Not just a thriller, 'Girl on the Train' plumbs women's struggles. The cast of new thriller celebrates the film's opening with a red carpet premiere in New York. Rough cut (no reporter narration). Rachel turns amateur detective when another woman with disturbing secrets, Megan (Haley Bennett), goes missing and turns up dead. Paula Hawkins on Why Her Book The Girl on the Train Is Being Called . Girl on the Train and Gone Girl together. Rough cut (no reporter narration). But 'The Girl on the Train,' the movie version of the best-selling novel. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins: Spoiler Discussion. If you have not read The Girl on the Train and are planning to, do not read any further. There are SPOILERS in this post. Check out my spoiler free review instead! The Girl on the Train is one of those books that you just want to talk about. I really don’t have that much to say about it without spoiling things. So, for the first time ever, I’ve written a blog post with spoilers! Do you want to discuss The Girl on the Train in all its. I didn’t trust the narrators and was suspicious of everyone’s version. The Girl on the Train. According to her account, six men of North African descent ripped her clothes, cut some of her hair and daubed a swastika on her stomach. Casting, lighting, cut necessary details. The girl on the train: how could they turn a brilliant book into such a mediocre movie. What was your take on Rachel and her many issues? Delving into Rachel’s issues was my favorite part of the book. She is pathetic on the surface, but. Sometimes I wanted to shake her and say, “really, you can’t resist G& T’s out of a CAN?!! Those sound disgusting, incidentally. But, she ends up showing grit, courage, and tenacity (corkscrew to the neck?!). The thing that struck me most about this was how vulnerable the blackouts made her. Given the ubiquity of “The Girl on the Train. A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe. Theatrical Version Director's Cut show details. Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page. She had signed a recording contract and even cut a. The Girl on the Train. And, how this vulnerability coupled with her shame about each of these incidents caused her to believe the worst of herself. She was ripe for the pickings, shall we say. I liked how Hawkins explained how she got like this and tied her downward spiral to her infertility struggle, which seemed like a very realistic scenario to me. She seemed be trying to fill the purposelessness of her life, which caused her to go to extreme lengths to matter. Viewed from this angle, she seemed like an obsessive, stalkerish attention- whore. But, you can also look at her behavior as that of an innately sweet girl who possibly did something horrible (or saw something horrible) while blacked out. And the guilt associated with that drove her to extreme lengths to try to make it right. What exactly is Tom? Something is clearly wrong in his head, but what is it? Does he have anger issues? He’s not just a guy who killed his mistress in a fit of rage over her threats to expose her pregnancy. I kind of want a diagnosis for him! He actually reminded me of a guy a friend of mine dated long ago. Not the murderous inclinations (obviously!), but the ability to convince his girlfriend that she had mental problems and needed to be in therapy when he was the one that was. Just like Tom turned the tables on Rachel and exacerbated her drunken spiral. We know he “lied about everything, all the time”. Other than that, we know he wasn’t in the Army like he said and his fallout from his parents played out differently than he said. Why does he lie all the time? What is his background? I want to know more! Is Scott the only sane person in this whole mess? Though he was innocent in all this and was understandably not his normal self. I needed some sort of explanation for this behavior once it was confirmed that he wasn’t the killer. Did anyone see the end coming? I was fairly certain Scott hadn’t killed Megan, as that would have been way too obvious. For a very brief time, I thought maybe Anna was the killer (because of Rachel’s feelings of fear around her). A female killer would have been different and kind of interesting! But, when Anna said, “He’s a really good liar”, I was pretty sure it was Tom. And, once Scott learned that Megan’s baby. I understand Hawkins had to lay a little groundwork so the ending didn’t seem too random, but did she give away? She sure didn’t surprised me! What did you think about all the sordid details?!
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