re: Gone Girl, Official Thread (*Spoilers After Page 5*)

Yeah I think you're right. It was the evidence thing. You can't come out and accuse your "abducted" wife without evidence. It would make the public hate him again.

Here are some of the inconsistencies I was talking about (Some taken from Reddit):


-With so many cameras around his home, wouldn't NPH have an alibi for the morning of the abduction?


-Amy changes her story and claims that the rich guy forced his way into her home and kidnapped her. The old man that called Affleck about the cat was sitting at the front of his house - wouldn't he have seen this?


-Amy's entire plan rests solely on the fact that her husband will go to a secluded place to think about their marriage while she fakes the kidnapping. Considering that she knows her husband is cheating, and also think he's a massive frick up that seems like a huge risk


-NPH's house is covered in cameras. I'm willing to let it slide that there aren't any in the bedroom, but wouldn't they have shown her arriving a week after the kidnapping, and getting out completely fine? How bout her walking outside on the decking?


-When killing said rich guy, she slit this throat, not stabbed him violently ... she's slit his throat. Weren't her hands supposed to be tied up?


-Amy claims that she was hit over the head when kidnapped and lost - in the detective's words - "a life threatening amount of blood". She sticks to this story when the police and FBI are questioning her at the end (in fact her story hinges on it), yet not one person brings up the fact that there is no sign of a massive gash on her head. Considering that her husband is desperate to prove that she's a lying killer, you think he would mention it.

-At the end she says that Nick would have to take blame for stealing the credit cards and buying the stuff in the woodshed. Couldn't she just say that she bought him all that stuff for their anniversary since the clues she left led there?

-Affleck pointed it out, but "I think he may kill me" is a convenient ending line to the diary.