Video service international falls began showing the mini-series Pascal Laugier “there was ten of Them” (Ils etaient dix) — sixteenth for 75 years, the film adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel “Ten little Indians”. According to Mikhail Trofimenkov, the original text is so universal that all frantoiana and sovremennyh hopelessly mess up a good thing Laugier failed.The novel “Ten little Indians”, published in the fateful year 1939 Requiem for postvictorian society, is both a great detective who Christie has repeatedly tried to construct, and quite a mystical treatise. British detective from Chesterton to Graham Greene’s carries a strong metaphysical charge. Christie wrote no less as a tragedy about the suicide of God: according to Borges, is one of the four eternal themes of world literature. Version Christie, God was the judge of Toronto, lured to a deserted island and nine people are objectively guilty of first-degree murder, but escaped punishment due to defects of social organization.Literally to film “Ten little Indians” is meaningless. Much more interesting, what makes Laugier, to transfer the action to the new times. However, the result is predictable. Well, at the time Christie did not exist non-governmental organizations that build hospitals in the ever-developing world, but the hypocrisy of them successfully inherited from the charitable funds of the 1930-ies. Well, Yes, in our days the pregnancy of a maid is unlikely to be the reason for her dismissal and suicide, but this conflict is different from killing girls, the perfect mother and raped her, the bastard, just successfully admitted to the prestigious National school of administration. White Sahib in the 1930s were doomed to starvation by the natives as relaxed as immigrant merchants meat “fog of combat” hundreds of people suffocated in the red-hot sun vans. Oh and from Afghanistan heroes with bloody fangs back consistently as a century and a half.Already in 1943, Christie was frightened by his total pessimism and turned the novel into a play with unbearable fake happy ending. And if the film is Laugier genuine suspense, it is precisely this which version — hell or optimistic — he will choose. Judging by the fact that the writers dragged to a canonical plot of some police officers, who happened to be on a neighbouring island like Haiti, they are ready to please the audience more or less triumphant justice.And yet, of course, suspense is who will be the modern God. Psycho-“the Afghan” (Samuel Le Byan)? TV guru (Patrick Miy), “white outside, black inside,” how delightfully politically incorrect he characterizes his companion in misfortune? A female sniper with a print of a quarter century of service to … native police station (Novel Bringe)? But it is by and large a secondary question.The beauty and horror of the novel Christy last but not least was the fact that she was the flesh of the Victorian era. And judgment to administer primly, calmly, in an extremely comfortable setting, with observance of the social graces. Roughly speaking, hysterical characters fell after about the sixth or seventh murder. Laugier at all goes bad from the start. Cozy hotel from the novel turns into a slum without food and water. Mobile communication burns at times. In closets, hang blood-stained jackets. On the trails the heroes waiting for that for your “Ho Chi Minh trail”, wolf, sorry, the snake pit. From refrigerators ominously grinning porcelain Marilyn Monroe. The boathouse roll the heads of mannequins. In General, the thunder, the earth shakes, on the bed Scorpio rushes. And well used even if one Scorpio — the whole company.However, immortal and inhuman morality Christy series, it seems, has managed to maintain. And the moral of this is simple: no pity, no.
