Sunday, 2 November 2014

Gone Girl: Highly anticipated, highly appreciated (spoilers)

Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) finds himself exposed to his community and to the journalists while everyone is trying to understand where is Amazing Amy.
Directed by David Fincher and starring Ben Affleck and Rosemund Pike, Gone Girl is a film that every David Finchers fan wanted to watch. The story is about conflict, how the media can persuade our view of the news and it's about relationships and psychotic/disturbing minds. It's a film that doesn't get boring or numb, it makes you interested and intrigued about the story, making you want to know more and more about what will happen to the characters and their future.

I really wanted to watch Gone Girl. When I first saw the trailer, I had the feeling that it had a very intriguing story line. It has an amazing soundtrack that follows the films dark environment and it flows perfectly throughout the film.

One of the best things about this David Fincher film is that it doesn't get too predictable. The marketing team did an excellent job with the trailer, because it influences the audience into thinking something that it's not quite true. If you're a film genius and you have seen a lot of films, then maybe you'll able to understand the full story just by the trailer, but it's still just as exciting because they don't break the thin line between making it good or making it... crap.

Ben Affleck and Rosemund Pike are wonderful. Their acting is really good and realistic, which makes it even more mysterious and builds up a certain obscure and dangerous environment to every scene. In fact, the tones of the film were perfect for the story they wanted to tell and David Fincher did it perfectly. Well done, sir.

This is a story that explains to you the media's role in certain cases. They build up several accusations that may not even be true, just because it's better for them to support a certain person. In this case, they victimize the woman and blame the man, almost as if women are the only ones who suffer this kind of abuse. But there you go, for the media it's much more interesting to support the one that the public thinks is the victim. That's the brilliant part of the film. They take this story and make it as realistic as possible, considering what they're trying to tell us.

All the journalists grab Nick Dunne's life (Ben Affleck) and turn it into a gigantic soap opera, for everyone to assist and enjoy. Let's sit back and enjoy this episode of "Life Of Nick Dunne" everyone, because he is the bad guy in this film.



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