‘Sadistic, forbidden pleasure’: why Gone Girl is my feelgood movie
What have we done to each other?” From the outset, Gone Girl probably sounds like quite an odd choice for a feelgood movie.
Key points
- There is a strange catharsis (and comfort) in watching a scorned woman get her revenge, one meticulously planned move at a time.
- But I find myself being drawn to this film every year when the days start to shorten.
The film follows Nick (Affleck) and Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike), whose once-picture-perfect marriage has become a humiliatingly predictable tale of resentment and infidelity – and when Amy suddenly disappears in suspicious circumstances, it only gets more disturbing.
“I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brains, trying to get answers to the primal questions of any marriage: What are you thinking?
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