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.

[erin805]

I loved the book and movie but I cannot stand the way the media and scumbag men use a FICTIONAL female character to malign real life women victims, Amber Heard & Jennifer Dulos are just 2 of many that get painted as super villains

[januarysix]

They would do that anyways. Don’t blame the book 😒

[scriptedending]

Good source material, good director, good lead... shocked it's held up!!! lol

So overdue for a rewatch of this, but I wanna wait til it screens somewhere.

[ponyboy]

she's a white woman MRA fantasy who's a clasisist. violent misogynist herself. the cool girl monolog is funny bc she's accusing these women of doing things for men when she's the one who chose to do that and more importantly none of the women shown in the cool girl montage are performing for men. they are literally by themselves. this movie is fight club for mostly cishet white women who wish they could be like this but can't.

[ferelden]

Yeah this is a red flag movie to me. If I meet someone and they idolize Amy I’m out of there. I don’t need friends who say the cool girl monologue at their reflection to feel something.

[januarysix]

I mean it could be both? She's right that men want a girl that caters to them and she's also chastising herself for doing the same?

there is a similar little line in the movie "set it up" where glen powell's character says "guys love girls who love sports" and Zoey's character clarifies that guys "think that they like girls who like sports. What they actually like is a girl in a very tight sports jersey, serving them wings and getting the terminology wrong. Guys like girls who like guys who like sports."

[ponyboy]

she is not chastising herself lmao. she's insufferably rich white woman smug looking down on other women.

[asnindie]

I watched a Kate Hudson film and she's the quintessential cool girl in literally all her films

Amy is a psycho though. Lbr. She's a narcissist who chose marry a narcissist and is shocked he's a piece of shit.