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

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People are even talking Oscar

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For the actress/actors, but not necessarily slam dunk for the movie. But the score was great. The movie was dark and intense. It might get consideration.

The part that you are missing is that the movie's style isn't meant to be a perfect crime novel/story where you can't pick anything apart.
There isn't enough time for that, and that's what the book is far.
It's very post-modern where it's self-aware enough to ask you to take it at face value.

The FBI had no reason to probe further. The rape kit came back positive. So, her story about getting kidnapped was somewhat corroborated.
Plus, they weren't trying to prove she set up her husband, like the local detective was. And once she called the detective out for screwing up the case, it became solely up to the FBI, which bought her crap hook line and sinker.

The point of the movie wasn't to make a nice big bow on that scene for you. The blood being left on her is a further illustration of that. Of course it's preposterous and implausible.... that's the point. Fincher is making sure to throw the "it's just a movie" in your face. The movie wasn't about solving the case. It was about the game she was playing... and Nick knew it was a game... and that she was making him play it again... And the deep shite that he's in with her. That's why it was great.

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the police and FBI's handling of the kidnapping/rape/escape etc. I loved the "thorough" interview Pike's character got by an audience of agents while she sat on a stool covered in blood. Affleck brings up logic and it's dismissed. I find it very hard to believe the FBI are that incompetent as to not find the inconsistencies in this nutjob's story.

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What inconsistencies were there to find? A kidnapping and rape victim (with evidence to prove as much) kills her abductor/rapist and returns to her loving, wrongly accused husband. Why would they investigate further? It's an open and shut case. Case closed. Happily ever after, as far as the FBI is concerned.

Only Boney, Nick, Margot, and Tyler Perry knew the real truth.