{"id":10016,"date":"2015-01-02T00:02:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T22:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/?p=10016"},"modified":"2015-07-22T22:55:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T20:55:17","slug":"gone-girl-movie-review-gone-girl-starring-ben-affleck-rosamund-pike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/gone-girl-movie-review-gone-girl-starring-ben-affleck-rosamund-pike\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone Girl Movie Review: Gone Girl starring Ben Affleck & Rosamund Pike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(There are some spoilers.)<\/p>\n

Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck<\/a>)\u2019s beautiful wife Amy (Rosamund Pike<\/a>) is missing under suspicious circumstances. Police detective Boney (Kim Dickens) and officer Gilpin (Patrick Fugit) get right on the case, with Boney giving Nick the benefit of the doubt and Gilpin ready to blame Dunne.<\/p>\n

As the audience we\u2019re neither with Boney nor Gilpin: if he did it, it\u2019s too obvious. If he\u2019s innocent, also too obvious. But we know it\u2019s a David Fincher<\/a> movie, and it will probably not be black and white. And expectedly, things turn out to be all shades of grey:<\/p>\n

While Nick tries to manage his in-laws and the media reaction with the help of his twin sister Go, we see he\u2019s not exactly the doting husband he wants others to believe. He seems clueless about his wife\u2019s daily activities, friends or diary, and to top of it all, he\u2019s having an affair with a 20-year-old (and going to great lengths to hide it from others).<\/p>\n

From the beginning of the movie, we have some flashbacks, with the voice-over from Amy, guiding us through their relationship, from the great start to troubling times, until we see Nick\u2019s violent and dangerous side. And around the time cops are sure Nick\u2019s behind her disappearance, and possibly murder, we hear this brilliant line from Amy:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so much happier now that I\u2019m dead.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So yes, she\u2019s making a run for it to make Nick pay for being a lying, cheating bastard. And if you think she is taking things too far, just wait till you see how much further she\u2019s willing to go, and how she handles her back-up plans…<\/p>\n

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Gone Girl is one crazy, psychotic mystery\/thriller\/drama that might make you question certain things in life, like how well you actually know the people you are with, how dangerous certain kinds of people can be and well, whether or not getting married is a sane idea in the first place.<\/p>\n

Despite the original elements in its story, and some seriously fantastic acting from Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl is far from a smooth, fast ride. I\u2019m aware that this was intentional, but the unevenness in pacing created moments, at least for me, where I struggled to stay engaged in the movie. It flows faster and better once we find out what Amy is up to, and how truly disturbed and calculating she is, but until then, I kept wishing some scenes were left in the editing room.<\/p>\n

Because no matter how different and captivating\u00a0a movie is, 149 minutes isn\u2019t generally the amount I\u2019m ready to give to a mystery\/ drama\/ thriller. Well-done epic movies? Sure. A decent piece in a trilogy where you don\u2019t have the chance to get bored because every scene (and interaction) is necessary? Yeah.<\/p>\n

But for me, Gone Girl would be even better at 139 minutes. Hell, at 129 or a little less, I could have jumped at the \u201cmasterpiece\u201d wagon.<\/p>\n

Because\u00a0when a film\u00a0is rated at 8.3 on IMDB (already grabbing a place on the site\u2019s 250 best movies list) and has earned more than 350 million dollars at the box office against its 61 million budget<\/a>, you want to be blown away by every second of the movie. There\u2019s no place for boredom.<\/p>\n

Call me sentimental, traditional or whatever, but I still prefer Se7en. At a little over 2 hours, it is tighter, creepier and has the more satisfactory ending. (Se7en is also on IMDB 250 and rated over 8 (8.7.,to be exact)-hence the comparison).<\/p>\n

And the problem is with establishing your \u201cvillain\u201d to be so brilliant is this haunting question: didn\u2019t she have anything better to do with that Harvard degree and brain of hers than to take revenge? No attempts at world-domination? Trying to save the world or destroy it? And why let herself stoop to such a level if she is so awesome? Isn\u2019t pretending to be someone else to find yourself a partner something losers, or at least very irrational people do?<\/p>\n

Her motives and actions don\u2019t match the IQ and OCD-thinking we\u2019re given, and that\u2019s another con if you think about the movie too much.<\/p>\n

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That said, I love Fincher, and this was a solid movie. But worth the rating and the box office-smashing? Not to me.<\/p>\n

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How did you feel about\u00a0the movie?\u00a0<\/strong>Please let me\u00a0know in\u00a0the comments.<\/p>\n

Fun Gone Girl Trivia<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n