This viewer's wife also identifies with Amy.
Is Amy actually crazy, a psychopath? This viewer and admirer of the film has doubts. Perhaps Amy lives life on a much higher, intellectual and emotional plane than most of us mere mortals. In the beginning Amy meets one helluva handsome man, capable of some semi-witty banter that wants a "cool" girl. Amy decides to become his "cool" girl, they fall in love, that love is genuine and they have some hellacious sex during the good days. After a while Amy brings up the "B" word and Nick freaks. She witnesses Nick with the cute coed that has the big, cum-on-me tits and decides she will not be a woman scorned, tossed aside for a new and younger "cool" girl.
Amy devises a plan to punish her philandering husband that refuses to mature, actually do some work and make some money to support a family. However, as has been stated, Amy's emotions are of a much more intense nature than most young women's who would have allowed themselves to become a one-time loser, divorced. Her plan is ingenious, she fools the cops, the press and the numbskulls watching the Boob Tube all the while playing a nasty game with Nick. During her stay at the run down motel she experiences an epiphany and realizes it is not necessary to commit suicide for her plan to succeed. Unfortunately for her though, the supposedly ignorant hillbillies pull off a scam and she winds up broke.
Whether Amy arranges or the meeting up with Desi is coincidental is inconsequential. The important development is that Amy's controlling stalker type from boarding school Desi, imprisons her in his palatial guest house. While watching Nick lying through his teeth on TV she realizes that she is still in love with him because that is what she prefers to think. It then becomes necessary to rid herself of Desi once and for all and return to her beloved. What a way to go man, getting your throat box-cut in the midst of ejaculating. The screenplay achieves a new height of creativity with that murder as well as downright cruelty on the part of Amy although some viewers may be of the opinion that Desi gets his just desserts.
So Amy returns "home" and to Nick with him hating her guts. A conversation ensues.........
Nick Dunne: You *beep* *beep*
Amy Dunne: I'm the *beep* you married. The only time you liked yourself was when you were trying to be someone this *beep* might like. I'm not a quitter, I'm that *beep* I killed for you; who else can say that? You think you'd be happy with a nice Midwestern girl? No way, baby! I'm it.
Nick Dunne: *beep* You're delusional. I mean, you're insane, why would you even want this? Yes, I loved you and then all we did was resent each other, try to control each other. We caused each other pain.
Amy Dunne: That's marriage.
So who is crazy?
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