The thriller that took the world by storm in 2014. Based on the novel of the same name, it went on to inspire many more like it.
Nick Dunn (Ben Affleck) and his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) are that couple; the one you can’t help but hate because they seem so perfect. They’re so perfect, and know you can’t compete so you end up wanting to punch them in the face.
After Nick’s mother gets sick, the two of them move back to his childhood home town in Missouri. Whilst Nick jumps head first into the change by buying a bar with his twin sister, Amy is left to her own devices in a dying town, far away from her parents and friends.
A closer inspection of their relationship is thrust under the public microscope when Amy disappears and Nick is the prime suspect. Suddenly it looks like their lives may not have been so amazing after all.
I think the main thing I have to say about Gone Girl is how well Nick and Amy were cast. Ben Affleck’s face best portrayed one of distrust and indifference which was key to how the audience saw Nick, and Rosamund Pike was that broken glass beauty that you wanted to touch even though you knew it would cut you.
Secondly, without giving anything away; the movie transitions seamlessly from the first half to the second.
Until I read the book last month I had no idea what Gone Girl was about, but I have to say; the movie is pretty damn close to the novel – so close that if you watched the movie first, I wouldn’t bother with the book. It’s a pretty unsurprising claim considering the screenplay was in fact written by the author herself; Gillian Flynn.
Gone Girl is a pretty F’d up tale and though I would call it a quietly psychological thriller – it was well cast, interesting and perfectly condensed a lot of what was in the book.
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