gone girl : the anti-marriage agenda
gone girl is my kind of story. it peeled piece after piece, layer after layer the masks surrounding a seemingly perfect marriage of a seemingly perfect couple until there is nothing left but a black hole of sadness. in fact, this latest piece from director david fincher should be a required viewing for those who are planning to get married, and for those who equate marriage with nirvana. it's the antithesis to all those fairy tales and their "and they lived happily ever after" endings that plagued our childhood and forever damaged our perception of love, romance and marriage. in short, it's the perfect propaganda that the government should use to discourage people from getting married, and therefore help curtail population explosion and solve the problems that go along with it: overcrowding, pollution, traffic, congestion. non-sequitur, i know. sorry! the opening scene was divine: showing the back head of a blond woman as her husband wondered what was inside...