Gone Girl

In June 2022, I watched Gone Girl for the first time on the television set. The mystery film was released in 2014. It was based on the novel with the same title published in 2012 and written by Gillian Flynn. David Fincher directed it. Ben Affleck stars it and costars with Rosamund Pike.

The story follows Nick to be at the mercy of his wife, Amy, who is missing.

Nick marries Amy and starts to lead a happy life with her, though he lost his job and becomes negligent a little, moreover, he has affairs with a young woman. The ordinary middle-aged man is kind of a chauvinist but is not vicious, nevertheless, he is charged with killing his wife a few days after her missing and is accused relentlessly by a television program whose host is a popular female news caster who sees herself as a friend of women because Amy is beautiful and famous. Ben Affleck gave a good performance as Nick.

Then, as the story goes on, the mystery of her missing is gradually revealed. The suspense movie entertained me.

Some women might think of Nick as bad, however, as a man I felt that most men are like him and that women are horrible, though I do not think that every woman is. I also thought that I must give careful consideration to a woman when I become friend of her. In addition, I hoped that I can ascertain whether the woman is a psychopath, though I could not ascertain whether once I fall for her, for I also believe that love is blind. I, basically, never would dream that she might be.

Amy was charming and amusing when she swears at Nick's lover and calls her as the girl with the giant cum-on-me tits. That is the same as men who envy other men with bigger pricks than theirs. Except for the scene, she was secretly terrible and never funny. She looked angelic in a good mood but she stopped pretending to be like an angel when her husband started to change his attitude toward her and he became no longer a good provider, which really frightened me. Rosamund Pike gave a mysterious act as Amy. I was amazed in the final phase at the dreadful scenes unique to David Fincher films.

I saw Pike for the first time when I watched I Care a Lot released in 2021. The awfully vicious woman performed by her made me feel ill, though I could have kind of enjoy watching the character if I did the 2014 flick before.

Although the actors' playing was good, yet I felt that the director's job was more brilliant. The superb movie has tensions all the time.