Not The Psychiatrist Too

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Film Review: Girl on the Train

On behalf of all those with a Y chromosome, I would like to sincerely apologise after watching Girl on the Train.  Because as this film would up it occurred to me that every single male character in it is a total and complete scumbag.  Each one of them could be set on fire during the credits and I would be like, 'eh, had it coming'.

Girl on a Train tells the story of a severely broken woman who travels on a train everyday for her work. During the journey she always sees a couple living in a house that look exactly like how she thought her life would work out. They happen to live  just next door to the house she once lived in with her husband, but now she is divorced and alone and also, crucially, very very drunk all the time. Because she's drunk this makes her witnessing a possible Affair happening between this woman and someone else that she sees from the train very difficult to accept as being true.

So she gets off the train and she walks towards a tunnel and she confronts this woman and tells her that she shouldn't be having an affair on her husband, she tries to tell her how much of a perfect relationship they seem to have, and then things go all a bit blurry. And when she wakes up finally she finds out that the woman has disappeared and that the police are involved. Did she actually witnessed the things that she thinks she witnessed? Or is it all confused and messed up because of what happened to her? These are the questions that we in the audience need to somehow figure out, and because we're dealing with the classic unreliable Witness it's actually very difficult to know how much of the truth you're seeing.

Eventually it all comes to a head and there's a massive confrontation between the various characters that we've been introduced to as the film rolled along. It's about at this point I realised that one of these characters does actually have to be the killer and so you have to start figuring out which one it probably is, based on what you've seen.  Did I get it right? No actually I don't think I did. But I did have fun trying to get there in the end, and I suppose that's what counts. Four evil men out of five.

- Peace out