The story arguably has something to have say about the nature of guilt and the nature of authorship. Kenneth Branagh: ‘I want you to smell the steam of the Orient Express’ Read morePoirot boards the renowned Orient Express in Istanbul, heading for Calais, and finds he is sharing it with a remarkable cross-section of American and European society – though, with only a dozen or so passengers, the real mystery is how the Orient Express stays solvent. Photograph: Alamy Stock PhotoTellingly, these moments happen before the murder, the discovery of which is filmed in the most bafflingly indirect way. When the murder is announced, the narrative clockwork is assumed to have been set in motion. Carrying that thing around on the train must have been a pain, but at last it came in handy.

Source: The Guardian November 02, 2017 22:00 UTC