Gone Girl
He took and took from me until i no longer existed. That's murderI'm gonna be honest, I had no idea who I was rooting for because on one side Nick was being incriminated for something he never did and was being hated by everyone, almost getting killed because of it. But then Amy Dunne is Amy Dunne; she did so much for me to ever hate her. Fincher is a genius, and I might even prefer this to Fight Club on a rewatch. Both 5-star movies, but this was just amazing and so well orchestrated. He delivered one of the best scripts of the decade, and maybe of all time. It touches on so many things, like the exceptionally captivating, perplexing disappearance of Amy, to the underlying theme about how the press and media treat this type of news, with a plot twist that slowly develops. I think today we all know the plot twist that completely changes our vision of this movie, but I'm not going to mention it in case you're actually reading this and somehow you don't know one of the best plot twists in cinema. Go watch it now!
The screenplay of this movie is impressively able to develop each and every narrative and each and every character in the most perfect way possible. I just simply don't know how to describe it. With the use of time stamps or whatever that was, the viewer follows in a detailed and perfect manner the events that build up to the tragic day through different perspectives, mainly Amy's and Nick's, and that was so interesting. Something this movie achieved is how the press influences what we think about the characters and shows how misunderstandings can lead to awful things when you just read a headline and don't want to understand the full context, or you just believe it because it's on national TV. It shows how gullible some people are and how easy it is to trick someone and completely ruin someones life and how easy it is to like Rosamund Pike even when she is a psycopath.
And we also have the incredible performance of Rosamund Pike. She had such a complex, layered role and did it perfectly. Amy can be menacing and scary. I mean, she's a fucking psychopath, that's for sure, but she also is loving and kind. You just can't piss her off, or else she will do this. The puzzle surrounding her disappearance is mostly based on a perspective enigma, as the viewer is told the same story through different lenses throughout the first half of the film, ingeniously divided and shown to us in such a cool way. It's a wild ride, and some of the last minutes were actually so intense because I was rooting for Amy to not get caught, and I really thought she would. I was really fucking scared for her, and the incredible soundtrack made by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross got me so fucking nervous for her. This movie was very intense, especially in the last 20-30 minutes. I had to lock in, and the genius performances from everyone also really helped.
This movie is a wild ride, a mystery, and just such a fucking entertaining portrait of a marriage between two people who really don’t know each other. At first glance, they are completely opposites and would never work out. The real mystery of this movie is just who they really are under the personalities they created just for looks and to please people. Then, we, or at least me, realized just how perfect these two mean and complex people are to each other. They are soulmates, and I think Nick kind of realized it in the end that he would never like another woman like he liked Amy and how perfect they are. To be honest, the sister was kinda making me mad in the end. They fit well together in a fucked-up way. She is WAY too close to her brother. The actors did a good job playing that; it almost made me think there was some incest shit going on.
Overall, I fucking loved this movie. So well-built. Fincher is a genius man. His direction and the complexity of the script, combined with one of the best acting performances of a sociopath that Rosamund Pike did. She knew the layers of her character and acted them perfectly. All this combined created an amazing rom-com.