"Gone Girl" is a suspense-type film directed by the famous director David Fincher in 2014. The main role of the film is performed by male star Ben Affleck and actress Rosamund Pike. The film is based on its excellent narrative and the lens. It won the Best Film Award at the 86th American National Critics Association Award and was nominated for the best actress in the Oscars. The film tells the story of a bizarre marriage between men and women. The male and female protagonists Nick and Amy have created a pair of golden boys and girls in the eyes of others. However, on the fifth anniversary of their marriage, Amy disappeared, and the perfect girl’s diary reveals that people can be pushed to the dangerous edge. Under the pressure of the police, the media, and the daughter-in-law who loved her daughter, Nick, who has always been regarded as the best man in the town, has fabricated a series of lies and misconduct. Although Nick is really painful, it is strange that he is vague and evasive. He does not know whether he is a real or not. When the police intervene, the town is in danger. Every couple begins to re-examine their own.
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The film "Gone GIrl” was adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name in the United States in 2012. The film revived with its suspense, immersing the audience and enjoying the thrill of brainstorming. Director David Fincher portrayed this black-filled film with a sharp lens, and the actor's wonderful presentation made the film quite tense. In the movie, director David Finch continues the pursuit of lies and truths in his films. The film subtly unfolds the story through lies and truth propositions, including directors and husband. The relationship between the wife and husband, the husband and the family, the husband and the media, the husband and the police, are the main clues. Through the transformation of the game plot and narrative perspective between Amy and her husband Nick, the truth is divided into pieces and then recombined. At the same time, although the film uses the most common two-person marriage as the basis of the film material, the director David Fincher dismisses the narrative style and exquisite plots, which are always full of black satire, and the suspense in this marriage. Violence and fear are displayed in front of the audience, stripping off the last bit of the two people's marriage.
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The multi-dimensional and rich transformation of the whole narrative structure and method makes the rhythm of the whole story full of excitement and suspense. The director cleverly demonstrates the romantic time that both of them have experienced through the method of interlude in this deceitful marriage. The contrast makes the characters of the two protagonists more stereoscopic and vivid. At the same time, the use of the loopback layered narrative structure that David Finch is good at makes the whole story more difficult to distinguish between true and false. It is full of mystery, which makes the audience suddenly realize after the end. Bringing re-examination and reflection on the relationship between the two sexes. In terms of artistic expression, the film inherited the style of David Finch’s many films, and also re-expanded and extended its black aesthetics to a certain degree. The new black aesthetics, in the choice of story scenes, David Finch makes full use of the superiority of the interior, so that the shadows and unnatural rays in the house are fully mapped on the faces of the characters, which not only brings out the horror of the overall atmosphere.
Suspense makes this fear follow the change of light to reflect the inner and outer emotions of the story. It can be said that the director is more comfortable in the scheduling of light and frame. At the same time, the director has integrated the editing, picture, soundtrack and art design of the whole film with his own aesthetic aesthetics. While showing the black aesthetics, he has deepened the expression and portrayal of the subject. Throughout the film, there is no doubt that David Fincher once again showed his ability to control the play. The overall adaptation of the film was quite successful. The director adopted a combination of multiple narrative methods and rich lens language. While expressing the artistic aesthetic of his own film, he showed the film a deep discussion of the relationship between marriage and love. After the story full of irony and creativity, it gives people new enlightenment and reflection. It can be said that this film is another of the most classic suspenseful works in David Fincher's many works.
My Score is 9/10
Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/210577-gone-girl?language=en-US
Critic: AAA