Gone Girl, a book written by Gillian Flynn, is a compelling mystery and drama focused on the disappearance of a woman named Amy. Two years later this thrilling novel was turned into a nail biting , suspenseful film, directed by David Fincher. Rather you read the book or not, this movie is worth the hype and experience on a Saturday evening. One particular scene, involves Amy (played by Rosamund Pike) changing her identity and going into hiding, at a motel. She develops habits to disguise herself after being plastered on television, billboards, and magazines. Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, both acted amazingly, capturing the roller coaster mentality and reality of these two characters. The production of this film was astounding; creating a visual image through the sound track alone. …show more content…
Based on her impulsive actions, and sudden fear of being abandoned by someone, she shows signs of borderline personality disorder. She also experienced unstable relationships with people (spoiler alert) like the man she was friends with and eventually killing him, framing him as a rapist and emotional abuser. Amy Dunne also experienced symptoms of Munchausen Syndrome. This syndrome is a mental disorder where a person repeatedly acts as if he/she is physically/mentally ill. In Gone girl, this is an ongoing issue for Amy Dunne. (spoiler alert) Not only does she paint the image that she is dead to her husband and family, but creating a new identity, and causing harm to herself and others. I rate this film a 4 out of 4 stars. It had me on the edge of my seat the entire time and kept me guessing even after seeing the
Ken Kesey's award-winning novel, "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", was adapted into a film in 1975 written and directed by New York City native Bo Goldman and Czech director Milos Forman. Towards the end of the novel and film, Chief Bromden escapes from the ward. This scene is conveyed differently in the novel and film; however, there are evident similarities between each form of media. This scene is important to the plot because it wraps up the entire storyline. In the film and novel, similarities within Chief Bromden’s escape from the ward include the way Chief escaped, how he couldn't hear anyone in the ward due to being deaf, and how McMurphy assisted Bromden with gaining his confidence to lift the panel and throw it through the window. McMurphy essentially changed Bromden to help him break out of the asylum and back into the real world.
Amy Van Dorn is a girl with Cerebral Palsy, meaning she has to use a walker and a Pathway in order to speak. Amy is way above average when it comes to intelligence and is definitely aware of the way people see her. To me, i thought that her character was very compelling, because she is not the typical heroine that you read about in every other story. But she is still just as astounding. I also enjoyed how wasn’t afraid to approach people and talk to them even if she knew that they didn’t want to. Especially because not everyone would be willing to just throw themselves out there like she did considering her circumstances.
Not since ‘Babe’ the movie came out, has Ireland been so induced to put down their bacon ‘sarnies' and grab a tin of baked beans instead. The whole Emerald Isle has been taken in by Vodafone’s pink-pint size protagonist, Piggy Sue, to the extent that even the sternest and stoical of hearts have been melted, as the nation has watched Donal, our Piglet rescuing hero, save Sue from the inevitable fate, of ending up jammed between two slices of bread and smothered in ketchup on someones Saturday morning kitchen table.
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is a semi-epistolary novel that takes place from the point of views of a husband and wife, Nick and Amy Dunne. The story about their marriage that readers are first given is one that is seemingly normal and loving, with stereotypical marriage drama. Amy met Nick in New York, quickly fell in love with him, and got happily married. Amy is a smart, beautiful, and wealthy wife who is lucky to have a doting husband. But when Nick and Amy lose their jobs in the same year, they move to Nick’s hometown, an insignificant town in Missouri. Soon after the move, Amy goes missing without a trace and her husband becomes the primary suspect. However, appearances are deceiving and the truth becomes unraveled as the novel progresses;
Making a decision that changed her life, Amy chooses to become, the most beloved fictional character, “Amazing Amy”. Throughout many years, she became a perfectionist who can never be caught in an act with flaws, The cool girl; who did whatever she wanted without being judged. Amy was an understanding woman with a personality of pure gold, also known as the “it” girl; the woman every man dreamed about. By chapter 30, a surreal twist approaches the audience, as the presumably dead “Amazing Amy”, is fully living as none other than her true self, “Avenging Amy”.
I have never written a book review before so this is going to be little difficult. But I really would like to share my two cents. Does not marriage binds two people together for good or worse. Well, here these two are having normal setbacks like losing the job, money issues, family problems like illness or disability and does not agree with each other opinions. However, they don't want voice it to each other instead they think the other person should understand them somehow. It's confusing I know. Gone Girl is truly unbelievable. when you thought you know what's gonna happen next but it takes u-turn from nowhere. You are left hanging with no thread. Truly, this story is about people who are sociopath and narcissist. They are actually made for
Megan Leavey is a heartfelt story about the bond of a human and a dog in one of the most unlikely situations for a movie: warzones. One of the readings also highlights some of the interesting viewpoints regarding this movie.
When it came time to pick a stage of development, I chose the stage of middle childhood. The movie that best depicted this stage of development to me was the 1991 movie “My Girl”. In this movie, you see a 11-year-old girl named Vada Sultenfuss going through a lot of psychosocial and cognitive changes in her life. She has grown up without her mother due to instant death when being born and she blames herself for her mother’s passing. Her dad is very absent in the upbringing of Vada, as he focuses most of his time and energy into his work as a mortician. Vada is surrounded by death due to the fact that they live in the house where her father constructs his business which is why her view on death is demented. When her dad becomes involved
Nick Dunne returns home to find Amy, his wife, missing the day of their fifth anniversary; her disappearance receives heavy press coverage due to the popular books written by her parents for which she was an inspiration. Police and Detective Rhonda Boney conduct a forensic analysis after walking through their home where remnants of bloodstains were found, leading to the conclusion of her homicide. After five years of mostly phony wedded bliss nick is the primary suspect of her disappearance.
Beginning of the film, the director cites the Bible passage into, and the words are indeed spiritual in some way throughout the whole movie.
The book girl interrupted by Susanna Kaysen is a memoir of her time in the mentors back in the 1970s. During this time Susanna discusses every new thing she's learned, like the differences between this world, the one in a mental facility, in the world she is still considered normal. The most important thing Susanna learned was that only you can truly ever heal yourself.
Both Nolan and Gillian, take the same approach by creating fearful anticipation for the responders by portraying their text through unreliable characters. In Gone Girl, Flynn uses double narration as a means to translate the unreliability of the Nick and Amy. This first-person narration allows the reader to understand the character's emotions and reactions to events. Amy and Nick 'duel' back and forth in the sense that the chapters alternate between their points of view by slowly revealing information that has been hidden or omitted. However, over time the readers discover that the initial situation is not an accurate representation of what occurs. For example, diary Amy who is nothing like the real Amy feeds the readers false information about Nick that implicates him. This
Is there beauty in death? The loss of a child is a tragedy that no parent ever wants to experience. In the film Collateral Beauty, a grief-stricken father named Howard Inlet, played by Will Smith, learns how to cope with death and heartbreak from the loss of his daughter after writing letters to the universe. In these letters, Howard addresses his anger to love, death, and time, and they appear to Howard in human form to help him cope with his daughter’s death. As Howard begins to neglect life and all of his responsibilities, the interchangeable love-death-time triangle teaches Howard not to give up on his will to live, to love, and to interact with other people (Gleiser). Within the meaning of collateral beauty, an individual learns how to reinvent oneself and how to grow from the loss of a loved one. In this 2016 American drama film, director David Frankel excelled in delivering a definitive yet
Carrie is bullied by everybody in her senior class at Batesville High School, her mother Margret White (Piper Laurie) a nut for the religion. Carrie Whites life isn't perfect, it's sad you feel for her. As Brian De Palma has clearly pointed out in his wondeful masterpiece of horror as well as drama. Something which is rare in the horror genre, this film has the perfect mix of everything in it. Great acting, beautiful music done by Pino Donaggino, intense sequences of events that take us down a rabbit hole of emotions. Making the ending of the movie something you'll always remember. Casting was amazing with Sissy Spacek, Nancy Allen, P.J. Soles, Amy Irving, Piper Laurie and John Travolta all giving a once in a lifetime performance.
Although she had been in a minorly abusive relationship, her reaction to the situation, and her form of revenge is not within the realm of normal human behavior. It can be argued that Amy is a psychopath, for creating such a meticulous string of false evidence, changing her own identity, and contemplating suicide. Throughout this, however, she still functions normally, and even makes friendly relationships along the way. Prior to her “murder,” Amy befriended a neighbor, and filled her with stories of Nick’s abuse, and even telling her that she was “pregnant,” so that when the story got out, she would speak on her behalf. Then, while undercover, Amy became friends with the people she lived near, ensuring some sort of companionship during her times as “Nancy” rather than Amy. In the beginning of the novel, Amy was seen as the victim, being emotionally torn apart by her husband, as if she were a puppet, but by the end of the novel, Flynn made it obvious that "Amy clearly isn 't a puppet on a string. She 's the puppet master (149)." She believed that “ The bigger the lie, the more they believe it (115).” Amy was extremely likeable and extroverted, regardless of her actions, making her the perfect example of