Gone Girl (Week 7)

November 6, 2015

Oh my goodness, Amy is gooooood. Too good, that it's almost disturbing. No, it is disturbing. She's incredibly smart and talented, despite what people have always told her.

Amy set Nick up, crafted out this entire situation, knowing exactly each and every move Nick would make. That's why he stumbled so much. She created the "perfect murder", totally untraceable to Amy and entirely blamable upon Nick. Amy wasn't kidnapped; she simply left and left behind a questionable situation.

The diary? Totally made up. Well, not 100%. Most details are actually true, but her personality in the diary is fictitious. She wanted to make herself look just like a victim would, scared and sad. She wanted to show how much she actually loved Nick, and how much she tried to get his attention. She discombobulated the living room in the exact way Nick would, even down to mopping the blood they found in the kitchen that Nick would've hastily mopped. Yes, there was blood found in the kitchen by the detectives. How'd Amy do it? She took a box cutter knife to her wrist and cut down, just enough to bleed a lot but not deep enough to have to go to the hospital. Sickening, but smart. I cringed so hard at the detail she gave about her cutting herself. She purchased a purposely unnoticeable car so no one would bother to suspect it, and drove all the way down to Missouri Ozarks, a long stretch of cabins and motels far down from where they lived. She stopped at a gas station to cut her long blonde locks and dyed it brown, making her virtually unrecognizable. She then proceeded to rent a room in a motel and plans to watch her "perfect murder" plan unfold over the media.

I think calling Amy crazy is a bit of an understatement. I understand that she is bitter after 5 years of her trying to please Nick and make him happy when he would just ignore her and then even go as far as to cheating, with one of his own students. Yes, she also knew that he was cheating on her. She caught them one time as she was trying to surprise him at work, and continue to follow them day after day. Her anniversary treasure hunt led Nick to every single place that he cheated on her with Andie. The big surprise at the end was finding out that Amy was pregnant with a set of masochistic dolls that showcased a male doll dominating a distressed mother doll and her baby in hand. However... is it just me or is setting Nick up for the murder of his own wife just a little over the top?

Maybe I'm the crazy one.