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| Here, you see, a very lost man, not knowing the game is rigged against him. |
David Fincher has a way of playing with an audience with his
anti-"good guy always win" stance. Gone Girl is another example of
him pulling the strings on all of us expecting that one character is going to
finally get one over the other, only for the tables to turn against him again,
just in a more subtle fashion. Based on the novel, written by Gillian Flynn,
who also wrote Gone Girl is about how typical murders are treated in the
mainstream press and how married relationships fall and could get resuscitated.
You have your accused killer, Nick Dunne, played by Ben Affleck and your
"victim", Amy Dunne, played by Rosamund Pike. These roles are played
out as a satire of how murders are portrayed by perception from media
companies, people misconception and the portrayal of marriage by the two, as
one plays a game with everyone just to make a point to a loved one. Is it
exaggerated? Yes, but that's really the point in all these scandals being
covered on various media outlets that do this for money: Use exploitation as a
weapon. Not that's a bad thing, though, it happens a lot with whatever court
case you happen to be watching on television.
The thing that
Gone Girl succeeds at, is how Pike basically plays everyone into thinking how
she was the one who suffered through the ordeal that her husband put her
through; one push was too much for her, so she plotted how to smear him in
order to take me back into my arms without criminally implicating herself. It's
honestly some of the crazies stuff that I've ever seen in cinema history; and,
the way she does it without the narrative changing against her was interesting.
Fincher, time and time again, gets the best out of his cast, which I think is
why you see such superb performances from Rosamund, Affleck and Tyler Perry (no
joke, he's great here). Neil Patrick Harris give a great performance as he
plays a character who was once Amy's boyfriend.
I can say flatly
that, I haven't read this book, as of this blog post, but I will be in due
time, because there is more that I want to know after learning the tropes of
this film. Some publications have criticized it for being misogynistic and
accusing some of the actors of having overwrought lines, but, I didn't really
come across much of those complaints. That being said, on the other hand, sure,
some of the people may come across as cold and not capable of having
compassion. Then again, that's usually what troubled people would sound like if
he or she may sound if they, you know, lack compassion.
In closing, for
such an awesome movie, I did a lot of laughing, not for
"hate-watching" but the scenarios that took place were sort of out of
a place from cable news programs. Sela Ward & Missi Pyle play caricatures
of cable news personalities and it's humorous because that what Cable TV is:
humorous with a large splash of ridiculous. Also, don't worry about trying to
read the book before you see the movie; it stands on its own if you aren't
inquiring the context of the book. It's that good.
Bad: That you might fall for the sociopath at the end.
5 out of 5
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