Title: Gone Girl
Language: English
Genre: Mystery & Suspense, Drama
Directed by: David Fincher
Runtime: 2 hr 25 min
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Ratings: 7/10
Ratings: 7/10
Summary:
Directed by David Fincher and based upon the global bestseller by Gillian Flynn - unearths the secrets at the heart of a modern marriage. On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
Review:
I think it's one of the best book-based films I have ever watched. Gone Girl tells a story about a modern marriage that was crumbling, that has found to be out of love. Nick, an out of work writer and an owner of a bar ran with his sister. And Amy Dunne, too an out of work writer that has her life inspired by a children's book by her parents. It started with Amy, appearing to be taken by someone - or did she?
Amy who appears to be the most perfect wife was actually a psycho that needed to get everything she wants. To be appeared as the attention, who wanted her husband to want her as much as she did. Unfolding a few secrets at a time and finally opening a story of Amy, who wasn't as she seems; a demeaning psychopath.
Honest to god, I would watch this again and I am reading the book. Yeah, it was that good. It is somehow appears to be just another book-based film, but it is simply more than that. The plot came to be perfectly synchronized, the kind of film that you actually need to pay attention on. To me this film affected me in various reasoning. A. I am now afraid of getting married, that the risk of marrying a normal-looking psychopath is very high, B. that someone can manipulate and influence the perception of themselves. and C. it's a good fucking film.
Probably I'm not a fan of Ben Affleck, and at first it was shown that he is the bad guy. But after falsifying the allegations, the proof wasn't actually the truth. I think this film is actually a bit more complicated for me to explain through a lengthwise review, but I can tell you that this film hits all the right places. Intelligent and mysterious, it would confuse the watchers from time to time, but it is worth watching the ending - another twist that is yet to be uncovered. So all credits to director David Fincher, who has proved to work a film into art.
