Married people often cheat and lose their jobs, when that happens they get divorced. How can anyone see what she did, and why she said she did it, as anything other than psychotic? If this was a film about an insane, dangerous woman, and that's the way viewers saw it, then I have no issue. But I don't think that's what most people who watched it saw or felt.
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No-one SANE (key word!) is saying he 'deserved' it, are they?! They're just pointing out that he wasn't a great guy, either - and he wasn't - she was just even worse...
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
if there's one thing i've learned in all my years of tv and film watching, is that infidelity is worse than murder. seriously. someone cheats and all of a sudden everyone's calling for their head to be cut off. i'm of the opinion men are just dogs and it's in their DNA to cheat and when i get married it won't be my dealbreaker. that's just me.
back to the film: I'm of the opinion i also didn't think Ben Affleck's character was a bad guy. it's like someone else said: Amy had ALWAYS been psycho. she was an only child, whose only child syndrome was elevated by the 'amazing amy' books. how could she NOT come out a narcissist? she thought she was the best thing since sliced bread and had an ego from here to the moon and how dare nick cheat on her after everything she 'sacrificed' for him. nick was just the unfortunate schmuck who got caught up in her craziest of schemes.
He was born a man. Dats how it works nowadays.
shareI hate to be one of those who brings the book up, but I am.
While you get the info that she accused her ex-bf of raping her because he was pulling away from her, you find out so much more in the book about how psychotic and pathological she really is. The smallest thing will set her off and her wheels would start spinning.
How to get even, how to teach them a lesson, etc...
The fact that she had this man who loved her throughout their lives, who would do anything for her, and she comes around to kill him to suit her story, it's beyond anything resembling sanity.
She wanted Nick to be the man he was when they married. He was disappointing her. Add in an affair and Amy NEEDED him to learn a lesson from this. He didn't deserve what she did to him.
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People kill their spouses in real life over cheating - it's the betrayal that makes them go crazy. It's not right, but it happens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAIJ3Rh5Qxs
Amy is definitely very disturbed, but playing devil's advocate, the film paints Nick as an apathetic loser who is satisfied with cheating on his wife with college students and hanging out in his sinking bar everyday with his sister. He lost his sense of purpose. In a crazy way, Amy gave that back to him by her odd actions. Nick was in a no-win situation because if he left Amy, he'd be leaving his unborn child to be raised by a psychopath, and by staying with her, he's essentially an accomplice after the fact. I felt completely sorry for him.
shareThe film didn't spend much time on the central relationship. It would have been a lot more interesting if it had. Gone Girl is only a psychological mystery on the surface. Its shortcomings reduce it to a trashy melodrama.
I've noticed how second-rate screenwriters always try to engineer witty, unique meetings between lovers - which is what Flynn did. She wastes time on this nonsense instead of portraying how the romance turns into mutual contempt. At the end, nobody can comprehend why Nick chooses to resume his life with a manipulative homicidal sour-faced shrew. After his interview with the ex-boyfriend he knows she is utterly deceitful, ruthless and lacks a conscience - and Nick really isn't the type for a lifetime of noble self-sacrifice. These oversights in plot and character are signs of facile fiction and screen-writing.
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bremen?
shareNo one I know saw it that way. They are both terrible except the wife is obviously worse.
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