Who will do these again in my lifetime now that he has ruined the magic of them? In this case, he transforms the clever narrative device into a journal that Poirot reads as we see the story unfold. Clive Exton, the adapter, is the long time defiler of Christie. And it is nearly impossible if you have to aim as low as a TeeVee audience. Just goes to show that it is very hard to do one of these untrusted narrator things in film. Kubrick was one over on the film side and still after all those viewings most people take him literally. And it is one that clever writers and filmmakers have been using for a long time. But what if the narrator is a character in the story and caught up in motivations from the fictional world? It is a fantastic idea, that of the untrusted narrator. In most cases, the writer's avatar is the narrator.
The detective story is a matter of intellectual battle between the reader and the writer for control over the larger arc of the story. The book on which this is based is one of the cleverest in all literature.
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