The plot :
The story starts with the former New York based writer Nick Dunne(Ben Affleck) and his marvelous wife Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) portray a heavenly marriage to the outside world. The story details a media frenzy and shifting suspicion as the lady (Amy Dunne) vanishes, and her husband (Nick Dunne) gradually becomes the prime suspect. This leads to tantalizing questions about who Nick and Amy really are. Revealing the ‘primal’ questions of marriage “What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other?”
The cast :
Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon, Kim Dickens & Patrick Fugit.
The team:
David Fincher (Director) & Gillian Flynn (Writer)
The running time:
149 minutes (2hr 29 minutes, quick math)
Review:
Gillian Flynn adopts her best selling mystery thriller, although I have not read the book, this is a suspense novel which sits right for the screens with fight club director David Fincher. To make GONE GIRL one of the most suspenseful cinematic thrillers of all time, Fincher embarks on the maze-like plot with brutal drama.
The story is gripping and intelligent, its flawed characters are fleshed out and fascinating. The tension built up is masterfully done .
I will not be going through the plot in much detail because the plot IS the entire movie. The couple lives in beautiful Missouri suburbs. Nick comes home on the day of their 5th anniversary to find a smashed table and a missing wife. Did Nick Dunne kill his wife or did he not? We don’t know but he becomes the prime suspect and so the search begins.
The way Nick and Amy meet for the first time is almost too cliche but don’t be fooled by the slight rom-com opening in the initial scenes of the low light setting from the flashback.
Affleck’s celebrity is under the radar enough to play the everyman, who also has an angry side. Nick’s twin sister Margo, played by Carrie Coon, brings support through the drama, a pillar in a well structured building and the most rationalized character in the film .There is Tyler Perry, in what is most likely his best performance ever (What a bold and smart casting decision), as the Johnnie Cochran-like lawyer. Neil Patrick Harris as Amy’s obsessive ex-boyfriend, and then there is Pike. The choice of the UK actress is what makes the film. She was chosen over names like Portman and Witherspoon, and thank god. Casting Pike allows us to truly believe this is the girl. She is blonde. She is so pretty you could kill her.
Gone girl not only entertains but engraves the viewers into its own little tales of mystery and thriller.
At the end of the movie, it had me contemplating the fact we as humans do we truly know the people we love? That rhetorical question is scarier than any horror movie could show us.
It’s fair to say that this is one creepy masterpiece and one deliciously twisted meal, which you will be consuming and would not want to stop!!
You’ll get no spoilers here, and do yourself a favor and don’t google the ending because we are better than that!!
Honorable mention:
THE COOL GIRL MONOLOGUE by Amy Elliot Dunne
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