It’s almost humorous how elaborate the plot gets. Lotta Fincher themes getting explored here and done really well. Narcissistic sociopathy. Check. Scathing media takedown. Check. Trouble relationships with money and power. Check. Extreme misogyny. Triple check there. Amanda Dobbins, whom I love on The Ringer, asks if the film is “a misogynistic summary of all the ways that a woman can falsely accuse a man.“ Also, based on a Gillian Flynn novel.
The Amazing Amy shit is a really great way to fuck somebody up. She has no real friends, a total sociopath, the only people in her life are her parents and people she’s manipulating (her husband, the dumb pregnant girl, so forth), but she is pretty capable and plays a great victim. Her husband, Ben Affleck’s character Nick, is really gonna have a shitty life. And in the end, they’re back where they started, in a loveless marriage but now there are no illusions, I guess. Here you are raising a child with a woman that was going to kill herself to frame you. That kid is going to be fucked, one of her playthings.
Loved Tyler Perry. Wasn't a fan Neil Patrick Harris. Structure of the movie is pretty good. One thing I couldn’t really get behind is how the detective and everyone when the gone girl returns after having obviously murdered someone is just like, “meh, it was just a goof.” White people are indeed crazy.
