Gone Girl’s original e-book, I can’t stop reading it.
No spoilers.
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David Fincher and Trent Reznor
Fincher can be topped with a good film review, attracting you to automatically watch his movies, because he hasn't made any mediocre films. He has to remake each scene n times, and he is the kind of director who pursues perfection. If you can find the commentary soundtrack of his previous movies, such as Fight Club, the whole movie will be enjoyed only by listening to his narration. It is of a master level. After watching this film, I can't think of anyone other than Fincher who can direct this film well, or who is more suitable for directing this film.
The editing of the movie is really perfect and close, each scene is efficient and meaningful, and the connection between each scene is natural.
Trent Reznor's soundtrack is similar to his style in The Social Network, sometimes not noticed at all, but it can play a role in exaggerating the atmosphere. The first 5 minutes was indeed a bit loud, and I didn't hear what the protagonists were saying, but it was all right later. I found it again these days and listened to it, and it feels wonderful.
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casting of actors/characters/acting
films is generally very suitable.
Ben Affleck's husband Nick, the missing wife of Amy, has been susceptible to and criticized by the media and the public in the movie, and is sometimes sought after and praised. Affleck is considered to be one of the most suitable actors for this character among the big names of this age in Hollywood. Affleck was only 25 years old when he won the Oscar, and he was very high-spirited. Later, after dating Jennifer Lopez, he became a victim of paparazzi. In 2003, he shot Gigli with J-Lo and Daredevil with his current wife Jennifer Garner. One can be regarded as one of the worst films in film history. His career slipped, his relationship failed, and he finally managed to climb back to the top through The Town and Argo, and because he became the new Batman, he suffered the biggest casting controversy in history. So his performance is natural and quiet, which may be largely attributed to his personal experience. In fact, Fincher picked him because of his heavy, eye-catching jaw. But this character is not necessarily Affleck himself. Although the role of Nick was misunderstood by the impetuous public, he also used that impetuousness to beautify his image. Affleck himself sneered at this point. He said that all the publicity and interviews he did for the film, his talk and attitude, in the final analysis, do not prove who he is.
Interesting little anecdote: Originally, Nick would wear a Yankees hat in New York. If you know where Ben Affleck is from, you will understand that Yankees and Red Socks are rivals, and Affleck would not wear their hats even when he died. With Fincher's insistence, he finally wore the New York Mets hat, which was a compromise. In addition, he is already very strong in the movie, you can see his Batman temperament, everyone look forward to it.
Rosamund Pike, who plays Amy, used to be a Bond girl or a villain. In the 007 that Harry Berry and her co-existed at the same time, who would pay attention to people other than Berry? Even if she played Tang's female number one in Jack Reacher, she still didn't impress me. But in this movie, she has too many roles, which gives her plenty of space to play her acting skills. From facial expressions to conversation, she is very persuasive. She will definitely be nominated as the best actress candidate by the academy. As for winning the award, it depends on how awesome Amy Adams, Reese Witherspoon and others are. Fincher chose her to play because he liked her certain temperament. He didn't know what it was. Until one day, Fincher asked Pike: Are you the only child? Pike said, yes. Fincher said, no wonder (the role of Amy is the only daughter who is highly anticipated by her parents)! These little things are very interesting, and I learned that these things are very lucky to watch interviews with low exposure. It can also be seen how detailed Fincher controls the operation of the entire film.
Tyler Perry plays a lawyer. If you don't know who he is, then you are lucky as a non-American audience, because you really don't need to watch all other movies he plays (the general plot involves him dressed up as an aunt). But in this scene, he acts as a lawyer who specializes in acquittal of criminal suspects who are of special concern to the public (I suddenly remembered Greed in Se7en). Of course, he will naturally be cast into some unnecessary hatred by the society. Probably because of the American public's dislike of Tyler Perry's past films, the lawyer he played was calm and steady when faced with that kind of negative attitude, and he was also more comfortable.
The only thing that is a bit strange is Neil Patrick Harris. I think he is a very talented actor and very playful, but choosing him to play that role feels that the strength and power are not enough, but it is also a personal feeling.
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Plot
The movie is basically a case of disappearance. You don't need to know too much, just know to watch it.
I need to talk briefly about the three themes involved in the movie that I can clearly feel:
First, media scrutiny, online resentment, and public outrage
. There is an episode of HBO’s The Newsroom that specifically named and analyzed Nancy Grace’s TV show. How to manipulate the public’s understanding of the case and the attitude of the defendant through over-interpretation and analysis of court videos. This film also expresses this phenomenon in a subtle but very obvious way.
You sit in front of the TV and watch the news. You don’t know a person at all. Just because of an expression, a sentence, and an action, after listening to the commentator’s analysis, you immediately understand the whole incident and understand the person’s character and motivation. This is very crazy, but it is also often done by mainstream American media. It is a great sadness. In fact, although China’s policies and case-related news do not have such over-analysis (I wonder why), Hong Kong’s paparazzi newspapers, including mainland entertainment TV, reality shows, and Weibo, all make people’s attention through exaggeration and hype. This is not a problem unique to the United States. It is a general environment created by the capital market after finding people's current divergent, impetuous, and stimulating problems, and exploiting and exploiting the weaknesses of human nature. Bystanders in the film are excited to interpret and speculate everything from nothing to nothing. The audience of the film can naturally see the absurdity-people are too easily captured by the media. What Wang Feng, what Faye Wong, what Jaycee Chan's name, you think you know enough to judge and discuss others, but how much do you know? You are only presented with a story, which is very inciting, but if you are incited, it will only waste a lot of time in the end. I like the silent comments of movies very much.
Second, the lies of perfect marriage and perfect love
The stories about the heroes and heroines in the movie are very beautiful, the men are funny and charming, and the women are also very cool (The Cool Girl). But you and I both know how hard you are to cover yourself when you meet the opposite sex outside, and superficial love is always so easy. In addition, love has been commercialized, romanticized, and sensationalized. People's understanding of love has long been blurred, so that they have completely forgotten their own concealment, their own lies, and neglected the other's shortcomings and the other's mask (see listen Eason Chan's "Eye-opening (Returning to True Form)"), in the end everyone "falls in love" with someone they don't really love. In marriage, you can't be false forever. You will inevitably show up in your original clothes. After that, the marriage will encounter catastrophic problems. If you have not been in an intimate relationship for a long time, have not really known each other, and have not explored the possibility of hating each other after exposing each other, how can we be confident that our marriage will be perfect? How to make the marriage vows happily and unfettered? I personally often feel and dislike these "tradition", "value" and even "task lists" that the society puts on us, and the movie fully reflects some extreme consequences. I always think that we have population problems, and marriage and children cannot be a qualitative value for life.
Third, gender, social roles, Feminism
(slightly spoiled, please spare the following paragraph if you haven’t watched the movie)
The film focuses on the game between Amy and Nick, and attracts the audience’s attention to Amy’s cold tactics. What everyone sees is the old-fashioned "woman who is doing something with a man, so she takes revenge on this man." In the plot, women seem to be powerful, but her world still revolves around men, and her life is still a subsidiary of men's life (reminds me of the bad movie "The Other Woman"). Amy is wrong, unhealthy, and on the one hand, it is due to the reasons mentioned above. But there is also a female agent in the movie. Her insight, her intuition, her IQ, and her ability to handle cases are all superior to her peers. And Nick's younger sister, Margo, is Nick's spiritual pillar and his moral balance. There are a lot of interesting women in this movie, but they don't have the beauty of Amy, and they don't get the compensation that Amy gets at the end. This is a very realistic detail. In today's society, the right to speak is still with men. The most popular woman is the kind of woman who conforms to the image envisioned by the society, and Amy plays that woman perfectly. Why has this social goal of equality between men and women been solved so slowly, and why are there all kinds of noisy voices in feminism? See first, the capacity of the media is powerful.
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sum up, David Fincher did not disappoint me again. This movie is a superb work. Although the last part of this article is a personal experience, no one may agree with it. But it cannot be denied that the whole film is very satisfying from editing, soundtrack, rhythm and plot entertainment. When there was a lot of laughter from beginning to end, it was one of the best experiences of watching movies this year.
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