I'm just going to start by saying I did not like
Gone Girl. This film featuring Ben Affleck, Rosamond Pike, and Neil Patrick Harris was not short of great performances by any means. Rosamond was even nominated for an academy award for best actress in this film, but it simply comes down to the fact that it was an hour too long. That being said, the whole story would have changed. We find out that Nick, played by Affleck, was actually the victim of Rosamund's character, Amy Dunne. We are expected to believe for a while that Nick killed Amy but then we obviously find out her little scheme. It should have ended there. At this point in the film, we hated Nick and how he treated Amy in the later years of their marriage and she just wanted a way out. Imagine the ultimate revenge against him would have been plotting your own murder and him getting framed for it. In the scene where we see her driving off into the sunset and she starts unfolding everything that happened to her, just imagine the movie ending right there. It would have been such an amazing plot twist that Alfred Hitchcock himself would have turned over in his grave. I mean I sat there watching this movie with my sister and we both agreed that the ending to this movie was psychotic. Is is supposed to be that way? Definitely. It
is solely based off of Gillian Flynn's novel of the same title. I just can't stop thinking about how awesome this story could have been if it ended an hour earlier. Amy would be a hero to women across America who have been abused by their husbands! There would be an epidemic of women trying to send their husbands to jail for their murder. Maybe that's far fetched but who knows in this day and age. Anyway, I feel like this story was meticulously drawn out into a beautiful crystal vase only to be knocked down and broken into a million skin slicing pieces and we are left to bleed across the floor. Flynn is a critically acclaimed writer and I'm sure the movie does not give the book any justice, but I'm a watcher and I would like to see more of her novels come to the silver screen... so long as they don't get weirdly psychotic at the end. I mean who stays with their wife when you know that she murdered some other guy and ruined another guy's life? That part just doesn't make any sense. I demand a new ending and since that isn't going to happened I get to put my big spiel online for no one to read anyway. As always, I recommend everyone to check this movie out and create your own opinion.
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