The Girl On The Train

Movie Review
Release on: Oct 07, 2016

Movie name	:	The Girl On The Train
Genres	:	Mystery, Thriller
Run time	:	112 min
Produced by	:	Marc Platt
Directed by	:	Tate Taylor
Music by	:	Danny Elfman
Writers	:	Erin Cressida Wilson, Paula Hawkins
Cinematography	:	Charlotte Bruus Christensen
Edited by	:	Michael McCusker, Andrew Buckland
Production	:	DreamWorks Pictures Reliance Entertainment Marc Platt Productions
Countries	:	USA

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Stars : Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Edgar RamÃrez, Laura Prepon, Allison Janney, Darren Goldstein, Lisa Kudrow, Cleta Elaine Ellington, Lana Young, Rachel Christopher, Fernando Medina, Gregory Morley, Mac Tavares, John Norris, Nathan Shapiro, Tamiel Paynes, Peter Mayer-Klepchick, Frank Anello, Sergei Ashurov, Sidney Beitz, Mia Bottino, Marko Caka, Brian Esposito, Paul Galbraith, Ross Gibby, Leilah Marie Giddens, Conor Hovis, Alexander Jameson, Samantha Lee Johnson, Hannah Kurczeski, Faith Logan, Doris McCarthy, Kevin D. McGee, Jalina Mercado, Craig Moruzzi, Kristina Nichole, Alice Niedermair, Phil Oddo, Johnny Otto, Mauricio Ovalle, Tod Rainey, Eugene Resler, Eddie Sellner, Guy Sparks, Athena Stuebe, Jesse VanDerveer, Tim Wiencis, Danielle M. Williamson

Story : The Girl on the Train is the story of Rachel Watson's life post-divorce. Every day, she takes the train in to work in New York, and every day the train passes by her old house. The house she lived in with her husband, who still lives there, with his new wife and child. As she attempts to not focus on her pain, she starts watching a couple who live a few houses down -- Megan and Scott Hipwell. She creates a wonderful dream life for them in her head, about how they are a perfect happy family. And then one day, as the train passes, she sees something shocking, filling her with rage. The next day, she wakes up with a horrible hangover, various wounds and bruises, and no memory of the night before. She has only a feeling: something bad happened. Then come the TV reports: Megan Hipwell is missing. Rachel becomes invested in the case and trying to find out what happened to Megan, where she is, and what exactly she herself was up to that same night Megan went missing.

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Belonging to the ‘Gone Girl’ zone, where almost every character is deceitful, self-destructive and delusional, this psychological thriller is clearly not everyone’s cup of tea. Watching Rachel grappling with her insecurities and unstable mind constantly is a mighty depressing experience. Her insanity and struggle to find a sense of worth and purpose in her miserable life is devastating even for you as a viewer. You watch her, the way she watches other people on her daily commute and it sends shivers down your spine.

With a few alterations for the screen, Tate Taylor makes you feel exactly what the book intends but given the limitations of his medium, the impact is relatively low. Grim, unpredictable and atmospheric, Taylor sets the mood of his film perfectly but struggles to maintain the tension. His film gets dreary by the time the mystery unfolds, unlike its predecessor (Gone Girl), which makes you hold you nerve throughout. Given the multiple characters involved here and their stories intertwined in one, the execution seems a tad hurried as well.

The casting is near perfect with Emily Blunt being a total revelation. She does justice to her layered, messed up character and evokes sympathy in spite of depicting an enormously flawed role. Other actors lend valuable support as well.

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The Girl On The Train

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