Gone girl
I had known about the film for quite some time, but wasn't really planning on seeing it any time soon. Then one night it just dawned on me to rent it and see it and... well I feel glad that I did!!
I don't know, whether you have heard other people talk about this film before; if you have, I'm guessing that most of them had something in common! They were enthused, surprised, almost breathless and promised two and half hours of an irresistible uproar, an inner turbulence that movies rarely cause.
What really strikes me as unprecedented is that I don't know how I should exactly describe the feelings that were generated in me while and after watching the film: it's not that it was a hilarious comedy, a heart-breaking drama, a nerve-racking thriller or that it got across a very powerful political or social message. It was just strong, very strong, formidable, turbulent, tumultuous, unexpected, shocking even.
It wasn't lyrical, it wasn't poetic, it was raw. It spoke of things that film-makers do not usually touch but it had also nothing to do with films that out dark secrets (or evident truths) of our world and although interesting, don't manage to cause a commotion.
I will only mention the "cool girl" monologue of the Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike, who played a woman we rarely see on screen: likable and cool but hateful and crazy at the same time, one that you instinctively adore, then doubt, then hate and then identify with.
She says men want "cool" girls, in other worlds, girls that fit their contrasting fantasies, which are, to be honest, not essentially different than our own: they like the innocent, inexperienced girl, who can be a protagonist in their own porn, the girl who eats pizza and drinks beer with them but "remains a size two", the one who laughs at their obscene jokes and gets along with their buddies, but is educated, sharp, delicate and keeps etiquettes. The one who never asks, but gives, without being dependent and powerless. The one who is strong but doesn't threaten their manhood.
Gone girl said she enjoyed being all that, in a sense, as long is he (her man) fed her fantasies back. During the time that he was trying to conquer and then secure her, he was willing to try, he was willing to be that romantic, sophisticated guy, who was however as strong and assertive as Rambo and as handsome as Adonis. Then "he got lazy", he wasn't the man "she had agreed to marry" anymore; and when she stopped being a "cool" girl in response, because she didn't want to love him "unconditionally" he sought comfort in a new, younger and "bouncier" "cool" girl. She said she could have left him then and there, but then he would be happier than ever, whilst she would be drowning in her own misery.
So... Gone girl came to be and both of them got what they deserved in the end.
If you're looking for something to revive you, to poke you, to thrust you forward, then do watch it. If nothing else, it will give you loads of food for thought and endless excuses for in-depth discussions on what is darkest yet juiciest in our lives.
What really strikes me as unprecedented is that I don't know how I should exactly describe the feelings that were generated in me while and after watching the film: it's not that it was a hilarious comedy, a heart-breaking drama, a nerve-racking thriller or that it got across a very powerful political or social message. It was just strong, very strong, formidable, turbulent, tumultuous, unexpected, shocking even.
It wasn't lyrical, it wasn't poetic, it was raw. It spoke of things that film-makers do not usually touch but it had also nothing to do with films that out dark secrets (or evident truths) of our world and although interesting, don't manage to cause a commotion.
I will only mention the "cool girl" monologue of the Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike, who played a woman we rarely see on screen: likable and cool but hateful and crazy at the same time, one that you instinctively adore, then doubt, then hate and then identify with.
She says men want "cool" girls, in other worlds, girls that fit their contrasting fantasies, which are, to be honest, not essentially different than our own: they like the innocent, inexperienced girl, who can be a protagonist in their own porn, the girl who eats pizza and drinks beer with them but "remains a size two", the one who laughs at their obscene jokes and gets along with their buddies, but is educated, sharp, delicate and keeps etiquettes. The one who never asks, but gives, without being dependent and powerless. The one who is strong but doesn't threaten their manhood.
Gone girl said she enjoyed being all that, in a sense, as long is he (her man) fed her fantasies back. During the time that he was trying to conquer and then secure her, he was willing to try, he was willing to be that romantic, sophisticated guy, who was however as strong and assertive as Rambo and as handsome as Adonis. Then "he got lazy", he wasn't the man "she had agreed to marry" anymore; and when she stopped being a "cool" girl in response, because she didn't want to love him "unconditionally" he sought comfort in a new, younger and "bouncier" "cool" girl. She said she could have left him then and there, but then he would be happier than ever, whilst she would be drowning in her own misery.
So... Gone girl came to be and both of them got what they deserved in the end.
If you're looking for something to revive you, to poke you, to thrust you forward, then do watch it. If nothing else, it will give you loads of food for thought and endless excuses for in-depth discussions on what is darkest yet juiciest in our lives.
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