Gone - 2012

A good film, in a way. I mean, if you want to think about it, at the end it doesn’t make a lot of sense. Basically the bad guy hid Molly only to induce her sister Jill (Amanda Seyfried) to go looking for him, thus having her go to him voluntarily. One could say: how could he know she would have found him? Or maybe he didn’t are? Anyway, the whole plot is simple: time ago Jill was abducted and put in a hole in the woods, but she managed to escape. The police looked for a week, found no hole, no kidnapper, and since she had no evidence of physical abuse they thought she had invented it, which is a bit ridiculous in a way, I mean, ‘we can’t find him? Not possible! She must have made it up!’ come on, seriously?  but it is true that there are crazy ones everywhere so everything is possible, even a crazy girl making up an abduction. Anyway, Molly goes missing (which is to say that she misses an exam) and Jill rushes to the police “he came back! He took my sister, he’ll kill her tonight if we don’t find her”; the police think she’s delusional, and sends her home. Jill starts her search for Molly. To a neighbor she says “they stole my bike tonight. Did you see anything?” A van! To the firm of the vans she says “someone stole a car, next to your van, what did you see?” and when she took out her gun she finally had her true answer: the firm guy rent a van to some guy. In the van there was a receipt (how lucky, she looked in one van and it was the right one? It seemed to me they had more than one, or did I imagine it?) so she goes to that store and they tell her who bought that stuff. By now the police are looking for her because she has a gun and since she has been in a mental hospital she cannot keep one. She finally finds his home, empty, but with the same matches they have in the place she works as a waitress… Okay, it’s not too clear how she can be so sure of everything, as I told you, at the end you think back and of course it seems like a load of nonsense, and yet while you look at it first time it’s not bad, no. Anyway, at this point she goes to her waitress colleague to ask about the man; the woman is skeptical about her sanity but helps her anyway, lending Jill her car and giving her the guy’s phone number, so Jill calls him and he leads her to his place in the woods. She drives alone, in the night, taking her gun with her. She finds pictures of other girls abducted, then the hole, but at this point we already know it’s a trap because Molly has freed herself and told the police everything, right after hugging her boyfriend Billy (Sebastian Stan). She was under her own house. Because of this it was not a surprise when the guy caught Jill and sent her down the hole. He went down too, but she fought, got hold of her gun and shot him, got out of the hole then burned him. It was nice that they didn’t show him clearly; his face was not important. I saw the face clearly only when he was out and talked to him still down there. At that point it was inevitable. 

She hurried back home after throwing her gun in the woods, simply out of the car window. 

Back home she hugged her sister, and I liked that hug, it was a good hug, that made me feel the love between these two sisters, the relief in finding each other alive and well. Jill secretly told Molly that she killed the guy, so they need fear him no more, then told the police: a gun? never had a gun. where was I? out looking for my sister. The guy I was following? never existed, I made it all up.

Last scene, the police receive the pictures of the other girls abducted and a map with an X where they can find the remains. The end.

Conclusion, enjoyable the first time. Nothing special or unforgettable, but it might even be worth a second watch :-)