Saturday, October 18, 2014

Gone girl twists in the tail

The film opens with a scene on their fifth wedding anniversary, where Nick(Ben Affleck) laments that he can not know what his wife Amy(Rosamund Pike) is thinking. It quickly becomes clear that this marriage is all but over, except when he returns home from a fairly honest bar chat with his twin sister, we realise that Amy has gone missing. So the plot moves quickly to find out what has happened and why? Was she kidnapped? Did Nick kill has wife? Did she stage her own murder in revenge for him cheating on her? No one is quite what they seem in this tantalising adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s bestselling marital mystery. The pace quickens and each argument is conveyed very convincingly, until we see a version of the truth that is very confronting... There are questions about who could be a sociopath and at times, it seems both could be.

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