Kafka&Freud reloaded

Rating: 10/10 (16 December 2014)

Little did I know about America's taste for surrealism in the year of grace 2014 yet I have to concede that this movie gave me an unique experience, not knowing the end half an hour before ending and being reminded that introspection is still an art. The Gone Girl is a beautiful sweet and sour satire to the modern family in which the institution of marriage is observed and analyzed from a cold and ironic angle. The whole movie is a trial in which each character is analyzed and over-analyzed only to show the absurdity of doing this thing in the first place. No wonder that Kafka novel is called "The trial". The book/movie shows the beautiful and sacred mission of marriage which has been transformed by our natural imperfection (craziness included)in a show for a given audience (mass media, family, neighbours, etc.), a peer pressure factor that gives out sentences in the name of everything but reality. The movie/book is about acceptance. The domestic blame that the author beautifully is moving around for us to accept is only the bait that will take us nowhere. The author is kind of saying us, "grab a mirror"... and use it. Even the "escape" of the female character in the lake house retreat is just a metaphor for the fact that there is no escape from craziness but another Kafkaesque/Freudian mined land.