Sometimes is actually good to approach movie without any previous knowledge or concept what is all about: it gives you a chance to dive head on into something as gripping and compulsive watching as "Gone Girl" without being influenced by other opinions.
It is a slightly overlong psychological thriller that holds your attention to the end and honestly it has so many twists and turns that you might get vertigo while trying to figure it out and connect all the dots. Unexpectedly it gives a intriguing part to previously lightweight Ben Affleck as husband who report his wife missing and one of the pleasures of the movie is that it has no particularly good hero, almost everybody here is driven by personal ambition, greed and all sorts of vices. However, what I found the most fascinating is the way media is described here as very dangerous tool in shaping public opinion - everybody from journalists to brainwashed TV audiences is easily led by their dead serious assumptions, opinions and conclusions that naturally are changing from day to day. You can be sacrificial lamb and monster one day, just to be hailed as hero the very next morning. It might seems almost like a parody if you don't stop to think that this is the way people actually behave today in our time of Internet discussions and debates based on reading only titles and quick conclusions that have nothing to do with reality or even understanding what truth might be hidden between the lines. Fascinating.
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