An It Couple whose mythical love story implodes on their anniversary: Is this the plotline of Gone Girl, which turns 10 on Oct. 3rd, or the latest installment of the Bennifer saga? It’s both.
Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher and adapted by Gillian Flynn from her 2012 bestseller of the same name that changed publishing and launched a thousand imitations, follows the perfectly blonde magazine columnist Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike), who disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary to Nice Guy™ Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck).
Amy finds out Nick has been cheating with one of his college students, played by Emily Ratajkowski, fresh off the “Blurred Lines” video… Pardon me, I just had a flashback to the mid-aughts when we tried to make Robin Thicke happen. Where was I? Oh right, instead of asking for a divorce or trying to make it work, Amy is hellbent on revenge and frames Nick for her murder, while she drives off into the anonymous middle American sunset, gorging herself on the junk food she wouldn’t let herself consume while reciting the infamous “Cool Girl screed.” You know how it goes: The Cool Girl is up for anything and pretends to like everything her male love interest likes, all while remaining generically hot.
