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Our View: Fix the 'free speech zone' ... Teaching the First Amendment ... Calendar: Saturday, Oct. 25 ... Our View: Fix the 'free speech zone' ... Teaching the First Amendment ... ON SCREEN 'Gone Girl' is a dark, twisting winner By Chris Honoré for Revels DailyTidings.com By Chris Honoré for Revels Posted Oct. 9, 2014 @ 12:01 am By Chris Honoré for Revels Posted Oct. 9, 2014 @ 12:01 am » Social News “Gone Girl”opens with Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck), recently married to Amy Elliot Dunne (Rosamund Pike), stroking her silky blond hair and wondering what she is really thinking. It is a question that will haunt him throughout the film. But initially, through flashbacks, it is revealed that Nick and Amy, happily ensconced in Manhattan, lived the tony life of those who are comfortably affluent. Their courtship was intense, and they quickly merged their lives and feel that intense surge of newlywed happiness derived from having found one another and believing that what they experience at that moment will frame their lives forever. But quickly the world intrudes as does change. The Great Recession is suddenly upon them, both lose their jobs as magazine writers, and Nick’s mother is dying of cancer. They decide to move to Nick’s hometown of Carthage, Missouri, where Nick can be close to his mother in her final days and they can ride out the downturn. But what was a golden five years of marriage has begun to curdle. Nick has purchased a local Carthage bar (called the Bar) with his twin sister, Margo (Carrie Coon), and mid-morning on the day of his fifth anniversary, Nick is sitting at his bar being served an early shot of whiskey. Leaving the Bar, he goes home, and walks into their designer McMansion (they’re leasing) looking for Amy. The house is silent. She doesn’t answer. He goes from room to room, upstairs and down, and when he enters the family room off the kitchen, he encounters a disturbing scene: a glass table is shattered, chairs are over turned, and Amy is gone. Nick calls the police reporting not just that his wife was missing but implies that there’s been a home invasion. Two Carthage detectives arrive, Rhonda Boney (Kim Dickens) and Jim Gilpin (Patrick Fugit), and together, with Nick, they walk through the house as Det. Boney puts yellow posts-it on anything that looks suspicious. And so begins the first half of the film in which director David Fincher (“Se7en,” “Fight Club,” “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” “The Social Network,” “Zodiac” ) , begins to construct a sense of dread and suspicion. Nick seems incapable of acting appropriately, meaning he is judged by the police and the media to be detached, smiles for the cameras, and, of course, the two detectives increasingly focus on him as their prime suspect. Repeatedly, Nick insists he has no idea what happened to her. There are multiple layers to this thriller, and each is peeled back slowly while Nick seems an unreliable narrator when it comes to explaining the vagaries of his relationship with Amy. Over the five years of their marriage, on each anniversary, Amy has left a series of clues, carefully written and hidden for Nick to find. A treasure hunt of sorts, culminating in a gift. And though she is gone, the clues remain, and Nick finds first one (initially with the police), then others. However, the notes turn ominous and puzzling, and the film evolves from a where-is-Amy to a whodunit, meaning Nick is judged to be responsible for her disappearance and likely her death. Clearly, the scandal-driven media, a rapacious group, has already found him guilty, and soon the police will conclude the same thing, especially after finding Amy’s cleaned up blood (using Luminol) in the kitchen and her diary, discovered partially singed in a furnace. Amy reveals, reading from the pages of her journal in voice-over, that she feared Nick and what he might do to her. The twist arrives in the final scenes of act two, and “Gone Girl" morphs into an entirely different story. If you’ve read Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel, there will be no surprises. But if you are coming to this film fresh, the mid-point will stun. To say any more would risk depriving the reader of that moment. Know that Fincher is a master at constructing tension and anticipation as he closes one dark door before opening another. He’s working with a superb cast, major and minor, who deliver excellent performances to include the underrated Rosamund Pike.                 By Chris Honoré for Revels DailyTidings.com By Chris Honoré for Revels Posted Oct. 9, 2014 @ 12:01 am » Comment or view comments Reader Reaction » STAY INFORMED Email NewsLetter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. calendar Connect with DailyTidings.com Facebook Twitter RSS Back to top Reader Services Reader Services home Subscriptions Subscriber controls Contact us Submissions Photos Events Letters to the editor Corrections Alerts Email alerts RSS feeds Text Alerts Advertise Media Kit Home Products and services Ad rates Advertising contacts Mail Tribune Daily Tidings The Nickel Shop Our Valley Blogs Stay Informed Email newsletter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. 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