Off the rails: The real mystery of "The Girl on the Train" is why it never gets on track
Salon“The Girl on the Train” should have been left on the shelf. In “The Girl on the Train,” characters speak not like human beings with motivations but like murder suspects whose every utterance must heighten the audience’s suspicion. “The Girl on the Train” films these many carnal encounters in a filtered high gloss that appears to have been lifted from Sam Taylor-Johnson’s BDSM-lite adaptation of “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Everything is blue, grey, and too tasteful, the kind of trash that thinks it's Oscar-bait. Whereas Fincher’s film was a subversive and witty commentary on modern gender politics, “The Girl on the Train” is merely tawdry, the kind of movie that might have starred Sharon Stone or Demi Moore in the mid-’90s. In “Gaslight,” Ingrid Bergman plays Paula, a woman whose husband, Gregory, attempts to convince her that she’s insane.
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