Executed to Perfection.

Rating: 10/10 (7 May 2020)

It is hard to find fault with anything Fincher does, and Gone Girl is no different.
I have watched this countless times and it still blows my mind - Gone Girl takes the traditional murder mystery genre and turns it on it's head.
The perfect film to watch with your S/O ... (joke)

Darkly satirical and scintillating, Gone Girl forces us to look at the dark parts of ourselves, the validity of our relationships and societies propensity to pigeonhole women.
Affleck and Pike were destined to be Nick & Amy. The alternate narratives weave nicely together, with just enough left unsaid to make you question both accounts. After watching the film you are left somewhat perplexed by how searingly honest it is. The film criticises our fascination with true crime and our naivety to believe the narrative the media spins. The film also touches on hyper realism, and the over arching need for people to present themselves as someone else in order to be liked/accepted (the cool girl speech/ the dancing monkey) - very timely in a social media obsessed culture.