I have always heard about this movie but had no idea what it was about. As the director is David Fincher, I assumed a bit about what I might be seeing. This is an adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s 2012 mystery novel. A rich, successful, and satisfying adaptation indeed. It’s always exciting if you have to keep guessing until the end of the movie, Gone Girl can successfully give that excitement to you. 

On the fifth wedding anniversary of a couple (Nick Dunne and Amy Dunne), the wife goes missing. The husband soon suspected, slowly falls deeper into something which was created by her wife. 

The story starts with the scene of one fine morning in Missouri where Nick Dunne goes to his bar and talks to his sister. When he comes back home he finds his wife Amy was missing. The movie is seen playing two kinds of storytelling. Present and past. In the past, it shows how Nick and Amy met with each other in New York and how their relationship was in Missouri. 

Nick and Amy were two young writers in New York. They met in there. They seem perfect to each other from all the dates they had in there and in the library. They got married. But they had to move to Missouri because of the sickness of Nick’s mother which was quite unacceptable to Amy and they both lost their jobs in the 2008 recession. In Missouri, Nick got involved with one of his students and Amy found that out. 

When Amy goes missing, the cops find a bunch of journals in which Amy claims that she was being abused by Nick and was in fear that he was going to kill her. From this, the cops think that Nick killed Amy. They assured themselves more after they found blood splashed in the kitchen. 

Soon the plot turns into something interesting and complex when Amy is seen on a highway driving a car and the screen says it was just after the news of her missing. Then we realize the central mystery of “Gone Girl” is not about what happened to Amy but rather about who they two really are. 

Here’s two dialogue by Amy from the movie:

“When two people love each other and can’t make it work, that’s the real tragedy.”

And,

“I have killed for you. Who else can say that?”

In a Nutshell 

“Gone Girl” is good for twisted humor, an example of a modern day thriller, a cynical caricature of modern relationships. The character Amy is fascinating and complex. Whether you will be happy or sad by the conclusion you can’t differentiate the morality of “Gone Girl”.  Another best one from David Fincher.