{"id":696,"date":"2014-10-07T23:36:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/peanutsandpopcorn\/?p=696"},"modified":"2014-10-07T23:36:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:36:40","slug":"gone-girl-leaves-you-speechless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/peanutsandpopcorn\/2014\/10\/gone-girl-leaves-you-speechless.html","title":{"rendered":"Gone Girl Leaves You Speechless"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ben Affleck is looking for his wife in “Gone Girl.” (New Regency Pictures)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cHuh.\u201d That is what I said at the end of Gone Girl<\/em><\/a>. I couldn\u2019t really believe that that was the end of the movie. Like many others who hadn\u2019t read the novel of the same name by Gillian Flynn (who also wrote the screenplay), I was left speechless. Gone Girl<\/em> is a well-made movie, but not really an enjoyable one.<\/p>\n

The basic premise of the story is that Amy Dunne has gone missing and may be murdered. Her husband, Nick, is the main suspect. The mystery slowly covers the five year marriage of the two with flashbacks and the reading of Amy\u2019s diary. The two sources prove not to be the most reliable narrators.<\/p>\n

Amy (Rosamund Pike) and Nick (Ben Affleck) are both writers. Amy\u2019s mother is the author of a string of \u201cAmazing Amy\u201d children\u2019s books, which supposedly tell of the exploits of Amy\u2019s life, but they are more or less an exaggeration of facts. Always the dutiful daughter, Amy goes along with her mother\u2019s wished to promote her books, but she resents her for it as well.<\/p>\n

On the morning of the Dunne\u2019s 5th<\/sup> wedding anniversary, Nick visits his bar that he co-owns with his sister Margo (Carrie Coon) and basically states how terrible his marriage is. When he goes home, he finds the glass coffee table in the living room is smashed and his wife is nowhere to be found. Detective Rhonda Boney (Kim Dickens) and Officer Jim Gilpin (Patrick Fugit) arrive to investigate the scene of the crime who find more questions than they find answers for. As it turns out, both Amy and Nick had their own hidden secrets and one by one, they get exposed to the light. Tyler Perry plays a high profile lawyer who doesn\u2019t seem to care if Nick is guilty or not and Neil Patrick Harris plays an old flame of Amy\u2019s, who appears to not have much significance to the story\u2026at first.<\/p>\n

The film is a great example of how one might try to bury the sins of their past never really works and how one little lie can lead to another and another and you end up with a whole web full of them.<\/p>\n

Gone Girl is a long movie, but definitely one that grabs your attention. The story is pretty unbelievable, but that isn\u2019t the problem with it. The movie is way too graphic, but not just in violence. The characters are fairly vulgar – do real people talk like that in real life? The \u201cromance\u201d scenes show too much as well. It appears that the filmmakers tried to see how far they could go with some scenes and still keep an \u201cR\u201d rating. Note to filmmakers: the audience isn\u2019t stupid. We don\u2019t need to see such graphic images and dialogues to understand the story.<\/p>\n

The biggest problem with this film is that there is nobody to root for. They are all awful people pretending that they aren\u2019t. By the end of the movie, you can\u2019t help but think of better ways to end the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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