Gone Girl
2014 · Directed by David Fincher
Original language: English
- mystery
- thriller
- drama
The story
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
What it’s like
Cool, controlled surfaces doing a lot of quiet work: suburban rooms in flat, sickly fluorescent light, cold blue exteriors, and David Fincher's precise, almost surgical framing that lets a glance hang for a beat too long. The palette is muted and clinical, broken by bursts of hot red and lurid television glare when the cable-news machinery takes over. Fincher's camera glides and locks off with unnerving smoothness, and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's pulsing, dissonant electronic score keeps the unease humming under every scene, sometimes swelling into outright dread. The vibe is sharp, glossy and cynical, a poisonous kind of cool that suits a late night alone or a watch with someone you want to argue with afterward. Pacing is brisk and deliberately manipulative, with twists landing like cold water and a sustained chill in the air. Emotionally it is detached and mocking, following a stiff, withholding marriage through public scrutiny and private performance, and the people stay slippery rather than warm. Violence is occasional and sharp, with brief, startling moments of bloodshed and some sexual content, but it stays more menacing than gory. It is for viewers who relish icy suspense, media satire and marriages turned into battlegrounds.
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