Weekly Film analysis-Gone Girl


Weekly Film analysis-Gone Girl.
Gone Girl is a 2014 American psychological thriller film directed by David Fincher and written by Gillian Flynn, based on her 2012 novel.it was received well critically and was a commercial success, grossing $369 million, making it the highest-grossing film by Fincher.

In the opening scene of Gone Girl we see a close up followed along with a voice over that link together, the narrative voice we hear uses juxtaposition ,”when I think of my head I think of cracking her lovely skull”. Additionally, the close-up shows the character Nick touching Amy’s hair he is shown to be tender, however this is completely opposing the ideas we get from the voiceover.  The fact that it is a non-diegetic sound leaves the audience in the dark to what kind of relationship they have The soundtrack starts playing for the same effect it also links to the story; it has a chilling effect which could foreshadow what is to come. This allows the audience to establish that it is a thriller as it sounds creepy and chilling. Within this scene the close-up runs through the whole time, there is a point where Amy looks up which presents her as vulnerable. Furthermore the background is blurred out throughout the whole scene so the audience only focuses on the strange relationship, this gets the audience questioning what is this relationship.
In the scene of the proposal the theme of dishonesty is ,Amy is being asked questions about her relationship, although the lighting is dark ,the whole table his lit by one single small light in the middle, as she is talking about how “magical” Nick is could signify that she is in the dark about her true relationship with him and is not being truthful as we already know she is pretending to be a “cool girl” and Nick doesn’t actually know let alone like who she really is. Near the end of this scene there is a immediate cut to a custody sweet where Nick is being swabbed for DNA, this almost seems like the truth being exposed gradually. Nevertheless, its hard to know what the character Nick knows or what his character is like as so little is revealed.

 In conclusion, Gone Girl has used many technical elements and micro features to make the film as thrilling as possible.

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