Gone Girl
‘Gone Girl’ is an American psychological thriller movie by
the director, David Fincher based on Gillian Flynn’s criminal novel with the
same title. The movie flows with flash backs where we find Amy Dunne reports
missing on their wedding anniversary.
Nick Dunne and Amy are both writers in their profession and
even their first meetup is set in a writers’ party. They spend a beautiful
marriage life until they relocate to Nick’s hometown in North Carthage to take
care of his sick mother. This change causes their marriage life to take a turn.
Amy who was famous for her book series named as ‘Amazing Amy’ loved to make her
living in New York as a writer for personality quizzes. She loved their life in
New York. Her displeasure to stay in Nick’s hometown soon made to resent him
for making her move away from the town.
Amy becomes very aggrieved as Nick loses his job and started
to face financial problems. She has to ask help from her parents to set up the
bar for Nick and his twin sister Margo. Nick too drags himself away from Amy
and starts to fade away his love for her. Meanwhile another dark cloud appears
to their bond when Amy catches Nick with his girlfriend red handed. They
becomes strangers under same roof.
She uses her charisma and intellect to make her husband
murderer for her own death. The movie makes the audience curious with every
dialogue in the scenes. Fincher never explains the viewer what is really behind
Amy’s missing. At certain points, we feels to believe Nick as a murderer but in
the next moment, we feels unsure about it.
In the next part of the movie, it makes the audience
interest in the mission of investigating her missing. Amy’s missing puts Nick
in danger and it makes him to be a hatred person by the society. Even by his
own in laws. Nick’s romantic relationship with one of his young student girl
makes the knot tighter with her untimed revealing it to the media.
Nick’s narration and his answers to the investigator about
their relationship puts him into more trouble as he never knew Amy’s friends
and mostly that she was pregnant this makes us suspicious about their marriage
life because he is a husband who never knew about his own wife properly. The
story raises many rhetorical questions including, is Nick a murderer? Were
their relationship unhappy? Where is Amy? Is she kidnapped or dead?
Again the close and friendly dialogs of Nick with his sister
makes the viewer curious about her character weather he is an innocent or a
cruel murderer of his loving life but the snippets from Amy’s diary, read in
voice over by Amy and accompanied by flashbacks hint a difference. She comments
their relationship as a highly romantic and loving life at the beginning and
then it gradually becomes a weeping journal of an abused wife.
The real surprise in the movie starts next when the camera
focuses on Amy, who is happily driving in a car with a rude smile on her lips.
Her flash back memories brings out how she has spent a whole year drawing a
complex plan to frame Nick for her own murder.
Then her whole plan takes a twist when she was robbed and
when Nick smells her cunning plan to take revenge from her. Eventually, Amy
ends up building up another false kidnapping scene and she even blackmails Nick
by inseminating herself with his sperm forcefully. At the end she shows both
the society and Nick that she is the ‘AMAZING AMY’ and the innocent Amy shown
at the beginning of their relationship is GONE.
Review – Sathya .S.K.Arachchi
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