I can't stop thinking about Gone Girl

Rating: 10/10 (4 July 2016)

I can't stop thinking about Gone Girl. Not because of any maddening, unresolved plot twist; it's just emotionally draining. If I had written this review immediately after walking out of the screening, the only thing I'd be able to say is that we've been given another brilliant- yet-imperfect David Fincher movie that fits neatly alongside the director's other recent works, The Social Network and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
But like The Social Network, the interwoven story lines here all serve as a satire of modern life. Fincher's entire body of work, which also includes Fight Club and Se7en, is punctuated with moments of physical and emotional violence used to contrast cultural mores. Gone Girl succeeds as a critique of the marketplace of ideas — a rationale that, in free and public discourse, the truth will always emerge from competing ideas.