Mum's Monday: And Then There Were None (Film Adaptation of the Book by Agatha Christie)

This film based is on the poem ’10 Little Indians’ and almost writes itself. However, working out the 10 characters, their background stories and how to get them on to the island is well thought out, well written but complicated. The poem is such a morbid rhyme, so therefore perfect for an Agatha Christie mystery. The adaptation of the poem, to then carry out the murders is cleverly devised. Being on an island there are limitations but the murderer works it all out brilliantly.    

At the beginning the film reminds me of going on a coach holiday, a group of strangers having to spend time together travelling around. Except this is based in a house on an island and so no escape as you can, once you are off a coach.

All the characters are guilty or accused of an indirect murder or death of another, but got away with it on a technicality. Even the butler and his wife Thomas and Ethel Rogers (Richard Haydn and Queenie Leonard) are included in the 10 guilty party.  The only alibi proving any of the 10, are not the murderer is to be found deceased themselves.

The characters become resourceful but they all have the usual characteristics of someone trying to save their own life. You end up feeling for them and it feels like whilst watching it you are living it with them as you don’t know who, how or even why at the time. What is happening.

As always after watching an Agatha Christie film, it leaves you in shock, this one also left me exhausted as well, having lived it with the characters and like them not knowing what’s happened until the end.

If you have seen this film and know someone who hasn’t, remember don’t give it away and spoil it.