Gone Girl

Sometimes, you can know what a movie is gonna do, and still be caught off guard. This is one of those cases. I knew the basic twist of Gone Girl. But I didn’t know how far it went, and how sordid and insane this movie got, and how well Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck did in portraying this incredibly toxic couple that could never be honest with one another, even in private. I don’t wanna say a lot about it, because the way this movie keeps throwing curveballs is a masterclass in script writing and direction. You will rarely feel the movie’s length (only, for me, in what amounts to the movie’s epilogue), because it knows just how and when to give you something new. So, yeah, short review, but a crazy movie like this kinda has to be without going into spoilers, and if you’ve made it this far in life without having seen it like I have, I want whoever reads this to go in knowing as little as possible. Other than to buckle up.