The first chosen scene fades into a close up view of the back of Amy Dunne’s head. The setting is the Dunne’s bedroom, giving a sense of intimacy. Nick Dunne’s voice is heard before any visuals are shown. He voices his desire to crack open his wife’s skull and unspool her brains, all the while he is presently caressing her head. He ponders on the “primal questions of any marriage”: What is she thinking, how is she feeling and what are they doing to each other. Amy Dunne then shifts her head to look up at Nick, with a neutral, almost haunting expression on her face. The expression is exaggerated by the use of Fincher’s signature use of shadowing. He likes to use shadow to cover half the face of the character, in this case a side light is used
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Amy is preparing for the TV interview and trying on various black dresses. Again, black, blue and a dull yellow seem to be the colour scheme of the scene. Amy then presents Nick with a gift, a positive pregnancy test. Nick gives her an incredulous look, explaining that this cannot be true and that he is leaving her. She berates him for already being a bad father, and continuing by saying that she could turn his own child against him. Nick proceeds to explode and violently grabs Amy by the neck and shoves her against the wall. Amy proceeds to tell Nick that he wouldn't want to be with anyone but her, because they match each other perfectly. Nick seems defeated at her hands as he looks on helplessly and hopelessly. The stand out elements of the scene was the thoughts that Nick had about his wife in the first scene, coming true. Nick mentioned “cracking her lovely skull” in the first scene, and in this scene we see him physically attempting to do so by grabbing her neck and shoving her aggressively against the wall. The accompanying thud sound exaggerates the move and is amplified. Lighting is once again dark, with shadows surrounding the characters in the profile shot. In contrast to the first scene, the violence is shot at a medium length shot, rather than the close up. The movement of the actor portrays the dynamic
Amy is preparing for the TV interview and trying on various black dresses. Again, black, blue and a dull yellow seem to be the colour scheme of the scene. Amy then presents Nick with a gift, a positive pregnancy test. Nick gives her an incredulous look, explaining that this cannot be true and that he is leaving her. She berates him for already being a bad father, and continuing by saying that she could turn his own child against him. Nick proceeds to explode and violently grabs Amy by the neck and shoves her against the wall. Amy proceeds to tell Nick that he wouldn't want to be with anyone but her, because they match each other perfectly. Nick seems defeated at her hands as he looks on helplessly and hopelessly. The stand out elements of the scene was the thoughts that Nick had about his wife in the first scene, coming true. Nick mentioned “cracking her lovely skull” in the first scene, and in this scene we see him physically attempting to do so by grabbing her neck and shoving her aggressively against the wall. The accompanying thud sound exaggerates the move and is amplified. Lighting is once again dark, with shadows surrounding the characters in the profile shot. In contrast to the first scene, the violence is shot at a medium length shot, rather than the close up. The movement of the actor portrays the dynamic