Film/TV Oct 1, 2014 at 4:00 am

David Fincher's Latest Is About Something More Meaningful Than Ben Affleck's Creepy Smile

Rosamund Pike’s Amy is intelligent and self-pitying and aloof and thrilling.

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How is Reznor's score?
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The book itself served up a heaping helping of misogyny. In fact, it hated both genders with relative indiscretion.
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Wow, that last paragraph was really...something. Starting off with petty ad-hominems and describing a world almost completely divorced from objective reality.

No, not "everyone" is frightened of the world (which, with typical dips, has been mostly improving for the last 60 years) or thinks that "the bad times are here to stay."

This is like reading the point of view of a religious fundamentalist. Or a young writer, struggling madly to make something resembling a point, no matter what he has to invent to do so.
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"The media is a shimmering cloud of guppies brainlessly chasing a flashlight around." Wow, a great image.
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“This is a portrait of a marriage in modern America, where the middle class is being choked out by financial forces beyond its understanding”



They’re middle class? She has a million dollar trust fund, they live in a McMansion and drive $50,000 cars. Did you see the same movie?
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The score is light and airy, kind of understated. I was expecting a little more, I felt like his Social Network score elevated the movie 2-3 entire points out of 10. Gone Girl's score is pretty perfect, if just a little too quiet. I'm listening to it while I read the book. I'm enjoying it very much. It's streaming free on NPR.com.
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YO, Paul, your last paragraph is excellent writing and right on analysis. Credit where credit is due. I love Fincher, described I think in the NY Times review of this one as the dark lord of cinema.
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What the fuck? Priced out???? She owned that brownstone and had a trust fund?? Middle class?? They lived in a fucking mansion!!! Fuck.
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They aren't "priced out" of NYC. Amy's millionaire parents mishandle their fortune and are forced to borrow heavily from her trust fund, and Amy and Nick move to a McMansion in Missouri to care for Nick's dying mother. So no, they aren't "middle class". Neither is Desi. Neither is Tanner Bolt. There are more wealthy characters in this story than middle class ones.
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Sorry Paul. I respect your perspective, but the plot twists DO matter because they render GG thoroughly implausible, thus also making unbelievable. Fincher tries to meld at least two disparate films: crime drama and media satire. Unfortunately, GG isn't credible enough to work as the former, and not outrageous enough to work as the latter. The result is a nice, but purely stylistic achievement, with a hollow core.

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