The silent patient movie1/2/2023 It has to be one of the most influential thrillers ever made. Jonathan Demme’s version of Thomas Harris’s book is, in my opinion, even better than the novel. And the Mediterranean is such a beautiful backdrop to Dickie’s murder. It’s another stunning exercise in glamour, nostalgia, and psychopathy. Tom’s longing for love and his inability to connect, much as he wants to, is dramatized so powerfully and showed me a dark and troubled antihero could be as relatable as a more traditional hero. It was the first time I saw a film enter the mind of a murderer with such empathy. The Anthony Minghella film, adapted from the book by Patricia Highsmith, had a massive effect on me as a teenager. Regardless of whether or not you’ve read this classic, you need to see the film. The final monologue by Finney, when he reveals the identity of the murderer, is a bravura performance. It’s one of my favorite films to curl up with-I love every scene so much. The original 1974 Sidney Lumet movie, starring Albert Finney as detective Hercule Poirot, elevates Agatha Christie’s classic mystery into a meditation on nostalgia and glamour. I think the most powerful scene in most thrillers is often the murder itself, and in this film, the moment the family is shot in their living room while watching an opera is brutal and shocking. I think these five book-to-screen adaptations are among the best ever made.ĭirected by Claude Chabrol, this adaptation of Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell, about an illiterate housekeeper who kills her employers “because she could not read” is as unsettling and haunting as the book. I’ve been reading mystery writers like Agatha Christie since my childhood and I’ve always been a little obsessed with Alfred Hitchcock, so needless to say, I enjoy reading and watching intelligent thrillers that have some kind of emotional depth. I studied English Literature and was a screenwriter before writing my first novel, The Silent Patient-a psychological thriller about a woman who shoots her husband five times and then never speaks again. I love the combination of cinema and literature.
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