This is of course an opportunistic translation of the name. "Gone Lover" is a more literal translation, but at the same time it ignores the importance of the word "girl" in the whole film. His wife, Amy, is the object of disappearance, and at the same time, it is a staggered In the process of searching, the subjective perspective in the form of a diary is loaded with the dual role of creating suspense and breaking suspense, and how to understand the occurrence of this series of events requires "girl" to understand the complex state of affairs inside: it is a kind of regression Did the girl really yearn for freedom, or did the change in her identity as a wife lead to this disappearance? This film, which is positioned as the third level in Hong Kong, is dressed in suspense and releases various heavy visual elements, from the battle of the flesh and the lust of the skin to the confrontation of the soul of sadomasochism. While the surface narrative attracts the audience, It also subverts the usual Hollywood taste in minutes. To a certain extent, the main line of "finding a wife" comes to an abrupt end in the middle of the film, but the second level of "heart battle" that opens at the same time is not unexpected. , but still very creepy.
The core of the original sin of disappearance lies in the wife's diary and narration that run through the plot, and in each flashback that occurs simultaneously with the present tense, indicating the undercurrents and undercurrents of the golden boy and girl's pre- and post-marital and writing careers. "Gone Lover" seems to explain a process and raise various questions like all Hollywood popular romance dramas, which makes people reflect on marriage in the "treasure hunt" activity of "finding a wife" and also a wedding anniversary. But David Fincher is definitely not here. While weaving an intriguing arrest, he also uses all narrative fulcrums and action branches to quietly advance the plot to a delicate situation where it is on the verge of getting out of control but not out of control. The news talk shows that keep appearing in the film play an important role in the escalation and magnification of the whole situation. They are the epitome of media power and media crimes in the modern era. The same thing, today may be a joke between husband and wife, tomorrow will be described as a cheating husband. Meticulously planned to kill his wife, and the day after tomorrow, it became a place for a husband suffering from mental torment to complain. The host Zhu Yan did not change, and the price of the scene on the stage changed. In the end, with the help of this show, Nick was able to save face from the out-of-control situation, as if all the dust had settled, and the reversal was still to come, a typical symbiosis of beauty and evil in the era of information explosion.
In short, the disappearance of the wife does not mark the end of the film’s development according to the established model, nor does it even repeat the peeping on women in the traditional sense. On the contrary, in this film, women through the absence of their bodies create a kind of body The scene of the lost soul of the men present can also be seen in Gillian Flynn's original novel, and as a video product, only from the flashbacks of Rosamund Pike, the actress of "Gone Girl," in her diary. It can already be seen in the play that David Fincher (or Flynn, who continues to adapt his own novel), has taken great pains to adjust the two-and-a-half-hour length and the suspense and the means of revealing after the suspense, and Parker is not disgraced. Mission, to present what may be the most exciting female role performance of the year, which shocked the audience, and "Nick" Ben Affleck (who is already a Hollywood producer, writer, director, and all-rounder) The performance in the film is quite restrained , as the protagonist who is in front of the camera most of the time, this restrained temperament implies that the "missing" wife is not hidden behind the screen, on the contrary, this disappearance makes the husband Nick (Affleck) more and more silent And passive, facing the accusations and suspicions of "heartless man" and "murderer", and facing the turbulent and unpredictable ending together with the audience. It is this subtle advance and retreat that makes people unable to stop in the steady rhythm. It's like the monster in Finch's "Alien 3" that sees the head but not the tail, and provokes the spoiled body and mind of the audience.
"Xinmin Weekly" Issue 6, 2015
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