The movie Gone Girl is a 2014 psychological thriller that focuses on the institution of marriage, shading light into the perception of marriage versus the realities of marriage. The director of the movie, David Fincher, incorporates several literary ingredients to create a dynamic thriller that tells the story of a marriage under siege, filled with pretense, betrayal, and manipulation. The movie puts together relatable themes, metaphors and the director maximizes on character development to tell a story of a love gone sour.
The movie Gone girl is rich in the development of themes. The key themes in the movie: perception, manipulation, lies, revenge are marriage are brought to life through the lead characters Amy and Nick. These two consummate their love by getting married in the hope that their marriage unlike others before theirs would work. However, things go east, and the marriage that had begun as the epitome of perfection becomes something akin to a fatal attraction. The latter never ends well.