Psychological thriller

Rating: 8/10 (5 November 2014)

Not having read the Book I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. You get a very intelligent woman raised by ambitious parents who manipulated and novelized her life to create a great series of books. Who settles for the average Joe, an aspiring writer. After spending all her trust fund to prop themselves up on a safe low scale business things go awry. Both fall out from there initial phase get bored with their routine life, Nick the Husband searches for new excitement in the form of younger woman and spends on gadget toys. Amy the the ever so proper and emotionally detached woman that she is finds herself unable to make new acquaintances in her new neighborhood to connect at her level. She feels herself lost, and further aggravates the feeling when she discovers that Nick is cheating on her, and does not love him. After having spend most her money on her marriage her psycho selfs snaps into action on a revenge plan that is utterly brilliant but horrific.
From there the flick show her level of planning and lack of empathy when executing her plan. Along the way a few hiccups changes her plan and what unfolds is quite interesting.
Some woman may find this flick misogynistic and misanthropic or even misandry, but truly the theme is psychopathy, like the director David Fincher's many other movies.
Would this flick get an award, I doubt it, the director played with a misunderstood theme, notwithstanding choose to embed certain micro elements into the scene which is very politically sensitive.
If you consider acting Rosamund Pike was excellent and pulled the movie along to its enjoyable levels. Can't say the same with Ben Affleck (actor) performance.