Gone Girl Review

Gone Girl is David Fincher’s masterpiece. His thrillers have always been my favorite. And he is truly a brilliant director. The film was amazing. How Fincher set it up is amazing. The first half and even the trailers set up Nick as a villain. If you showed someone the trailer without context they would say what the hell, Its obviously Nick, Thats so fucking obvious. Then the middle approaches and you see Amy driving away and she says, I am so happy to be dead. The viewer is like wait, What? Then she delivers the iconic cool girl monologue and we meet her for who she truly is as a person. And performance wise Ben Affleck is great. Probably his best performance in film, But Rosamund Pike as Amy is masterful. Amy Dunne is one of the greatest thriller villains of ALL TIME. What’s so amazing about her character is that Amy has been a character since she was a child. As a child she was the perfect child. The prodigy, “Amazing Amy”. That’s who she was in her parents books. So as a child to be perfect she created the identity of the golden, honor student. Then she grew up and became an adult, And she changed her character for adult life. And what’s one of the biggest staples of adult life? Dating. So she became “The Cool Girl”. The chill wife. She creates herself into a character to get ahead in life which was what Amazing Amy was and that’s what Amy Dunne, The cool girl was.  The viewer doesn’t even meet the true and psychopathic Amy Dunne until the middle when she delivers the iconic cool girl monologue. Then by the middle Nick manages to figure out what’s going on. And he realizes how crazy she was and he figures out he needs to play a character too to beat her in her own game. Fight fire with fire. He goes on the news. Is honest about the cheating and appears sympathetic. He is starting to get ahead and then enrages Amy. What’s going on with Amy at that point is she is playing the sympathetic character to her ex boyfriend. And she sees Nick trying to beat her at his own game. She planted all the evidence to make him seem like a psycho killer but no, He’s starting to look sympathetic. So she’s gonna look sympathetic too. But first. There’s something she has to do, Frame The ex boyfriend. This is the moment that shows her true self. The guy comes back to his house where Amy is staying. She invites him up to her bedroom and they start to have sex. What follows is one of the greatest moments in this film. Amy takes a knife and slashes his throat. Blood goes everywhere, lights flickering and intense music scored excellent by Trent Razor and Atticus Ross. She murders him and makes it brutal. Then she returns and claims she was raped by the man. Nick see’s through the bullshit though and they are stuck together. She plays the sympathetic role now and Nick is stuck with her. He is planning to leave her. Then he discovers she is pregnant. She stole his sperm from a clinic and is now pregnant. Nick is stuck now. He wants to leave her. He hates her, But he wants to protect his child. There is an interesting moment of dialogue between Nick and his Sister. She tries to tell him he could divorce her and try to get custody, But that won’t work. Nick says and she will win. They both know it. That’s her evil genius. And they are stuck together. This movie is Fincher’s masterpiece. Everything he is capable of and shows his pure genius. I love this film, And cannot say enough good things about it.