I have watched these two movies on Netflix. Mind digging you know...
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GONE GIRL
From the past to the present, the film springs the story from Nick or Amy's direct perspectives. It can be difficult to follow and the visual style cannot be modified to reflect the time at the Memento. The number of days after Amy was gone missing is monitored by titling and augmented by voice-over. It is a significant instrument that is appropriately sparingly used to contrast what the narrator feels while its external presence implies the opposite. Again, it is about the show. The point, implicitly and sometimes explicitly, that Gone Girl repeats over and over is that truth alone is not adequate — if appropriate at all.
Writing teacher Nick Dunne comes home to find his wife Amy lost on her fifth marriage anniversary. Their death is mentioned by the media, as Amy was an inspiration for the famous children's books of her parents, Amazing Amy. Detective Rhonda Boney discovers poorly disguised signs of a house war. Nick, whose apathy is understood by the media as a sociopath, is also stirred by doubts in his twin sister Margo.
Flashbacks reveal how the first encounter was between Amy and Nick. Later on, Amy admitted to Nick that the ideal version of Amazing Amy consists of the actual mistakes of Amy. They both lost their jobs and moved from New York City to Nick's home village of North Carthage, Missouri. Their marriage disintegrated over time. Andie, one of his students started to fool Amy as Amy became madder and madder at Nick, for moving with him to Missouri, after having enjoyed her life in New York City.
Cleaned blood stains are identified by forensic examination of the house suggesting a likely kill. Boney finds proof of financial problems, marital conflicts, and the ability of Amy to buy a weapon recently. Medical sources suggest Amy is pregnant and Nick refuses to know it. Amy and Nick played hunting games for gems at every wedding anniversary, including a diary highlighting Amy's increasing loneliness and culminating in the fear that Nick will kill her. The year hints that she will buy a delicate piece on her card.
Amy has proven to be alive and good, hiding in a camp in the Ozarks. After discovering Nick's situation, she drew up an intricate plan to punish him by framing him for her assassination and making his reason look monetary. She made a long diary that was right in early entries, but later became wrongly recorded on the violence in the woman's wife and Nick's growing fear. She became a pregnant neighbor, told her false Nick temper stories, and stole her urine to the fake results of pregnancy, all while hiding Nick's friendship. In the keys to the treasure hunt for the investigators, she planted corroborative proof of Nick's guilt. She even splashed and wiped her blood haphazardly in the kitchen. She expected that, following his arrest, Nick would have been tried and executed for her murder.
Nick takes the plan from Amy and persuades Margo to be innocent. He travels to New York and meets the prosecutor, Tanner Bolt, who represents men accused of murdering women. Nick meets Amy's ex-boyfriend Tommy O'Hara too who claims Amy had wrongly accused him of rape and planted evidence in his house and forced him to register as a sex offender to escape imprisonment. Nick confronted another former acquaintance, the rich Desi Collings, against whom Amy had already lodged a restraining order.
She calls Desi for help as Amy's neighbors on a campground rob her of their earnings, telling her that she has fled the violence of Nick. In his lake house, Desi agrees to hide her. On a talk show, Nick, following the fact that Andie revealed his dealings at a press conference, professed his innocence and apologized for his faults as a husband, in the hope that Amy will laugh. The show appears before Nick was arrested for assassination, just before the treasure hunt. His success, however, reactivates Amy's feelings and changes her plans. She uses Desi tracking cameras to prove that Desi abducted and raped her. She seduced Desi, killed him with the box cutter and cleared Nick of suspicion, and returned home soaked in his blood.
If Boney investigates her story in the cracks, Amy chastens her as inept. Boney is pulled back down by the FBI with Amy. Amy reveals the truth to Nick, accepts the assassination of Desi, claiming that that the man she saw asking for her return on TV is the man she wanted to get him back. Nick has no proof of her culpability, but Boney, Bolt, and Margo do.
Nick wants to abandon Amy, but she tells that she's pregnant and has been inseminating herself in a fertility clinic with Nick's sperm. Nick violently reacts to Amy's argument that they stay together but that she is responsible for the boy. He agreed unwillingly to stay with Amy, despite Margo's objections. On the television, the "happy couple say they expect a boy.
At the end of the film, the viewer has an unsettling feeling of being too close to our reality, the mob mentality, the sensational tabloid media, and the fake moral high grounds portrayed in the film.
GERALD'S GAME
In Fairhope, Alabama, Jessie and Gerald come for some time to an isolated lake home. Jessie feeds a stray dog outside as Gerald takes Viagra, but when he reenters the house the door is unlocked. Jessie transforms into a new slip, places the tag on the bedside rack, and makes sexy poses. Gerald takes another Viagra and lies on the same shelf as his bottle of wine. He confines Jessie on either wrist locked to his bedside posts with a pair of handcuffs; she appears a little shocked but continues. He continues to make a stranger fantasy of rape and advises him to yell for help, as nobody listens. He answers, "What if I won't?" After a heated confrontation, in which he accuses her that he doesn't even want to restart the relationship, Gerald dies of a heart attack and falls on the floor, leaving Jessie wrapped up in her handcuffed.
Pass a couple of hours. Jessie attempts to frighten her, but she mats a chunk from Gerald's arm and feeds her. The dog enters through open doors. Gerald gets up and starts talking, referring to the skin and musculature missing on his arm, but Jessie sees that his body stays on the ground. He taunts Jessie about the truths and erectile dysfunction of their troubled marriage. He then tells her that she has spent hours and she is starting to experience dehydration and fatigue. Jessie draws a hand out of a banquette and breaks out miraculously. But then she turns and says to himself who is still trapped that it is easy to escape. She is still trapped. Gerald and the optimistic Jessie say things about themselves and Gerald that she never dared to recognize. They lead her to recall the glass of water over the bed she could reach but could not put to her lips. The hallucinations remind her of the day she placed it on the shelf and rolls it into a soda to hit the bath.
Jessie sleeps, wakes up into the darkness, and sees a tall, distorted dark figure showing a bag of different bones and trinkets. But Gerald appears to say that death is waiting to take her. She closes her eyes and says, "You're not real." Gerald starts calling Jessie "Mouse" which disturbs her. This triggers a flashback of her father Tom, who affectionately called her the mouse, sitting down on her lap while he masturbates about her at the age of twelve, watching both a solar eclipse and when Jessie's vision of herself loses sensation inside her arm Gerald and Jessie taunts her that they have never recovered from attacks and that they marry a man like their father.
He teases Jessie about the disfigured man she had met, whom he calls "the man-made of moonlight" and points to the bloody footprint because of Jessie's suspects.
Jessie recalls her hand breaking off the night of an attack when her mother asked her about the eclipse after she squeezed so hard a bottle. The adult Jessie takes down the glass of water and slices her wrist so that she pulls the skin back and lets her blind hand fall through the cuff. She pulls the bed on her key and releases her other hand. She drinks water and ties her wrist and then loses blood and exhaustion on the floor. When she wakes, at the end of the lobby the "man-made of moonlight" gives him her marriage ring for his bag of drinks. She's going to make it to her car, and she's driving away, but the guy is looking back. The car crashes into a tree, but people come out of a neighboring home.
Jessie writes a letter six months later, attempting to compose with her injured hand, to herself, a 12-year-old. Voices and scenes explain how she believed amnesia had been stuck during the entire ordeal while preventing painful questions. She used a life insurance company from Gerald to launch a foundation for sexual abuse victims. But every night the "man-made of moonlight" as she falls asleep, still appears before her. Her marriage ring has never been found at home. From the news, she was informed about a serial killer with acromegaly who digs crypts, steals bones and jewels, eats the faces of men's bodies. That is also why he didn't harm Jessie in the house.
Jessie comes to court when the lunar man is condemned and calls his attention. Before leaving the building, he cites what she said, suggesting that he was at the time. She says, "You're so much smaller than I remember" and sees the face of Gerald and Tom where his face is and triumphantly steps out into the street and the sunlight glows on her.
I didn't like the story of this movie, but I love the actors. I don't know, maybe because I don't like "child abuse movies" even it is just a movie. The thing is, as a watcher, you could get some lessons on what you are watching.
