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In response to
"Gone Girl may be the best 90s movie ever, and I think it could have been as good or better starring Tom Cruise. -- nm"
by
Max
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SPOILER comments inside
Posted by
Max
Oct 5 '14, 22:35
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I say 90s movie because both the dialogue and the atmosphere felt very much like a 90s movie. I'm willing to bet the novel was conceived 20 years ago. The movie reminded me of The Last Seduction, Sliver, Presumed Innocent, and Disclosure.
I knew nothing about the book or movie a week ago. My brother gave a little away by mentioning Ratajkowski but then refusing to say more, so I started to think I had been spoiled and imagined that a mistress had killed Affleck's wife so that he could pass a lie detector test when saying "I" didn't kill my wife. I don't think it's quite necessary to keep the mistress a secret though. Even if you didn't know that was coming, it's no surprise at all considering you already know that Affleck hates his wife. Still, I didn't see Rosumund's plan coming. But when she went on the lam I started to imagine two endings: either she gets killed by a vagrant and goes to a potter's grave, leaving Affleck on the hook for her death (despite no body), or he finds her and kills her because he's on the hook for it anyway and somehow gets away with it.
I kept thinking NPH was gay and that was why she trusted him. I think making the character a weird sleeper cell stalker is kind of a cheap device. That part made me think of the secret basement in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
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