Review of The Girl on the Train (2016) by Roxanne D — 18 Dec 2017
Rachel projects a fantasy onto Megan. Of a wife deeply in love with her husband, and a husband who loves his wife with equal intensity. Megan doesn't live up to this fantasy, so Rachel calls her a whore.
Megan is still mourning the death of her daughter, that grief transformed into resentment which she then projects onto Anna, making her feel inadequate for being a stay at home mother. Anna is willfully ignorant about her husband, projecting that ignorance onto Rachel, insisting that she's the dangerous, abusive ex-spouse.
This movie is about the effect of one man on three women; but it's also about the relationship the three women have to each other. It's callous.
This review of The Girl on the Train (2016) was written by Roxanne D on 18 Dec 2017.
The Girl on the Train has generally received mixed reviews.
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