Pbs poirot5/12/2023 Poirot's brain is made of grey cells, not computer circuits. Surely a man as brilliant and cultured as he must either take such experiences to heart or not be a human being worth knowing or caring about. Then he witnesses the stoning of an adulteress in Ankara. Those who object to the introduction of Catholicism, etc., seem to ignore the way this version begins: Poirot watches his own methods of "justice" go terribly wrong when a military man whom he has proved to be a liar, and whom he castigates with terrible vehemence, commits suicide in front of him. The1974 film version with Finney turned the whole thing into high camp-not a bad idea! But this version brings new depths to the story and new resonances. For those of you who object to changing a word of Christie's books or altering (= developing) Poirot's character: there have been so many filmed versions of the story, what's the point of just doing the same thing over again? The script (by Stewart Harcourt) gives Suchet a chance to be more brilliant than ever, and modifies many details of the story in order to make it both more concise and in its own way more moving and more plausible.
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