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Yes, it's awful, but Hercule did fall in love...

posted 15 years ago by Bladerunner
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A few people have written reviews expressing their revulsion with this modernization of this Christie classic. I agree, it is dreadful, however many have also expressed their consternation at Poirot having a relationship with a woman. While I do agree, that it is most doubtful that Poirot ever consummated his relationship, he did fall in love - in the canon - with a Russian jewel thief.

He met her in The Double Clue (Poirot's Early Cases) as the Countess Vera Rossakoff and in that tale he allowed her to escape justice. They meet two other times in the canon and in each Poirot expresses his affection for her, she is a nightclub owner (as in this movie) and he of course, an aging, famous detective.

"...nothing is left of me, each time I see her..." - Catullus

[–] JaneBingley 9 years ago

Poirot did not fall in love with Vera Rosakoff. Sometimes he let the culprit get away, if he felt sorry for them. He is disgusted by her lifestyle, and he sees her later because she needs help with her son.

The one woman Poirot admired the most, because she was both soft, maternal and a businesswoman, was Rosamund Darnley from Evil under the Sun.
Again, in a non sexual way.

[–] sanddragon939 9 years ago

Vera Rosakoff is essentially Poirot's 'Irene Adler'. In the actual canon, an attraction is only alluded to, but as with Adler, adaptations have tended to emphasize that attraction to the point of an actual relationship.

Yes, it's awful, but Hercule *did* fall in love...

Yes, it's awful, but Hercule did fall in love...