The Girl on the Train - Movie Review

Star Rating: ✭✭✭✭✰

Storyline -

"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" - imdb.com

Review -

The Girl on the Train is based the novel written by Paula Hawkins. It focuses on Rachel, an alcoholic struggling to deal with her divorce from Tom, who has remarried to Anna, and now has a child. Rachel attempts to hide her drinking problem by traveling to and from New York City each day via train, which passes the house she bought with Tom, who still lives there with Anna. Through her travels, Rachel has developed an obsession with the couple next door to Tom and Anna, Megan and Scott. Drawing impressive sketches to pass the time.

One day on her way to the City, she witness Megan committing adultery. This crushes Rachel's delusions of their "perfect love", causing her to drink to excess which in turned causes her the blackout and make an irrational decision on the way home, to get of the train and confront Megan, being so intoxicated she blacks out after screaming at Megan "WHORE"! Megan is later found dead, with Rachel being the prime suspect.

The Girl on the Train had a dark suspense that had me so enthralled, I was on the edge of my seat the whole movie. While the start was somewhat slow-paced, the characters were well developed. I found the themes of abusive relationships to be quite raw, as it is not something often brought to light in major motion pictures. It was also intriguing to see how each of the women were connected to one another in the end.




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Information - 

Release Date: 07 Oct 2016
Time: 1 hr 52mins
Cast:

	Emily Blunt	...	Rachel
	Haley Bennett	...	Megan
	Rebecca Ferguson	...	Anna
	Justin Theroux	...	Tom
	Luke Evans	...	Scott