She is a Type A. She
is a decorated scholar, bright and kind in personality. 5 years in the
institution called marriage and still, you wouldn’t notice a single line of
discontentment on her highly proud forehead. She is the ‘amazing Amy’ her proud
parents has based their bedtime-story series on. She herself is a writer with
almost no friends in the quite friendlier town of Missouri. She is missing from
her house, under suspicious circumstances.
He is a Type B. He
is a writer too but the mean times of recession have had him quite bad. His
double-chinned face has a villainous impression, according to his wife of 5
years. He’s lethargically casual, wittily complaining and looks hardly
convinced about his wife & marriage. He is the prime suspect behind his
wife’s disappearance, possibly murdered by now.
David Fincher is
back in theatres with GONE GIRL- a relentlessly engaging missing-drama that
never approves you sitting quietly through any of its chain of events. The
incredulity in the character you had just made likeable to you and your own
sense of judgment getting activated soon after the air gets clear keeps you in
an unsettling mood & mode of ‘What might have happened?’ to ‘What actually
has happened?”.
Adapted for the
screen from the bestselling novel by screenwriter Gillian Flynn, GONE GIRL is
more of a psychological drama than a crime-thriller. One fine morning on his Fifth
marriage anniversary, Nick [Messily cool & composed Ben Affleck] returns to
his home to find his wife Amy [Mysteriously ‘a treat-to-eyes’ Rosamund Pike] missing.
Before the local detectives [Kim Dickens plays one of the two] could actually
give the investigation a demanding pace comes the frenzied whirl of media to
cover the story. It takes no time to trace the disrespect, missing love,
dishonesty and the tense-air between the two in the married life. Rest follows
the twisted plot, diverse perspectives to events and a layer-on-layer
dissection of the most researched and widely conversed social school of commitment
i.e. marriages!
Taking from the original
work of fiction, David creates a parallel narrative of one in present with Nick
getting plunged into the proceedings of investigation, while the other goes
back in regular intervals to revisit the good old times of romance blooming in the
air. David successfully hammers on the role of media and the broaden technology
juicing the best they want. When the mother announces a dedicated website &
hotline number to find any clue of her missing daughter, you sure find yourself
in the midst of generous giggling and joining it with equal force.
With a haunting background
score and commendably cinematographed scenes, GONE GIRL gels well with absolutely
in-sync performances of Affleck and Pike both. Affleck with his paunchy,
weathered, sluggish look and the contagious resilience in attitude delivers his
most pitiable yet pretentious character on screen. Pike surprises you with the
most being unforeseen and undercover due to the twists in the plot. I wish I could
unravel more to add more to illustrate her part here. In short and sweet, it’s
a stellar.
And the final word
on the film! GONE GIRL is one the best thrillers, this year! No doubt on that. The
duration and the pace could sure make you shifting eyes from the screen but the
finesse in the storytelling and the craftsmanship involved will pay you back of
your every single penny spent on it. Missing this ‘Missing Story’ is not at all recommended! [4/5]
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