorable and characters and a real Justifiable Cause that was revealed in the end! I like that it was kind of like a mystery you had to piece together alongside the main character! Pieces were fuzzy at times and she kind of acted like a detective on her own life events, probably how some people feel about their own lives who want to know the truth! It was "The Who Done It" style of movie which I love as I always like choose your own adventure detective books! This is that in movie form! The best thing I took from this movie apart from the fact that "The Truth Shall Set You Free", was this, "Things aren't always as they seem" awesome themes and a movie that gave me so many feels and I will remember for year to come! If you haven't watched it, do it. I promise, it is an intriguing movie if characterization and twisted endings are your cup of tea!

Rachel (Emily Blunt) is a young divorcee with a drinking problem. She loves to travel by train, traipsing through her former home, where her ex-husband Tom (Justin Theroux) lives with his new wife Anna (Rebecca Ferguson) and their infant daughter. This is a sore spot for Rachel. She'd wanted a child with Tom, and now she rides on the train, passing through the life that should have been hers. No wonder she drinks all day! But something brings her comfort: a young couple who lives in the same neighborhood. Megan (Haley Bennett) and Scott (Luke Evans) are the perfect couple. At least THEY get to be happy. But then Rachel sees something from the train, and one thing leads to another, and Megan goes missing. Rachel has no memory of the events that took place during a drinking binge that occurred right around the time Megan went missing. Could she be the one responsible for Megan's disappearance? This is based on the novel by Paula Hawkins. I read the book two years ago, and I loved how compelling the story and characters were. The characters, while unlikable, were well developed, which is hard to do when you use multiple narratives. The movie stays faithful to the book, but they made some changes. The book is set outside of London, and the movie is set in New York's Westchester County. Rachel is an artist in the movie, and I don't remember her doing this in the book. (She used to work for a PR firm in both versions.) Other than a few minor changes, it all stays the same. Rachel is more likable in the film. She's more sympathetic, less messy too, but Blunt's delivery is on the money. I won't give the story away to those who haven't seen the film or read the book, but this story has an unreliable narrator, and it tackles difficult subjects like gaslighting, triangulation, social media stalking, real-life stalking, among other things. It's a good thriller. It's more character-driven than plot-driven, which is why the mystery takes a backseat at times. I recommend it to those who love dark suspense films. I give this four out of five Shortbread Lattes.

Je n'ai pas lu le livre mais cette adaptation est réussie, Emily Blunt est une excellente actrice.

It is an ambitious undertaking to take a very complicated story from a novel and convert it into a storyline that does not lose its audience. The writer, director and producer did a brilliant job... it stayed true to the novel except the setting which had it been filmed in England would make the movie even more believable, in my opinion. It is a R rated movie.. some violence and nudity.. the violence more disturbing of the two elements. It was enough though to give the sensual and disquieting side of people's interwoven lives. Acting is magnificent. Oddly enough the ratings seem to be largely either very high or very low.. I wonder what those panning the movie were watching.. I think it is hard to act but done so in a very clever and thoughtful way...The story is no doubt disturbing, but riveting - sort of Alfred Hitchcock style.. Emily Blunt is fantastic. My rating is 9.5 out of 10.

Excellent film, very gripping!! But can't get 4k version to work in my DVD player, maybe because it's American?? A number of other4k dvds work fantastically on the player, there the picture and sound are fantastic!!

Was very similar to the book. Even though I knew the ending it was so well acted . Recommend

This movie is, well, difficult to figure out for myself and my husband. Its really intriguing big time. We're watching it a second time. Curious to know what others think 🤔 It's hard to figure out. But great storyline.