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Gone Girl Review

Gone Girl is a movie directed by David Fincher which was adapted from the book written by Gillian Flynn. This movie unfolds a story about a marriage between Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) and Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike). 

I thought this movie was thrilling and intense all the way through. The story was sick in an exciting way and was really well done.

I had not read the book before seeing the movie so I had no idea what to expect. This movie flowed together beautifully and transformed well on the screen.

The character choice was well done. Ben Affleck played Nick Dunne well, portraying his self-absorbed husband who is not satisfied with his wife.

Rosamund Pike was a great choice for Amy Dunne. Amy is a wife who turns crazy after finding out about her cheating husband and wants him to get what he deserves.

Her portrayal of Amy and how she is able to show Amy's happy side, her crazy side, her empty, cruel side, and her mischievous side. You could see all those parts of her in scenes.

The way the movie was taken on and shot was very well done. The movie starts with a clip of present day of Amy's disappearance and the interrogation following this missing persons case.

The movie goes through the events of trying to figure out Amy’s disappearance while flashing back to her diary and the voiceover and showing you the scene she is writing about.

Going through the movie with each diary entry it makes you think that Nick did indeed kill his wife as their “moments” are revealed in her diary. You will understand why I put moments in quotations later.

Nick finds out about his wife being 6 weeks pregnant and finds his anniversary present from Amy in his sister’s shed. She leaves the items he carelessly “bought” causing money troubles in her diary entry. The center gift is Punching Judy dolls that represent him, Amy and the “baby”.

The scene switches to Amy alive, telling out her plan to send her husband to jail. This by far was one of my favorite parts. The way they had Nick figure out the truth about Amy and then they flip it right to her.

This was a big shock to me because through all that I was sure that Nick had done it and you are slapped in the face to realize that Amy faked it all and how she wanted her husband in jail, and dead.

The way they show her plan as the voiceover goes was so smooth. It walked you through and explained exactly what she did and why. 

It also reveals the diary was written by her and the beginning of how they met and the early years are true. She then makes up the beatings and other things. The newer scenes of her diary are fake and you really have no idea what went on in their house the past couple of years.

That was a shocking scene all the way through and caught me off guard. I was mesmerized of how Rosamund Pike did all this and you could see her cold face while she wrote the diary and truly didn't care about sending her husband to jail.

While Amy’s hideaway life is going on it flips back and forth from her to Nick, the attorney and Margo, Nick’s sister putting the pieces together about Amy. I loved how they put this together and the great transitions between them.

Amy is forced to reconnect with her old high school, rich boyfriend, Desi (Neil Patrick Harris). Neil Patrick Harris, was great as the insecure guy with this incredible house they created for him.

Amy uses him to be able to come home to Nick. This brutal scene of her killing Desi was so real and creepy you see a whole other side of Amy you had never really scene.

The ending after Amy came home was a little strange. How she decided to come home and join her husband was a little weird for her. I know others might agree the ending was a little off.

The way Amy and Nick rub off when they first are back together on each other and almost meld at the end is crazy. Their reactions and acting really sold the different feelings about Amy being back home with Nick.

Overall this movie was so good and well put together. I was amazed with the cast and the story plot and the twists all around. I would recommend people to go see this if you like thrillers.