![]() ![]() My personal favorite is Carrie Coon as Nick's caring yet foul-mouthed sister Margo. You'll also see Neil Patrick Harris and Tyler Perry in unusual roles. Ben Affleck is great as the insipid husband Nick. I've never seen anything like it, and I can't praise Fincher enough for the risk he took with the last half an hour of this movie. ![]() The last act isn't a thriller anymore, it's a grotesque caricature of modern relationships. It's the point where "Gone Girl" becomes a pitch-black social satire. The much-maligned ending underlines this insight perfidiously. When everyone plays along, the shallow masks are going to work. The movie suggests that pretending and being are not as far apart as we tend to think. As his lawyer Tanner Bolt puts it: "This case is about what people think of you." Amy and Nick both just play a character. Nick Dunne has to adapt to the expectations of the public in order to survive. The main topic here is how the media are shaping our own identities. "Gone Girl" is a perfect fit for Fincher, as it is concerned with two of his favorite themes: gender issues and modern media. Flynn herself wrote the screenplay for the movie adaptation, and David Fincher turns the already disturbing story into something even darker. But what if he really is the murderer everyone believes him to be? "Gone Girl", based on the Gillian Flynn novel of the same name, is a masterful thriller, a sharp-sighted media satire and a cynical analysis of modern marriage. Did he kill his wife? The media depict him as an uncaring husband, and he's trying desperately to correct that image. One morning, Amy disappears without a trace, and Nick becomes suspect. But infidelity and financial troubles let the glamorous façade crumble. The immaculate dream couple? It seems so, at least on the face of it. I'm not looking for sympathy or anything, I'm just stating a fact that happened to me, I don't advise watching this for the first time with a love partner, it could unhinge the mind beyond a point of no return, I'm absolutely 100% serious about this, this is not a joke.Īmy and Nick Dunne are young, stylish and charming. So for as much as I do appreciate the detailed and intriguing story, watching it years later after my divorce it sends chills through my body knowing that my ex wife and I enjoyed this movie together, and obviously me not knowing just how much she loved it but how it inspired her to go about divorcing me in the way that she did, be weary because there are sick people (men and women) in this world that will vindictively assassinate someone else's character and well being just to avenge whatever perversion that they're transfixed on in their own mind. The shorts version I can tell you and with my hand to God no lie this movie single handedly put the nail in the coffin for my marriage without me even being the wiser. There's no denying that this is a great film and from what I've heard a great book as well, you can see that I gave it a 9/10 rating, but there's a catch especially for me personally with this movie. ![]()
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