The Woman In Cabin 10 completely changes the ending of the book – does it work?

Don’t dress up to any formal dinners if you haven’t watched “The Woman in Cabin 10” on Netflix yet — Huge spoilers Lay ahead!

Keira Knightley’s latest movies“The woman in cabin 10” Based on Ruth Weir’s 2016 thriller novel of the same namefinally on Netflix… And if you, like me, read Weir’s novel and then watched the movie, you know that the ending is different completely Largely on screen. Does it work? Actually, yes!

Let’s start at the beginning, though I’ve heard that’s a nice place and probably a very good place to start. In the film, Knightley plays Lauren “Lou” Blacklock, an investigative journalist who has faced something horrific as a victim of her job, but, determined to keep going, takes a “relaxing” assignment from her editor (played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw in a small, frankly thankless role) to board a luxury yacht called the Aurora and write about her experience. The expedition, led by the wealthy Richard Bulmer (Guy Pearce) and his even wealthier wife Anne (Lisa Loven Kongsley), includes a handful of people, including other executives, but Lou is stunned to see her ex-boyfriend and fellow journalist Ben (David Ajala) on board as well. After Lo was brought to her cabin number eight, she tried to avoid crossing paths with Ben in the ship’s corridors and rushed into cabin number 10 to hide, finding the door open; Inside she meets a woman who says her name is Carrie (Jet Witt).

Late that night, after a formal dinner, Lou awakens in the night and hears startling noises followed by a splash of water – and it certainly looks as if the titular woman in cabin No. 10 has fallen into the sea, or perhaps she has. thrown. No one believes her, because no one was staying in cabin 10 in the first place. So, how is this resolved differently from the book?

In short, the way the book ends is this: Carrie, who is Richard Bulmer’s secret lover, watches Richard kill Anne to secure her family’s fortune for himself (the film adds the detail that Anne plans to donate her entire fortune to charity to the exclusion of Richard entirely, and because she is in the final stages of cancer, she… He is He will die soon). Carrie asks Lo to help foil his plan, so she asks Lo to impersonate her and escape the boat; Unfortunately, when Lou threw herself into the water to save herself, she lost Carrie’s passport and any other personal details she might need to impersonate her. or that. Lo is nearly caught by Richard’s forces on the beach, but she escapes, and subsequently, Carrie sends her a large sum of money after finding Richard’s body; Although his death is ruled a suicide, Lou knows that Carrie killed him.

The movie has a lot More action-packed climax. Although Lo discovers Carrie and Richard’s terrible deception, Carrie traps Lo for a while before allowing her to escape. While trying to get off the ship, Lou encounters some of Richard’s staff on the boat, including the doctor who has been “treating” Anne, Robert Mehta (Art Malik). Ben tries to save her, but Robert gets to him first and hits him with the syringe. Ben soon died, and Lou jumped out of the boat. Unlike the book, where she goes to an attractive hotel to discover that the staff there are being paid by the Bullmers, she arrives safely ashore, warms herself by the fire in a quiet, empty cabin, and sets off to attend a party where she knows that Richard and the false Anne, Carrie, will celebrate the fact that she has changed her will. This is where things get very interesting.

Lo shows up at Bullmer’s party, where Richard is showing Carrie around and forcing her to pretend to be Anne, and she is willing to tell the truth. When she reads a letter Carrie gave her – written by Anne – expressing her firm desire to donate her money and leave Richard out of the institution, Richard becomes angry. When all his friends and colleagues understand that Lou is telling the truth (and Carrie, as Anne, supports her), Richard Carrie takes Ann out of the gathering, clearly intending to kill her.

Fortunately, that’s when one of Richard’s seemingly loyal employees, played by Amanda Cullen, intervenes. Although Lo tries desperately to save Carrie and defeat Richard, the red-headed woman gets there first and shoots Richard with a rifle she seized from a nearby barn, allowing Lo to intervene and embrace Carrie. Later, when she returns to work, Lo receives a letter from Carrie, who has reunited with her daughter and is eternally grateful to Lo for her help and support.

This, it can be said, road It’s much more interesting to watch on screen than the gorgeous but more subdued ending of the novel by Ruth Weir, so I certainly understand why director Simon Stone and screenwriters Joe Shrapnell and Anna Waterhouse decided to change the dynamic here. However, Ware fans need to know that there is a pretty big departure here, but honestly? I think both ends work with their respective media.

Decide for yourself and watch “The Woman in Cabin No. 10”, A worthy psychological thriller in either formstreaming on Netflix.