Other mistake: When Hercule Poirot is interviewing Mary outside the train, the teapot in the middle of the table has a spout (pointing directly to the right, towards Mary) but no handle on top or the opposite side, towards Poirot, where the handle should have been.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
1 other mistake
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Daisy Ridley
Factual error: Brod railway station is not (and never was) an isolated railway station with mountains behind it. No mountains are visible from it but the town and fortress are nearby and easily visible from the station.
Hercule Poirot: My name is Hercule Poirot, and I am probably the greatest detective in the world.
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Answer: Dickens used satire, irony, and humor as a means to express social criticism and political commentary. His novels were filled with comical characters and colorful dialogue. He used a humorous writing style to expose the Industrial Revolution's harsh and negative impacts like poor education, worker exploitation, social inequality, and other societal ills such as extreme poverty, domestic violence, alcoholism, and so on. Poirot is obviously responding to that.
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