Gone Girl (2014)

"You don't know what you've got 'til it's..."

Directed by David Fincher
Produced by Leslie Dixon, Bruna Papandrea, Reese Witherspoon, Ceán Chaffin
Screenplay by Gillian Flynn
Based on "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn
Starring: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon
Music by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Cinematography: Jeff Cronenweth
Edited by Kirk Baxter
Production company: Regency Enterprises, Pacific Standard
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date: 1 October 2014 (Trinidad and Tobago)
Running time: 149 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $61 million
Box office: $368.1 million

"Gone Girl" is a mystery thriller drama film directed by David Fincher and adapted by Gillian Flynn from her 2012 novel of the same name. The story is about Nick Dunne, whose wife Amy has gone missing. People think that exactly the husband is guilty of her disappearance but is that the truth?

Cast

• Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne
• Rosamund Pike as Amy Elliott-Dunne
• Neil Patrick Harris as Desi Collings
• Tyler Perry as Tanner Bolt
• Carrie Coon as Margo "Go" Dunne
• Kim Dickens as Detective Rhonda Boney
• Patrick Fugit as Officer James Gilpin
• Casey Wilson as Noelle Hawthorne
• Missi Pyle as Ellen Abbott
• Sela Ward as Sharon Schieber
• Emily Ratajkowski as Andie Fitzgerald
• Kathleen Rose Perkins as Shawna Kelly
• Lisa Banes as Marybeth Elliott
• David Clennon as Rand Elliott
• Scoot McNairy as Tommy O'Hara
• Boyd Holbrook and Lola Kirke as Jeff and Greta
• Cyd Strittmatter as Maureen Dunne
• Leonard Kelly-Young as Bill Dunne

I was looking forward to the film as I'm keen on works of David Fincher. He's famous for multilevel stories that have many secret passages. They touch on people who are tired with their daily routine and try to find ways to change it. Moreover, Fincher show a confrontation between a personality and cooperative society. As was, for example, "Fight Club" (1999), so is "Gone Girl".

The acting of Ben Affleck is notable: he absolutely coped with the role of a man who is accused of disappearance of his wife. The part of Rosamund Pike perfectly amazed me! Despite Amy's mental illness, she planned a blameless crime that must be reputable, strange as it may appear.

Advantages

• Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne
• Rosamund Pike as Amy Elliott-Dunne
• Neil Patrick Harris as Desi Collings
• Unexpected twists

Disadvantages

• A little slow moving

"Strangenesses"

• When love is over, a partnership starts

Clue Moments

• Proceedings
• The disappearance
• Killing

In the beginning, I was on the wife's side: "What a terrible man is her husband! Firstly, he treated her as an object and then killed her!" But an hour later my thoughts were changed: "Hey, Amy is completely insane!" All in all, I came to a conclusion that both Nick and Amy cost each other. A good Jack makes a good Gill.

But much interest is behind in relationships of the family and publicity. Mass media will never know what exactly happened therefore they will always believe in the lie thought up by Nick and Amy. As Amy said they both were accomplices. This way, Nick and Amy will always keep secrets of each other and pretend to be a happy family.

Soundtracks

1. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - A Reflection 
2. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Appearances
3. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - At Risk
4. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Background Noise
5. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Clue One
6. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Clue Two
7. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Consummation
8. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Empty Places (Reprise)
9. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Empty Places
10. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Just Like You
11. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Like Home
12. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Perpetual
13. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Procedural 
14. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Secrets 
15. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Something Disposable
16. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Still Gone 
17. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Strange Activities
18. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Sugar Storm (Reprise)
19. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Sugar Storm
20. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Technically, Missing
21. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - The Way He Looks At Me
22. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - What Have We Done To Each Other? 
23. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - What Will We Do? 
24. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - With Suspicion

Quotations

* * *

Amy Dunne: What's the laptop for?
Nick Dunne: Laptopping!

* * *

Nick Dunne: When I think of my wife, I always think of the back of her head. I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brain, trying to get answers. The primal questions of a marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do?

* * *

Officer Jim Gilpin: You ever hear the expression the simplest answer is often the correct one?
Detective Rhonda Boney: Actually, I have never found that to be true.

* * *

Margo Dunne: Everyone knows that 'complicated' is a code word for b*tch.

* * *

Amy Dunne: When two people love each other and they can't make that work, that's the real tragedy.

* * *

Nick Dunne: Go, you're my voice of reason. I need you with me on this.
Margo Dunne: Of course I'm with you. I was with you before we were even born.

* * *

Amy Dunne: Nick Dunne took my pride and my dignity and my hope and my money. He took and took from me until I no longer existed. That's murder.

* * *

Amy Dunne: You think you'd be happy with a nice Midwestern girl? No way, baby! I'm it.

* * *

Sharon Schieber: Nick Dunne. You're probably the most hated man in America right now. Did you kill your wife, Nick?

* * *

Nick Dunne: All I'm trying to do is being nice to the people who are volunteering to help find Amy.

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You may see the trailer here.

Plot: 9/10

Entertainment: 8/10

Acting: 8/10

Originality: 8/10

Music and Sound: 7/10

8/10