Gone Girl - Why Amy's Fury Still Resonates 10 Years Later

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It’s been a decade since David Fincher’s adaptation of Gone Girl hit our screens and sent waves through society. Amy Dunne was villainous, vengeful, and… also kind of relatable. And while the story was grounded in its era, it’s in many ways even more relevant today. 00:00 Intro

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[eronanke]

I feel crazy and isolated because I do not like this movie at all.

Amy is stupid. Either kill him or leave him. Take your money and move to Paris. The whole vengeance plot is unnecessary.

Like, girl, what's the goal? You want to stay with him? Make him beg because you chose a loser for a husband? Fuck that.

I genuinely don't understand people who admire her, even ironically.

And the whole "cool girl" dialog is pathetic. Grow up and get some therapy.

[ponyboy]

THERE ARE DOZENS OF GONE GIRL HATERS!

[marywebgirl]

I think part of the point of what she did is that she didn't have any money. She had enough to get the shitty car and the cabin in the Ozarks for a few weeks, but that's not really start a new life in Paris (or even get divorced) money. She could have gone back to her parents, but she hated them, too (that's clearer in the book).

[eronanke]

So instead of asking her parents (whom she despised) she decided to.... Kill herself? And then change her mind?

It's just incomprehensible to me.

Start a new life in Mexico, girl. No one has trapped you but YOU.

[marywebgirl]

Something that never made sense to me about the movie was what she was putting her parents through, but the book makes it clear that she hates them and is OK with making them suffer, too. Also in the book Nick finds an old classmate that she tortured who's a girl, whereas the movie kind of implies that just does this revenge stuff with men. She's just shitty and doesn't get along with anyone.

[ferelden]

I’m in the same boat as you. I didn’t vibe with the movie or book at all. Like…just leave him girl. This is a lot of effort for a man.

[eronanke]

And especially BEN AFFLECK.
I just can't with that casting.

[butter01]

I thought Ben's casting was as perfect as it gets. Both leads really.

[rubie_dubidoux]

I think it's a little more clear in the book since you get more of her interiority but she's also incredibly self-centered & vain, so to her this is how she gets out of this marriage while also making herself a martyr and never having to admit defeat. I like the movie a lot but I actually think the casting of Rosamund Pike may have been something of a mistake, or at least it radically alters the perception of the character as written - she's not really supposed to be this take-no-shit ice queen. apparently Reese Witherspoon was in the running when the rights were first optioned and while I think she's a little too Southern, that kind of demeanor would have fit the character more and really altered the impact/reveal of her actions in the movie, imo

[nomoneyfun]

LOL, I like the movie as an allegory for how thankless it is to be someone's wife and how the benefits of hetero marriage go to men even a man's wife is a legit sociopath. Cecilia Regina has a few good videos that analyzes these tropes:

https://www.tiktok.com/@ceciliaregina275/video/7349646206676602155
https://www.tiktok.com/@ceciliaregina275/video/7288798847357291806

[am2m]

agreed

also, love Cecilia Regina

[nomoneyfun]

She's my favorite TikToker because her analysis of pop culture and relationship dynamics is undefeated

[pseudonygma]

Those truth bombs are brutal. Ooof.

[icetypejim]

I actually like this movie, but the conversation around it sometimes really makes it feel like Joker for upper-middle-class white women, which is why I think it's so funny that she has to abandon her whole plan and go back to her shitty husband because another woman from far worse circumstances clocked that she was lying, stole her money, and told her to stop frauding like she's anything other than a pampered princess.

[meadowphoenix]

well technically she goes to her stalker first and that other woman is also in league with another violent man. the story to me is less joker for white women, and more "soft power is a lie and doesn't counteract male violence in any way"

[angriest_girl]

I didn’t like the movie but I did enjoy the book, so I do sort of agree with you. I haven’t read it since it came out though so I don’t know if it would hold up for me.

I also find that cool girl speech really cringe.