Gone Girl

With the contrived roles of husband and wife here, it's not easy to see if this is a serious study or a satire or fictionalized version of life.  The serialized blog-ishness of the diary coupled with the Amazing Amy subtext certainly makes a case for the latter.  Based on the book by Gillian Flynn, a writer for Entertainment Weekly, definitely gives it a breezy feel.

But throw director David Fincher at it and it all comes together well.  His cinematic touches of the watchful cat (Tyler?), the whisky glass, the foreboding shed, were very Fight Club like.  Nice.

Rosamund Pike as Amy is the perfect Ice Queen.  As a friend would say, she must be really good in bed for a man to want to be with her.  Two mean actually.  Ben Affleck plays the Michael Douglas type of husband and Neil Patrick Harris the hapless has-been.  Reality TV plays a major character a well.  Find Amy!  Call 1-855-4-AMY-TIPS!

The movie is an improvement on the book with the stronger roles of Margo, Tanner and Detective Boney.  I also liked the visual gothic shadows and the general fatness of middle America.  Real life in the Heartland is no walk in Central Park.

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