By SARA GOODIE – News Editor
Director David Fincher released the mystery movie Gone Girl to theaters on Oct. 3. The film was based on the bestselling book by Gillian Flynn and is just as overrated.
Gone Girl’s story follows Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) and his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike). On the couple’s five-year anniversary, Amy goes missing and Nick becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance. The investigation becomes the film’s focus.
Ultimately, the movie did not satisfy. Things didn’t add up, lies should have been exploited and the ending was entirely unrealistic.
Not only were storylines impractical, but there was a theme that undermined the legitimate severity of crime against women. Characters who abused and cheated on their significant others received hardly any repercussions.
Though the story itself was painful, technical aspects of the film were spectacular. Acting from Affleck and Pike, along with performances by Neil Patrick Harris, Carrie Coon, Kim Dickens and Tyler Perry, were phenomenal. Dialogue was well-executed and interspersed with tasteful humor, and the videography was excellent.
While this movie wasn’t meant as political commentary or a statement on society, this normalization is the opposite of what should be popular. In a culture where social justice is already in jeopardy, Gone Girl should never have been here in the first place.
