This is an airtight interrogation and reflection on married life, directed at the most common sexual affairs. "Hollywood's Prince of Darkness" David Fincher casts it as a thriller, escalating in a quest for the truth, revenge, murder, lies, paranoia after a well-planned disappearance farce Come, the roller coaster-like plot constantly presents solving puzzles and self-subversion. "Gone Lover" perfectly interprets what is Finch-style suspense. It tore through the splendid face of daily life, and put the hidden unease and even the blood behind it on the table, and displayed it naked. David Fincher skillfully manipulates grim images, and in one hundred and eighty minutes, transforms a man and a woman from an enviable golden boy to a weary beast in a marriage siege, turning a haircut. Love from the heart eventually degenerates into a meticulously concocted drama. "Gone Lover" sounded a terrifying wake-up call around sweet and happy lovers: There may be only one step between marriage and the grave.
"Gone Girl" begins with the weary monologue of lead actor Nick Dunn (Ben Affleck), "What the hell are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other?" tender close-up Capturing the hair and face of his wife, Amy (Rosamond Pike), the frame is tinged with unease because of the cool-toned light. After the relatively soothing opening remarks, the rhythm of the film's progress gradually accelerated. Nick's wife mysteriously disappeared on the fifth anniversary of their marriage, and she left the unfortunate man an empty suburban villa. The coffee table was smashed in the living room. Is this a kidnapping/homicide for a reason, or a horrific conspiracy with a bravado?
In the process of tracking Amy's whereabouts, David Fincher tried his best to show his "badness" - through the flashback clips of the hero and heroine, he explained the cause and effect of the two people's acquaintance; after the incident, Nick and his relatives and friends The intricate reactions of friends have to some extent constructed a more mysterious relationship between husband and wife. When Amy's dusty diary is finally discovered, Nick, the informant, appears to be the biggest suspect. However, when all the clues point to a definite ending, is there a possibility that this single answer can be subverted? "Gone Lover" tells you that there is! Although David Fincher has always had the pleasure of teasing the audience's IQ, in this film he doesn't take the audience for a fool, revealing the truth about Amy's disappearance early in the film halfway through: the elite The petty love under the flower before the moon is no match for the stumbling of tea, rice, oil and salt. Although love is good, marriage is boring, and what is even worse is that her husband cheats and plays a teacher-student relationship. The wife's anger came from it, and she wanted to take revenge, so there was this self-directed and self-acted disappearance, almost watertight crime scene, a vivid lesson for the girls who aspired to become a new generation of "husband terminators".
Writing here, it must be said that a good movie is not afraid of spoilers. On the contrary, when you think the truth is revealed, a good show has just begun. "Gone Girl" is not a high-IQ film, "Where is Amy" is not the question it wants to answer, the disappearance and appearance of the heroine is just an excellent introduction, and the film has a sociological perspective on modern married life. Discuss, and the real climax finally comes, no less brutal than a murder, sweet and disillusioned, and chilling. When a movie tries to explain to us the falling apart of a relationship, there's a good chance it'll fall into the rut of boredom by relying too much on moral judgment. The director often guides the audience to a hasty trial by various means, and at the end preaches a self-evident universal concept, such as the self-clearance of the loyal, the disappearance of lies, and so on. The genius of "Gone Lover" is precisely that it does the opposite. David Fincher uses a multi-line narrative technique to lay out the voices of different characters in the same video text. , while using fast editing to disrupt the weight of time and space, and throwing fragmented information into every corner of the film; while disrupting the audience's constant thinking with Rashomon-style viewpoint switching. This is a typical film that relies on narrative means to win. The plot is constantly shifting between reality and fiction, creating emotional bursts every now and then. But when all the plot clues converged into a single line, the truth of the incident gradually became clear, and the audience thought that they had become "all-knowing God", only to realize that the direction of the story had already exceeded their expectations, and the suffocating marriage was like a black cloud. It's like a life sentence that is hard to escape, and all of Nick and Amy's actions can be interpreted as a kind of hysteria trying to get out of the cage. The thirst for moral judgment disappears automatically, because under the lens of David Fincher, the victim and the perpetrator are not diametrically opposed. In the context of contemporary society, these are just labels constructed by public discourse.
"Gone Lover" does not stick to discussing the right and wrong of love in a closed space, but joins a broader social dimension, showing people how the "good intentions" intervention of the mass media can destroy a relationship faster and give birth to different relationships. A chilling media performance. When Nick tried to use the means of crisis public relations in a TV interview, trying to shape his image as a good husband; when Amy, who had returned, still spoke in a tone of voice about her life-long experience, and prayed to be able to reunite with Nick. The quality of deception has become a disguise in the public sphere, and the darkness in marriage is magnified by words and images, and finally becomes an unfinished endgame. If the blood and death in the first half of the case satisfied the bystanders' desire for bizarre narratives, the affectionate call for "the prince and the princess live happily together", and their almost cowardly attachment to the happy ending, Even if you know that a perfect life is made up of many falsehoods, you will not hesitate to pursue "falsehoods that are more true than true."
Despite the horrors of modern marriage and the absurdity of modern media, David Fincher encourages everyone to see "Gone Girl", even claiming that it's a dating movie, "It's going to be the one between you and your lover. An excellent dinner topic." Maybe in marriage, the truth will always be absent. Just like in movies, "the father says the public is right, and the mother says the mother is right" is the normal state that we must take calm. In that case, let's enjoy the sin and beauty in it.
2014-11 "Film World"
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