Critical Analysis Of Gone Girl

When it comes to David Fincher’s adaption of Gillian Flynn’s novel, Gone Girl, it’s important to remember the famous quote, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” When I first watched the movie I experienced very odd emotions. For example, I went from wanting to find Amy’s “kidnapper”, to wanting her husband Nick Dunne prosecuted for her murder, to finally rooting her on for the hell she made him go through due to his infidelity.

From the beginning of the movie it’s a shown that Amy’s childhood was appropriated. Her parents had a successful children’s book series that turned once simple Amy Elliot into Amazing Amy. The problem with the real Amy and Amazing Amy was that, the real Amy was typically always one step behind her fictionalized

By then, Amy had met her soon-to-be husband, Nick. Nick had gone to the dinner party with Amy to celebrate her parent’s book release, the party was a staged engagement party for Amazing Amy, in which he posed as a reporter while she was being interviewed and asked her to marry him. Fast forward five years later and their marriage is falling apart. The recession left Nick who was once a successful writer for a men’s magazine jobless. Nick’s mother at the time was dying, and so he moved Amy and himself to rural Missouri to be able to take care of her. Included in her explanation of all the ways that Nick failed her as a husband, his cheating was the tipping point for her. Watching him take his much younger, once his student, mistress on the same date he took Amy on years prior set off her agenda in ruining his

Individuals who suffer from BPD have problems being able to regulate emotions and thoughts, are impulsive with their behaviors, and tend to carry unstable relationships with other people. Those who suffer from BPD may also experience suicidal behaviors and completed suicides. In the movie Amy had a calendar with sticky notes, two of which were marked “Kill self?” on different dates. And although she didn’t go through with either one, the possibility was very much in her realm of doing so. Another symptom of hers that ties in well with her BPD, is Narcissistic Personality Disorder. One of the symptoms from this disorder should be obvious, a need for admiration which has to be evident to the individual from their spouse. They tend to lack empathy for others and are often described as self-centered and manipulative. Amy over time developed a maladaptive style of functioning in the world that ultimately caused her to not only harm herself but also other people as well. Due to her NPD, she had a powerful sense of entitlement, meaning she was able to rationalize each action she made, even as misconstrued as it may be to the average person, and act as if it was perfectly normal. Amy’s deceitfulness was very apparent throughout the movie. From every calculated note left for the annual scavenger hunt, to the crime scene she orchestrated, down to every action she took to