Film No.70 (2014) September 30th. 6:30 PM VMAX Innaloo.
Gone Girl
I'm told Gone Girl, the film, slides nicely into the narrative groove of Gillian Flynn's book of the same name. Ms. Flynn wrote the screenplay so I dare say she paid particular attention to including details essential to the original story. Both Flynn and proven director David Fincher have done a great job; Gone Girl is a riveting, if not slightly long, melodramatic thriller.
So without spoiling a single minute of your Gone Girl experience the story unfolds like this: Nick Dunne (Ben Afflick) lives a knock about life in the suburbs of North Carthage, Missouri, running a bar with his sister Margo (Carrie Coon). He's blissfully married (or so it would seem) to Amy (Rosamund Pike). In an early scene he takes a call from his neighbour; the cat is out and the front door is ajar. All is not what it would seem on the domestic front; cut to a close up of a pen on the page of a diary. Amy scribbles down the story of her first meeting with Nick; the beginnings of her ambition to live a perfect life.
Afflick and Pike play the fractured couple perfectly; their ability to manipulate our feelings towards them from one fluctuating scene to another succeeds splendidly. Coon along with Tyler Perry as "flagshot" lawyer Tanner Bolt deliver sharp performances. Typically Fincher layers his film with a soundtrack which weaves just the right amount of uneasiness into its demeanor.
I've not read any of Flynn's novels so I'm no expert but on reflection I can't help but wonder if she made it a stipulation that she, and she alone had narrative control over this big studio film, so her female characters maintained their intellectual stamina. The female characters in Gone Girl have more dimension and are a step ahead of their more predictable male counterparts at all times. Detective Boney (Kim Dickens) is the measuring stick on this matter; with the less said about her cliched offsider Officer Gilpin (Patrick Fugil) the better. 8GUMS.
I've not read any of Flynn's novels so I'm no expert but on reflection I can't help but wonder if she made it a stipulation that she, and she alone had narrative control over this big studio film, so her female characters maintained their intellectual stamina. The female characters in Gone Girl have more dimension and are a step ahead of their more predictable male counterparts at all times. Detective Boney (Kim Dickens) is the measuring stick on this matter; with the less said about her cliched offsider Officer Gilpin (Patrick Fugil) the better. 8GUMS.
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