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Oct 2, 2014 · “Gone Girl” is a nightmare of love gone cold and a relationship gone south, coupled with an elaborate revenge fantasy that both exploits and reclaims sexist images and assumptions. It’s also a film about a psychopath who turns an ordinary life into chaos.
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Dark, intelligent, and stylish to a fault, Gone Girl plays to director David Fincher's sick strengths while bringing the best out of stars Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. Read Critics Reviews
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Sep 25, 2014 · “Gone Girl,” David Fincher’s movie adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best seller, focuses on a young wife who goes missing.
- David Fincher
- Manohla Dargis
- 149 min
Lead by an all star cast featuring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Tyler Perry and Neil Patrick Harris, Gone Girl rises above the pack with smart storytelling, phenomenal pacing and perfect performances. What Gone Girl does so brilliantly is taps into the audience's psyche regarding marriage and the ideology behind a sanctioned union that is corrupt.
- Where's Amy?
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By Roth Cornet
Posted: Oct 2, 2014 1:05 pm
Warning: This is a spoiler free review, but if you want to genuinely be surprised, go in as blank as possible. Don't watch any clips and wait to read what people are saying about this film until after you see it....
Amazing Amy's vanished, but the real truth is that Amazing Amy never existed at all.
That's not a spoiler. It's really the core of what this film is about. If you haven't read Gillian Flynn's obsessively addictive page turner, then rest assured that Gone Girl is rich with scintillating, fascinating, and ultimately gut-wrenching twists, but never do we discover that it's all been some elaborate Kafkaesque nightmare or the fantasy of an unhinged mind. Though, minds are indeed unhinged.
Gone Girl unearths the methods human beings use to deceive themselves and one other about who they really are. It reveals the ways in which the sunny masks that we present to the world are stripped away over the course of a relationship, leaving the partners raw and festering with disappointment, resentment, and rage. Rendering them each desperate to force the other back into the costume they donned in the early part of the romance, aching to once again see the brightest version of themselves reflected in their lovers eyes. And in that way, as much as Amy is gone, she was never really there to begin with. She was a projected illusion born of her husband’s desire to possess the “perfect” woman and himself become the “ideal” man. Gone Girl is about marriage; the worst, vilest, and toxic of marriages, but it's also about relationships at large, including the one we have with ourselves. Oh, and yes, as you are expecting, those themes are explored within the framework of a crafty and sharp little murder mystery.
Gone Girl is a powerful adaptation of a complex book told in the vein of a deliciously pulpy crime thriller. As in Gillian Flynn's novel, there's far more to this tale than initially meets the eye. For Gone Girl is ultimately the story of a tortured, noxious, violent relationship that is also, often, unnervingly relatable. [poilib element="accentDi...
- Roth Cornet
Gone Girl received highly positive reviews from critics, with Pike's performance in particular earning widespread acclaim. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 88%, based on 368 reviews, with an average rating of 8/10.
Sep 22, 2014 · Film Review: ‘Gone Girl’ Director David Fincher and stars Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck are at the top of their game in this mesmerizing adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel.
