Factual error: Both the Yugoslav police officers Poirot is speaking to at the end are black. The chances of a black person serving in the Yugoslav police in the 1930s were zero.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
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Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Daisy Ridley
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Hercule Poirot: My name is Hercule Poirot, and I am probably the greatest detective in the world.
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Answer: Dickens used satire, irony, and humor as a means to express social criticism and political commentary. His novels were filled with comical characters and colorful dialogue. He used a humorous writing style to expose the Industrial Revolution's harsh and negative impacts like poor education, worker exploitation, social inequality, and other societal ills such as extreme poverty, domestic violence, alcoholism, and so on. Poirot is obviously responding to that.
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