Gone Girl (2014) - Sick!

★★★☆☆

‘Gone Girl’ works like a reminder that evil doesn’t necessarily adopt an obnoxious approach upon you. Instead it could be brutally resourceful and romantic. So inevitably it’d make you feel sick to some extent. I’m not sure if I like this film, but I’m sure I’m not going to watch it ever again.

Nick (Ben Affleck) finds his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) missing on their fifth wedding anniversary. The police look into it, and later they dig up evidence against Nick, including his wife’s diary suggesting that she was becoming very afraid of her husband who might kill her eventually. Nick appears decent at first but then we learn that he’s a dishonest and unfaithful person dependent on his wife. He does seem to have a motive. Amy looks innocent but her stares are kind of creepy. Indeed she’s ‘complicated’, a code word for bitch as stressed. So what’s gonna happen next is probably not much of a surprise to you if you’re a fan of crime dramas. To me, it’s more like a horror film than anything else nonetheless.

‘Gone Girl’ is full of David Fincher’s signature: bleak images, shady characters, ingenious editing and directing, spooky underscore, and plot twists. The difference is, we don’t have to wait till the end to find out who masterminds the crime this time. If you were aware and smart enough, you would’ve figured right in the opening. Even so, the script still intrigues throughout. It’s just that the ending’s not quite like I expected after all.

The film’s based on Gillian Flynn’s same titled novel, who I guess must be quite sick enough to be able to come up with such a sick story. Director David Fincher is sure sick enough to be able to make it a motion picture to sicken us in a sense! Well, truth is, we’re all kind of sick. Inside we’re part evil part divine. And when the evil part manages to take up most of our mind, you know it's no longer up to us!