Despite being a young ‘un living in modern Melbourne, I often find myself lagging with trends and this one in particular is the positivity surrounding David Fincher’s Gone Girl, adapted from Gillian Flynn’s novel. Having seen it last night with a fresh mind and a happy belly, I 
was absolutely absorbed into Nick Dunne’s plight, battling the media frenzy accusing him of murdering his missing wife. The plot’s Psycho-esque turnaround halfway through the film, during which Rosamund Pike’s Amy reveals her whereabouts and her psychopathic methods of spicing up her marriage, leaves the audience flabbergasted by the audacity of her character’s pure evilness. For once, paying customers are batting for the happiness of an Affleck character, no longer criticising him for performance (cough Daredevil and Batman?). Although yes, one would roll their eyes at Nick’s naivete smiling for the cameras, taking selfies with random female strangers and continuing her adulterous relationship with a student; on second thought, these moments of stupidity are somewhat realistic for the modern married man. Despite leaving the theatre very content with what I had just taken in, I was left wanting more with the cliffhanger ending, and though I haven’t read the novel myself (and trust me, I’ve downloaded the audiobook right after seeing the film), I was hoping for more than a one-sided manipulation game between wife and husband. I wanted to see Nick and Amy go into a sociopathic showdown destroying each other’s credibility. I cannot wait to begin the audiobook experience, not just to compare and contrast the adaptation differences between film and novel, but to clarify uncertainties that would’ve been left out deliberately such as Amy’s baby’s paternity–the only humane reason why Nick Dunne wasn’t going to kill his wife. Despite my thirst for content, I was satisfied with the ending, as it was the only way to preserve the characters’ motivations. A true sacrificing hero, good man Nick Dunne would endure living with his psychotic wife to bear a child which, would inevitably be, the spawn of the She-devil.
FIVE STARS.