Wednesday, August 27, 2014

#2: ##3 The Lady Vanishes

A good thriller. As the name suggests a lady vanishes from a moving train. It is a simple story. The plot is conventional with its high points and low points. The way the mystery is built is quite engaging. All in all, a fun movie to watch if you can sit through the first 30 minutes of the movie.

Plot:
There is a young lady, Iris, travelling on a train back to Britain from another country. She get accidentally injured just before she enters the train and an old English lady offers to help her. The old lady is called Ms. Froy. She decides to be with Iris until she feels better. They are spotted together and have brief interactions with a couple of people on the train. Suddenly she disappears from the train. Iris is sure that Ms. Froy existed but not a single other person seems to recollect it.


 The story goes from the point where people are suspecting Iris to have suffered brain injury to her convincing one person who helps her eventually find Ms. Froy. In this process, they end up creating trouble for the entire train as there are a whole lot of people involved and it is a matter of international importance. They eventually help is saving Ms. Froy and also the people on the train.




For those, who love the details, here's the wiki link.

Alternate plot:
Since this story has a clear purpose, suggesting an alternate plot won't help. Although, it is possible that the movie could get to the inciting incident (when Iris realises that Froy is missing) much faster.

Characters
Iris:

She is young, beautiful and confident. She is shown to bribe the hotel manager to throw someone out of the hotel because she can't sleep because of the amount of noise the person was making. This is contrary to her behavior in the train where she goes to a great extent to make sure a stranger who helped her in safe. She can stand by what she believes in, even if she has no one by her side.

Gilbert:

He is a young musician and a teacher who is very smart. He knows how to deal with people who can hurt him. He believes what he sees and is quick to judge the situation. Although he is a smart man, he is also very kind and helpful and morally upright.

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