Murder on the Orient Express

Corrected entry: Poirot is reading A Tale of Two Cities, at a table with a cup of coffee. Johnny Depp comes over and puts some cake down. Shortly afterwards a jug and a glass of water appear on the table from nowhere and remain there for the rest of the scene. (00:55:00 - 00:56:00)

MrPiehead174

Correction: The water pitcher and glass are there in the wide shot before Depp joins him.

Corrected entry: The train is constantly shown as being on a single track. There is no track for any trains travelling in the opposite direction. So, if the Orient Express meets a train coming in the opposite direction... the terminus in Istanbul has several lines running into it and its inconceivable that no other train is making its journey towards the city.

Correction: It is not that uncommon to have a single track railroad, even today Belgrade-Bar railroad has a single track part of the way. There'll be sidings, switches, signals, sections of double track, etc. to ensure safety.

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.

Necrothesp

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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.

raywest

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