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They couldn't have gotten away with it

posted 8 years ago by Jimmy-128
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The whole point of gathering these particular ten people together is that each one has committed a murder that the law can't touch. But I have slight problems with these three cases:

General MacArthur: How could he possibly have gotten away with shooting another officer from behind *in his office*, with no one else near them and no incoming fire?

Mr. and Mrs. Rogers: When you hold a pillow over someone's face to smother them, the front teeth leave imprints on the inside of the upper lip. My knowledge of forensic history is a little rusty--I know about when fingerprint technology was first used, but that's about it. So does anyone know if the police would have known to look for this in the 1930s?

Blore: Likewise, I know little about police attitudes in the 1930s, but it would be fairly obvious that Blore killed Landor. Would it have been swept under the rug, or would Blore have been charged?

[–] CharlesTheBold 8 years ago

Good points -- and these are exactly the cases where the adaptation changed the crime. Christie's original doesn't have any of these flaws.

[–] prinzHSV 8 years ago

since we´re not told whose memory the flash-backs mirror it simply could be the judges or the murderers memorising that they "might as well" had killed them directly

just a random thought though

[–] Jimmy-128 8 years ago

Mr. Owen isn't in the room when the General, Mrs. Rogers, and Blore have their flashbacks, so how could they have been from his point of view?

[–] prinzHSV 8 years ago

he heard the stories about them so he knows what happend but not exactly how it happend

[–] Jimmy-128 8 years ago

But that doesn't mean that *we* are seeing the flashback from his point of view. Not unless we're going to blend science fiction in and make Mr. Owen a clairvoyant.