“Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]”
We all know there is one Belgian detective that we admire and appreciate, brought to life by one great actor - David Suchet. Why did I choose to write about him? It is because I honestly believe it to be the only television series that makes me want to watch it over and over again, that never loses its charm and elegance. Spending time watching Poirot exercising his little grey cells is something ideal whenever I get some free time.
Oh, how I love to see this little Belgian man in David Suchet. Such a funny, brilliant man he brings to life: tidy, orderly, a man that enjoys symmetry and being alone. The character of Poirot was created in 1916, by the great Dame Agatha Christie, and he appeared since in 33 novels and 65 short stories and is "the only fictional character to be honored with a front page obituary on The New York Times." (poirot.us)
His interest in psychology, behaviorism, not doing the "dirty" police work, as in taking fingerprints and settling with the obvious it is quite fascinating to me. People are such complex beings, hard to read through the surface, but usually vulnerable and full of emotions on the inside. Our skins, our eyes, our gestures keep a trace of the events we have been through. We dissimulate, we open up, we struggle, we persevere, we love deeply, we forgive, we recover, we suffer, we endure, we win, we feel ecstatic, we are...human.
And Hercule Poirot knows how to take advantage of that.
Picture by Rex Features - www.telegraph.co.uk
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