Girl On The Train Sociology

Adapted from Paula Hawkins' best-selling mystery drama novel, The Girl on the Train stars Emily Blunt as an alcoholic who becomes obsessed with a missing persons case.

The film focuses on Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt), a woman who suffers from unemployment and tries to return to her normal life after a divorce from her husband, Tom (Justin Theroux). She spends her days making hopeless train journeys to observe her former husband and his new wife, Anna (Rebecca Ferguson), in the home she once lived in. She becomes infatuated with a couple who live nearby, Megan (Haley Bennett) and Scott Hipwell (Luke Evans). Rachel is under the pretence that the Hipwells are the perfect couple.

One night when Rachel is intoxicated, things get mixed up. She

With Rachel, the audience become aware that nothing is as simple as it seems and find themselves questioning the events that unfold in the psychological drama. The film is scripted in a manner which effectively leads the audience to find something about themselves within the narrative.

The audience view the film from a female perspective, allowing them to explore the issues of manipulative men who take advantage of the weakness of women, and men who destroy the self-confidence of women. Audiences are left to decide if these issues are the realities of the implied male-dominated world.

Rachel’s narration is an important feature of the narrative as it allows the audience to observe the internal psychological conditions of a woman who envies the world of others lives through. Although viewers feel content towards Rachel for some of her regrettable actions in the duration of the film, she redeems herself by the end, ultimately being right about the murder case of Megan Hipwell.

Despite some of the ideas portrayed about the male-dominated world, the plot conveys the idea that no one is really good, nor is anyone really