#The Chic Young Divorcée

[j-august]

My husband asked me not to write about him after we split up. When he said this, he was reading a story I had published in a magazine, about another man from another lifetime. We were still together then, me and my husband. ‘Oh my god, I obviously won’t.’ I said. ‘We won’t split up anyway. Shut up, that’s so stupid.’

Later I think about how this is also a weird thing for him to have asked me because he of all people knows I make promises I don’t keep.

Róisín Lanigan, 'The Chic Young Divorcée'

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The Girl on the Train

Staring: Emily Blunt | Haley Bennett | Justin Theroux

I watched this movie on the plane from Dubai, I know watching films on the train are not the best movie watching experience but still I can call it a focused one :) with me staring on the small screen infront of me. First of all I have to say I was thrilled by the character Emily Blunt played, the character of Rachel Watson a bitter divorcé and an alcoholic, where she does not accept that her husband no longer wants her and she stalks his wife and keep showing up at their home. On the other hand there is Haley Bennett's character, Megan, a beautiful young woman with a troubled past including a miscarriage where her partner at that time leaves her, she ends up in a triangular relationship with her therapist, and Rachel Watson's ex-husband, Tom, played by Justin Theroux and there is on the other side her husband Scott played by Luke Evan. I have to say this girl knows how to pick men, all are good looking hot guys, or probably it's the director. Looking at the profiles of the writers of this film I found two names who has not provided much in the movie industry, these are Erin Cressida Wilson a screenplay writer who was a professor of playwriting at the University of California and there is Paula Hawkins who is a writer. Whatever their credentials are they wrote an interesting to watch mysterious drama movie, I think the majority of the audience who would be interested to watch this film are female audiences, so my guess is, could this be a replacement for the chic flick movies, this era started with production of 'Gone Girl' movie starring Ben Afflec and Rosamund Pike except Pike's character was a devil's in disguise kind of character. I think The Girl on the Train counters that idea it depicts these women as perpetrators at first, like the alcoholic and stalker Rachel, or the adulterous Megan, but as the story unfolds we will see they were manipulated and victims, in this film by Rachel's ex-husband, Tom.

I found the film to be a great psychological thriller. The casting of Haley Bennett I found was fruitful, this is a pretty girl we didn't antagonize or hate, the sequence of events gives the viewer little space to judge the character's morals where soon you will find their actions are reactions to the circumstances they were forced into.

In this movie Emily Blunt adds a new genres to her profile, although I Won't recommend watching it while on plane due to the psychotic drama of the characters, but still the mystery element is so intriguing and the end is so unexpected. A brilliant play with the audience's emotions which makes you think judging according to the morals you believe in is unnecessary true.