Crime Drama Film: Gone Girl Directed By Gillian Flynn

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Gone Girl is a crime-drama film that premiered in 2014 based on a novel by Gillian Flynn. The movie begins with Nick Dunne, the husband of Amy Dunne sitting at the bar that he and his sister own. The two are talking about how it is his and Amy’s five-year anniversary and complaining that his past with Amy was a lot better than their relationship currently is. As Nick arrives home, a messy sight greets him within his house; there are signs of torture and Amy is nowhere to be found. The police start to investigate Amy’s disappearance and as times goes on, all the clues begin to lead to her husband. Even though his wife is deemed missing, Nick continues his affair. The affair has been going on for over a year, with his girlfriend who is in her …show more content…
Women are labeled as emotional, dramatic, and sensitive throughout their life. “Nick wants me gone, but he won’t ask for a divorce” Amy says. She was not treated with respect and did not receive the love she craved. At this point she simply wanted her husband to either leave her or love her. In this regard, the film portrays a sexist view. Amy is seen as the crazy, jealous, manipulative wife and Nick is portrayed as just a man who happens to be helpless and stuck in this marriage with no way out. Within the film, Nick blames Amy for his troubles and for being unhappy; he essentially labels her as a scapegoat. Scapegoat is defined by (Macionis, Benoit, Jansson, & Burkowicz, 2017. P 352) as “a category of people, typically with little power, whom people unfairly blame for their own troubles.” Amy is a woman, and women are considered to be minorities who are viewed as people with little power. Within their home, all the bills are under Amy’s name; even the bar that Nick owns is under her name. This may have made Nick feel bad about his life, especially because he lost his job as a writer. In order to feel superior to Amy, Nick may have felt that cheating was a comforting feeling in having his dominance and masculinity …show more content…
is the Nick I fell in love with.” Which he replied, “you know I was just telling you what you wanted to hear.” This scene is heartbreaking because the reason she ran away was to have her husband want her back and love her the way he used to. However, he is telling her he only said those things in order to make her come back and prove he did not kill her. The reality here is that Amy still loves Nick, but Nick does not want anything to do with Amy anymore. This should not be looked at as “us vs. them.” We all go through life and experience problems, we all react to those problems in life in different ways. Amy wants to do anything she can to make Nick stay because she loves him and wants him to love her the way he did

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