Gone Girl

My review: Gone Girl

No one even in their wildest of dreams can come out with such a chilling story of a couple whose marriage is under strain. To come out with a story as brutally chilling as "Gone Girl", you must be one of those who is either twistedly intelligent or intelligently twisted. Wonder how could Gillian Flynn can come out with such a decadent tale of love, hate, revenge and misery with such lyrical undercurrent. David Fincher's screen adaptation of Flynn novel is a spine chilling thriller that entertains married couples more than anyone else, albeit with all its guilty pleasure. 

The movie warrants an inquisitive viewing to piece together the bits into a whole to make sense of  it all. Along the way loads of emotional investment happens unwittingly that may leave you drained in the end   salubriously all the same with the glee of having watched a wonderfully crafted movie. The screenplay never looses its steam, keeps you at the seat's edge all through with its numerous twists and turns. It reaffirms the fact that the twists and turns of a crooked mind is more horrific and adrenaline pumping than the fast and furious metallic actioners.   

Besides Flynn's terrific screenplay and Fincher's brilliant direction, what makes "Gone Girl" what it is is the acting from its lead, Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. Everyone is at awe with the power-packed performance from Pike as a borderline cum dissocial Amy Dunne who goes to the extreme extent possible for revenge. Indeed she has given her career best in the role that has shades that are oblivious to a normal psyche which she has identified and portrayed magnificently.

 But in my opinion it is Ben Affleck's portrayal of awkward Nick Dunne that takes the cake. Without his terrifically understated performance, the impact that Pike was able to make would not have happened. Towards the latter half, when his hidden layers keep unraveling one by one, the gradual transformation his character undergoes that reaches the crescendo in the interview scene and later when he gets reunited with Amy are just tremendous. 

On the whole, "Gone Girl" is a terrific thriller, a sociopathic commentary on the disintegration of the institution of  marriage in the modern times of an anomic society. 

Bottomline:  Must watch and goosebumps guaranteed.  

4/5