A good movie. I don't know why it only has 6,5 stars on imdb, I think it was a very good movie. Not an easy one, very dramatic, really a lot of drama, but also a nice mystery that unravels bit by bit.
I'm not going to watch it again because it's really very dramatic, but I'm glad I watched it.
It was well done in all aspects, I think, any one I can think of: acting, directing, lights, makeup, clothes... nothing 'really' wrong that I can point out. Of course I'm very annoyed at the nude scenes, not many but still there, specially one of the most dramatic scenes of a young woman, basically a girl since she was seventeen in the story, walking out naked because her daughter had died. It's dramatic, but the nude scene takes part of the drama out of it, it makes it less dramatic and more voyeuristic.
This was a good movie, it didn't need that.
There is only one thing that I don't understand. What day was it when she wakes up? It should be saturday right? She still bloody, and everything happened Friday night, so... ok, then we see her going out and at night the police is there... Well yes, maybe 24 hours have passed, but they are really quick in this movie uh?
Mostly the story is in the present, but there are bits from the past, to make you see different sides of the story.
Details:
Rachel, an alcoholic woman, travels by train every day, and watches the house of her ex-husband where he lives with his new family, and also the neighbours, a couple that she imagines like the perfect couple, what they never were.
Until she sees her with another man. She thinks she's cheating and she hates it.
She wakes up covered in blood, not remembering anything she did the night before. She's shocked, she has no idea why she has all those bruises and why she has blood on her face and clothes.
She cleans up. She goes to a AA meeting because of what happened.
She sees Martha on the train and hides. She remembers the night she made a big embarrassing scene at her barbecue, breaking a plate, swearing and being aggressive, shouting at her husband totally out of control.
When she gets back home, to her friend Cathy's home where she lives, there are a couple of detectives, asking about Megan, Tom's nanny.
Tom is her ex-husband, his wife is Anna and their baby is Ivy.
Detective Riley says that Megan has disappeared, and Rachel was seen in that area that Friday night. Rachel doesn't remember though.
Rachel was fired a year ago for her alcohol problem, but never told her friend. Every day she takes the train to New York anyway.
Rachel told Riley she doesn't know Megan, but then remembers the woman she saw from the train, and tells Riley that she had a lover.
4 months before
We see Megan talking to her therapist. She looks like a very troubled girl, making advances but he doesn't let her go on with that. He tells her that she's in an abusive relationship, with her husband Scott, but she denies, saying that it's not abuse if you don't care.
A very troubled woman.
Rachel goes to see Scott, she tells him lies about being Megan's friend, so that he will believe her when she tells him that she had a lover, and she confirms his suspicions that her doctor was her lover.
He's out of his mind. Trying to calm down he reasons that it might be a good thing, maybe Megan is alright and only ran away with her lover..
Scott tells the police about Abdik, and in return the doctor tells them that he was violent with her.
Tom sees Rachel around and thinks that she came there for him.
Rachel thinks she remembers something and shouts that Anna hit her.
Rachel goes to see Abdik as a patient, trying to find out more about him because he was released by the police because there are no proof that he might be involved in Megan's disappearance.
She tells him that she has memory loss, that she can't feel guilty about what she did because it doesn't feel like herself at all.
Anna is scared by Rachel, thinking she's stalking them and even tried to abduct her baby daughter, so she goes to the police, and when she speaks of all Rachel's phone calls, Riley questions if Tom is telling the truth, if maybe he's seeing her again.
A bit suspicious, Anna tries to spy on his computer, but can't find his password.
Scott tells Rachel that Megan was pregnant. She told her doctor but not her husband.
A month before.
Megan couldn't sleep and went to her doctor's house because she needed to tell him something, to say something out loud because it weighs on her. When she was 17 she had a daughter, and she held her to her body while taking a bath but she fell asleep and the baby fell and died.
Rachel tells the doctor of when she went to see her old house, and she saw Anna asleep so she took the baby, she only wanted to hold her but Anna freaked out when she saw her in the garden with her baby.
Megan's body is found, so it's now a murder investigation.
Anna sees Rachel outside Scott's house, watching the reporters, and fears for her baby but Rachel walks past her without a word.
Anna talks to Tom, remembering when she was 'the other woman', when Tom cheated on Rachel with her, and suggests Rachel might have killed Megan, but Tom shuts her up, saying Rachel is sad not violent.
Rachel comes back home to find Scott there. He's aggressive, says that the police questioned him, that they think the two of them are lovers, that now he knows that she didn't know his wife at all.
Luckily for her, he's scary and emotionally trying, but he doesn't hurt her.
She goes to the police to accuse Scott, but Riley says that he has a solid alibi.
Last Friday
Megan found out that she was pregnant and she called her doctor to come to her house. She needed help, consoling, and he hold her, when Rachel saw them from the train.
There was maybe one kiss, but they were never lovers, he was trying to help her, she was lost and troubled and needed help.
Rachel sees Marta on the train again but this time she doesn't hide, she confronts her and apologises many times for her behaviour, but then the big switch of the movie happened.
Marta tells her that she did nothing wrong, she didn't feel well after drinking too much so she went to lie down on a bed, but Tom insisted to take her home and shouted at her while she just apologised.
Rachel thought that Tom got fired because of what she did, but Martha says that he got fired because he slept around too much, she says that she did nothing wrong, and now Rachel remembers things the way they went, Tom shouting at her, breaking the mirror at home, insulting her and being aggressive.
Anna still can't find the password to Tom's computer, but she finds a phone in his bag, and she finds out that it's Megan's phone.
Rachel tries to remember by going to the same place where she got all bloody on the ground that night. Now she remembers Megan going away in Tom's car, and it was Tom who pushed her down and hit her face with his keys. A man living nearby tried to help her up but she cursed him making him go away.
Rachel goes to see Anna, tells her that Tom is a liar but Anna says she knows that Tom has cheated on her many times, but she doesn't want to leave him. Rachel says that he killed Megan but Anna doesn't want to believe that, says that they don't know what happened, but then Tom appears and Anna goes inside with the baby.
Rachel doesn't let it go and shouts that he saw him with Megan that night. Now Anna admits that she found Megan's phone.
Rachel says that she knows now that he always lied to her, making her believe that it was all her fault, that she did horrible things when it was not true.
He tries to make her drink but she refuses. He hits her.
We see now what happened that night, Megan went to the woods with Tom and he thought she wanted sex but she wanted to tell him that she was pregnant. He said she needed to abort, she says she never planned to force him if he doesn't want to get involved, he told her she'd be a horrible mom, that he kept her as a nanny because it was fun to have her in the house. He tries to make her leave but they fight, she pushes him, he pushes back and she falls and hits her head. Accident? Oh no, he kicks her head a couple of times, hides her body and since she's not dead yet he hits her with a big rock multiple times !
Tom still tries to pin it on Rachel, saying it was her fault, that nothing would have happened if she had left them in peace, which is obviously bullshit and Rachel doesn't fall for it anymore. She tries to leave but he stops her and almost strangles her, but she hits him and runs out. Tom runs after her and Rachel stabs his neck with a bottle opener.
Anna sees him on the ground all bloody and pushes the opener more.
Both women are taken away by the police and questioned. Rachel says that it was legitimate defence, that he would have killed her like he killed Megan, and luckily Anna says the same thing, that he would have killed her, and that Rachel was right.
Good.
The last scene shows Rachel on the train again. I think she's now moving on, but for real this time, not like she was 'moving on from her divorce' when she kept drinking and going to their house.
Maybe this time she won't start drinking again and things will get better.
Rachel - Emily Blunt
Megan - Haley Bennett
Anna - Rebecca Ferguson
Scott - Luke Evans
Tom - Justin Theroux
Dr Kamal Abdik - Edgar Ramirez
Cathy - Laura Prepon
Detective Riley - Allison Janney
Martha - Lisa Kudrow
ITA la ragazza del treno
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