Gone Girl

Gone Girl (2014, David Fincher) Review

Fincher's film is well structured and established around the voice-over narrative of the female protagonist and her inner thoughts and memories. The film is an adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel which is devoted to the literary text. The narrative of the film is enriched of flash backs of the couple's lifestyle and relationship. The audience mostly self-identifies with the female protagonist's subjective world. The shift of the female subjectivity to the male protagonist happens to be completed close to the final sequences of the film when Amy finally murders and kills her ex-boyfriend in a sex scene. The ending of the film is ambiguous. Although the couple accepts to live together, the potentialities of betraying, murdering, and cheating are still there. We do not know if Nick knows about his wife, but the shadow of a doubt raises the question that who will be controlling the narrative and how. Nick or Amy? Review by Morad Sadeghi