Gone Girl is a print to screen story about marriage in a modern day society. On the surface, Nick and Amy are a happy, all-American couple of a higher class, but the truth lies deeper than the surface. An article on the movie published by The New York Times spoke to the same emotions that I felt about the story. The article goes on to say that “’Gone Girl’ plays like a queasily, at times gleefully, funny horror movie about a modern marriage, one that has disintegrated partly because of spiraling downward mobility and lost privilege”. (Dargis) The movie calls in the question the vows that we all hope to say one day. To love, honor, and cherish the one whom we want to spend the rest of our lives with. The person we choose to marry is to be trusted
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Nick is a quiet type of person that seems like they are either complex or knows a lot more than they are saying. His character never gets frantic or angry over the fact that his wife has gone missing. This lets me to question Nick as a suspect in his wife’s disappearance like everyone else in their small town has. The movie begins and we see Nick walk around and sense that something is just not right. The local authorities arrive and can immediately tell that Amy is gone. Kidnapped. The whole country is watching and anxiously awaiting to see Amy and her safe arrival home. (Dargis) From the very start, Nick is under suspicion by everyone in the country including his own …show more content…
Her voice over of her diary entries intertwined throughout the movie left the impression that Amy would never return. The diary entries that were left behind were of the happy times with her husband Nick and also the times that were abusive. The audience was meant to fall in love with Amy’s character and wish for her safe return or her husband’s confession. Only one of which would happen later in the film. There was an article about Gone Girl by the Sydney Morning Herald that hit the nail on the head and said it simple as possible, “Amy wants us to like her, too. And again, what 's not to like? She is as beautiful as Nick is handsome.”
Nick is a quiet type of person that seems like they are either complex or knows a lot more than they are saying. His character never gets frantic or angry over the fact that his wife has gone missing. This lets me to question Nick as a suspect in his wife’s disappearance like everyone else in their small town has. The movie begins and we see Nick walk around and sense that something is just not right. The local authorities arrive and can immediately tell that Amy is gone. Kidnapped. The whole country is watching and anxiously awaiting to see Amy and her safe arrival home. (Dargis) From the very start, Nick is under suspicion by everyone in the country including his own …show more content…
Her voice over of her diary entries intertwined throughout the movie left the impression that Amy would never return. The diary entries that were left behind were of the happy times with her husband Nick and also the times that were abusive. The audience was meant to fall in love with Amy’s character and wish for her safe return or her husband’s confession. Only one of which would happen later in the film. There was an article about Gone Girl by the Sydney Morning Herald that hit the nail on the head and said it simple as possible, “Amy wants us to like her, too. And again, what 's not to like? She is as beautiful as Nick is handsome.”