The Girl On The Train was written by Paula Hawkins and published back in 2015. The book, ranked New York Times Fiction Best Seller, is now a major motion picture coming out on October 8, 2016. The book, being a huge success according to The Wall Street Journal, now leads the author’s fans to question whether the movie will depict the books events perfectly. “The book is always better than the movie,” might just be proven wrong. The book was good, but will the movie meet the books standards? The basic story plot is about a girl (Rachel Watson) who takes the train every morning to London. She passes by the same homes and one day notices something abnormal from the train window. Without knowing, this event later becomes an important missing persons investigation, with Rachel Watson tangled right in the middle.  

After viewing the trailer, the movie clips seem to capture what the author intends her readers to visualize. I only expect that the rest of the movie should be as thrilling as the book. However, I won’t be setting my expectations too high for the movie because nothing beats reading a book and being able to interpret the events in one’s own mind. Also, trailers can be misleading so who knows if the rest of the movie captures the book’s scenes perfectly. Hopefully after watching the movie I will be able to leave the theater with the same chilling effect as the book, and to be sitting on “the edge of my seat.”

In an interview at the world premiere of the movie, Emily Blunt (the actor who plays Rachel Watson) addresses how fans of the book add their own interpretation of the scenes, and her hopes for capturing these scenes correctly: “You hope that what you do, and what’s realized on the screen is similar to what they envisioned.” With this said, many aspects of her statement are true: different people can view what they read in many ways. The movie is just one of many interpretations taken from the book, everyone’s imagination creating different visions of what the characters and setting looked like. In the same interview, the interviewer states “You do drunk brilliantly.” The interviewer, who has seen the world premier, gave me another reason to believe this movie should do decent job at depicting the book’s scenes. In the book Rachel Watson is an alcoholic who never really maintains a sober state, she’s always drinking. Knowing now that Emily Blunt played Rachel Watson’s drunk scenes “Brilliantly,” I expect nothing less but to see Emily Blunt play Rachel Watson’s character pretty well.