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When Fincher is good, time is like butter. When he stumbles, as he does here and in, oh Jesus, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, it's like every one of his fabled 50+ takes has been included in the final product. By the time Neil Patrick Harris shows up as a jilted ex-lover (of Amy's), leading to an extended interlude in one of Fincher's modern, frictionless environments, I started to feel as abducted and trapped as Amy herself. Flashbacks, unreliable narrators, a mystery, a skewed morality, the fatale-ist of femmes, Gone Girl aspires to high noir but lands mostly as high melodrama. It's Douglas Sirk's Mildred Pierce, except that sounds awesome. Gone Girl is awesome, too, in the way of the world's most beautiful air bladder. Everything about it is perfect, not a hair out of place, and at the end of the day, it's just an organ for collecting nothing. I like trash, I like genre films and twisty tales like this variation on Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven should've directed Gone Girl as well). And I still like David Fincher a lot, even after this. He makes as much as anyone possibly could out of Gone Girl, but ultimately you could've told me that people are complicated and marriage is a lie of convenience in fewer than the four days it took Fincher. Quintessence of dust, indeed. -
Gone Girl is the prototypical human-hating hipster model of too-smart, too-cool meta-cinema.
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I can see why the pretentious, "the leftovers"-loving hipsters are hopping on the Gigli Girl bandwagon.
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