A Perfect Murder

In May 2020, I watched A Perfect Murder on TV for the first time. The leads are Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow. Viggo Mortensen costars with them. The movie is a remake of the 1954 movie Dial M for Murder directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

It tells a story about a husband who plans to murder his beautiful wife. The wife has had an affair with a man and she is wealthy. The husband has had a tremendous debt and just wants her fortune not being jealous so much.

The quality of the suspense movie is not even average, though I want to watch the old Hitchcock's one because it has high public approval ratings.

In the movie I was fascinated only by Gwyneth Paltrow as the beautiful wife. She played well and was really pretty. I basically like plump ladies, so I had not been supposed to like her. I, however, was really attracted by the slender lady.

The actress reminds me a girl who was a big fan of Paltrow and used to work with me a long time ago. The colleague was very difficult but she liked movies, so we could chat only about our favorite ones and actors. One day, I saw the tall girl arguing with her boyfriend in a supermarket in the neighborhood. She then was speaking roughly and she looked like Julia Roberts playing a strong-minded and emotional woman, so a few days later, I teased her about it at work. It was fun. She loved the two famous actress who had not interested me at all but became my favorite ones thanks to her. I usually am not ready to see emerging actors, so I really appreciate someone like her giving me an opportunity to pay attention to them. Then her beloved movie, Pretty Woman, had never concerned me until she recommended it. I did not like romances but I watched it anyway. Now, I have been glad to watch it because the romance has been a good stimulus when I meet a woman who has watched it. Besides, the good movie has been popular among women. Sadly, it has recently not been popular among younger generation, though. I will value a meeting someone like the coworker. 

Michael Douglas and Viggo Mortensen who acted the adulterer are known as skillful actors but in the movie both of them were just supporting ones highlighting the stunner, Gwyneth Paltrow, from my point of view.