Gone Girl (2014)

"Nick" (Ben Affleck) is seemingly happily married to the gorgeous and witty "Amy" (Rosamund Pike) until he comes home one evening and finds a smashed table and no wife. The cops turn up with "Boney" (Kim Dickens) and "Gilpin" (Patrick Fugit) soon smelling a rat. Together with her parents, they do all the usual publicity stuff but to no avail. Then the police start to wonder if he's telling the truth, and that suspicion is only heightened when they discover some deliberately left breadcrumbs that begin to suggest that he is a bit of a cheating brute and…

An excellent film, which never leaves us comfortable and where nothing is as it seems. This is one of those films that can unnerve and exasperate us, but that we love to watch. In fact, I don't remember seeing many films where the main character deserved my hatred. I don't want to, and I won't reveal what happens in this film, but it's one of those where appearances can be deceiving and where things aren't what they seem. The action focuses on the disappearance of a woman and her husband's efforts to find her. To our eyes, it's obvious that he really…

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