domenica 13 settembre 2015

Gone girl - 2014

I liked it a lot for a while, then it became so predictable and obvious and maybe just a little annoying too. The beginning was very interesting, with this woman Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) diasppeared and her husband Nick (Ben Affleck) at the center of everything; I mean, working with the police, the media, the people to try to find her, and yet he looked like he couldn't care less! First scene had been him talking to his sister telling her how badly things were going between him and Amy lately, and yet he tells nothing of it to the police and he's not surprised whey they find the first clue of the treasure-hunt she used to do every year for him. I was, why wasn't he? Things were so bad, she was so cold and distant, and yet she prepares sexy messages for their treasure-hunt, its price his anniversary gift??
It doesn't make a lot of sense, just like his attitude: I can understand he doesn't love her anymore, but he looks like he doesn't give a damn that she might have been killed. No emotions at all.
Then we hear her narrating voice tell their story of how they fell in love, got married, going on and on telling how he changed and became violent, so that she feared for her own life. She tells us of how she tried to save the marriage having a child, but he strongly opposed the idea. We then see Nick with his sister, talking of how he wanted a child, all the opposite of her version. From that moment everything became boring, when it wasn't even annoying. I knew only one of them was telling the truth, so: if she's sincere, then he's killed her and that's that, incredibly boring final with the husband suspected from the start turning up to be the murderer, really Non exciting. If HE is telling the truth, it means she's writing those things in her diary to use it against him, then why it hasn't turned up? But I didn't have to wait long and there it is! At that point, all clear: she used his credit card and disappeared to frame him. It was so obvious that they didn't even try to deny it, and soon showed Amy going away with lots of cash, changing her look and identity, until a girl and a guy discovered she had money and robbed her. At that point she could only do one thing: she called Desi (Neil Patrick Harris) the rich man in love with her since the time when they attended the same university. He took her to one of his houses, full of cameras, believing her story of how she had been mistreated and how scared she was and he was happy to have her there and said "this time I won't let you go and leave me" and for a moment I had a little hope and I thought: what if now things turn around and he keeps her prisoner? But no, she simply did it all over again, preparing it all, her usual farse, hurting herself to say he raped her; I knew she wanted to go back to Nick after hearing him saying he loevd her on tv. Not only that, Amy cut Deni's throat, killing him. Obviously she wanted a scapegoat, to justify all that time she had been gone without a word: he had kept her prisoner.
She went back home and demanded to live together an look happy to the cameras, and when she tells him she's pregnant he decides to stay with her! :-/ that's how it ends. Yep.
What nobody explained to me is why he was so hostile at the beginning, why he hated her, before all that happened. He had been having an affair for at least 15 months, it all seemed against him, and it was like he didn't care or he didn't even consider it. The Fbi never doubted her version, they didn't even look if during all that time Desi had even been to that house, or if the day she said he abducted her he was anywhere near her, nothing. They don't ask how she managed to get hold of the weapon that she used to cut his throat open, they don't question if it is normal for a terrified desperate young woman who is being raped to aim for the throat, instead of the easier, nearer stomach. They don't even bother, they're happy to say -of really, that's how it went? good, case closed, thanks -
Maybe it's because all the media were on her side, because it made a good story? So what, the moral of this film is that all that matters is what people think and what the media like? Well, I don't like it.

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