‘Gone Girl” going

 

‘Gone Girl” going

Prime Video, Netflix and Disney Hotstar are OTT streaming giants in India. They have a huge collection of movies and web series. This collection includes the content in different languages across the globe apart from English and other Indian languages.

I recently read in internet that Prime Video is taking out some movies from its OTT platform. Actually, this is what is done by these companies; they remove some films or web series at one time. And  after sometime they are again added and made available to viewers as per their streaming policy.

One of the movies going out from Prime Video is ‘Gone Girl’. This film was released way back almost a decade ago in 2014. It is one of the finest films from the genre of thriller, rather it could be considered as the psychological thriller. Because the main characters viz. Amy Elliot Dunne (played by gorgeous actress Rosamund Pike) and Nick Dunne (acted by very talented Ben Affleck) seem to be psychopaths and sociopaths on several occasions during the movies. The film starts with Nick realising that his beautiful wife has gone missing on one fine day. He files the complaint with police and Detective Rhonda Boney (played by actress Kim Dickens) starts investigating the case with her team.

Since the beginning till end Gone Girl is full of twists and suspense taking new turns. David Fincher (David Andrew Leo Fincher) has directed the film in his peculiar style and has done full justice to his favourite genre i.e. psychological thriller. David Flincher has directed other well known thrillers like Seven (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman), The Game (Micheal Douglas and Sean Penn), Fight Club (Brad Pitt and Edward Norton), The Panic Room (Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart), Zodiac (Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr.) among others. Each of these movies is a superb treat to the movie lovers, especially those who love watching thrillers.

In the beginning one simply gets convinced that Nick (Ben Affleck) might have really murdered his wife. But, as the story moves on and film goes ahead, the viewers get jerks and shocks. With every new scene one is compelled to think what would happen next and what would be the ultimate truth at the end.

Ben Affleck and  Rosamund Pike have given fabulous performance in the film. Ben Affleck is active in Hollywood since 1980s. He is also a screenplay writer. Some of his prominent films are – ‘Good Will Hunting’, ‘Shakespeare in Love’, ‘Armageddon’, ‘Pearl Harbor’ snd ‘The Sum of All Fears’. He has also appeared in some television series and music videos. Ben Affleck certainly is one of the talented actors and multi flaired personalities from Hollywood.  He has won Academy as well as Golden Globe and British  Academy of Film and Television Arts) BAFTA Awards for his fantastic work in entertainment industry in different capacities.

Rosamund Pike is an English actress. She was born in 1979   in Hammersmith in West London. She has acted in films such as ‘Johnny English Reborn’, ‘Wrath of the Titans’, ‘Jack Reacher”, The World’s End, etc. She was nominated for Academy Awards (Oscars) in the category of Best Actress for her convincing acting in ‘Gone Girl’.

Judged by any measure ‘Gone Girl’ is a fabulous film and keeps viewers sticked to their seats. It is a film which celebrates the strong natured and firm women. Worldwide most of the societies are patriarchal which portray women as weaker sex compared to their male counterparts. But, ‘Gone Girl’ tells us that even women can be equally stronger and at some times could go to any extremes to get the things done as per their wish. This is one of the reasons that even though Amy has grey shades to her character in ‘Gone Girl’ her performance and role attracts more attention. And as a film viewer one starts liking it. We can say that ‘Gone Girl’ gives a message to everyone that ‘Do not underestimate women’.

‘Gone Girl’ is going from Prime Video, hence one should watch it before it is removed by it.