The girl on the train

Director: Tate Taylor

Cast:  Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans

Genre: Thriller/Mystery

 

Girl on the Train “A journey

through wicked deceptions”

The movie is based on the famous, best-selling novel by Paula Hawkins. The movie is about a man having lecherous, debaucherous, lustful desires toward women. A social problem where a relationship is built on the foundation of disloyalty, deception, and breach of trust. The movie characters are Megan (Haley Bennett), Rachel (Emily Blunt), and Anna (Rebecca Ferguson). The trio pulled off their best to depict the characters in the film, but how the character played by Emily Blunt was remarkable.

 

The actress with a sweet British accent imitated a woman with stuttering words, having the inability to speak properly because of her drinking habits. The emotional scenes where she was uttering broken sentences while tears dripping down her cheeks, and expressing her wrath with an outrageous tone really appalled me. The actress was previously showcased in the horror/ Si fiction movie like “A Quiet Place”, action/ thriller movies like “Sicario”, sic fiction/ action movies like “Edge of Tomorrow”, and sorcerous /fantasy movies like “Snow White and the Huntsman” which display her sheer diversity. I didn’t expect such a tout performance by Emily Blunt. Although, she was pregnant during the film, yet she acted so well. The actress as the main lead of the movie enthralled the audience with her enigmatic personality, difficult to figure out at first whether she is good or evil. This was eventually revealed at the end of the movie.

 

The movie theme (domestic violence/ controlling man) has already been talked about, yet there is much to say on the subject. The pervert husband Tom (Justin Theroux) who evolved in manipulating his ex-wife, cheats on his current wife having a physical affair with a girl who works in his house as a nanny. Tom cheats on his first wife (Rachel) dating Ana later he cheats on Ana too having an affair with Megan. Tom takes undue advantage of her ex-wife (Rachel) because she suffers from memory loss. He makes her believe that she is responsible for the wrongdoing that she never committed. Rachel is a sad person since she couldn’t have a baby. This later leads to breaking up her relationship with Tom. After being fired from the job she rides the train from her home to New York and peers at a girl with her husband through the train’s window and impersonates her not knowing the fact the girl she is watching every day is Tom’s child-minder.

 

 

Rachel overthinks about the couple especially the girl: What’s her name, what job she would do, what the couple would say to each other when they go to bed. One day, she sees Megan kissing another man the day before she goes missing. she feels so concerned that seeing the girl with another man makes her extremely angry that she feels like smashing her head on the floor. She thinks they were the perfect couple unlike her. Rachel considers the girl’s act as treachery. I think Rachel felt a pang of guilt as if she herself committed some sort of crime because she always idealized this girl. It happens when we see people around us, we always jump to the conclusion that they are happier than us, and comparing ourselves with others does not content you all the time. Sometimes it saddens you more than you expect.

 

Rachel couldn’t recall the whole incident of the tunnel because she blacks out every time. On encounter with Tom’s former boss, she gets to know that she was innocent and that whatever her husband had told her were lies. Rachel recalls everything that happened that day in the tunnel. She goes back to Ana to let her know about Tom’s deception despite the fact Ana also deceived her by dating Tom while she was married to him. It suggests that Rachel’s personality is filled with loyalty and kindness toward others. She wasn’t a bad person at all.

She didn’t even want to take revenge on Tom. She killed Tom in order to save her & Anna’s lives. Anna’s act of pressing the knife deeper through Tom’s jugular vein shows how sorry she was about what she thought of Rachel throughout the course of events. She was really upset and embarrassed by her own self.

 

 

-Sajid Ali

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