Gone for Good

Just finished watching Gone Girl by David Fincher. One heck of a film, this one. Keeps you tied to the edge of your seat till the very end. It's a dark film, to say the least. Shows you stuff that the reality t.v. won't let you see.
It's about a married couple who have become, over the years, bored of each other. The husband uses the wife for sex exclusively and won't give in to her demands of bearing a baby. The wife is sick of being two timed by her husband and won't sit passively watching. So, she hatches up one incredible plot to teach the cheating husband one unforgettable lesson. She goes missing. And creates a scenario under which her clueless man can be framed for her murder. The wife's name is Amy Dunne (played by Rosamund Pike) and the man is Nick Dunne (played by Ben Affleck).
I will reserve my judgements for the female protagonist of the film but I can safely say that Amy Dunne is quite simply one of the most intriguing female characters ever seen on the celluloid. She is scary, intimidating, clever and ruthless. She leaves someone like Ben Affleck looking like a sheep caught by a wolf. And this goes to Affleck's credit that not for a moment do we see the megastar in him that he really is. He looks effortlessly like your next-door newly married bloke.
Not only does the film show how complex married life can be but also the truth behind the false portrayals of high profile cases of crime that we see on t.v. It exemplifies the moral from the Greek drama Medea which said, "Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned."
Truly a gem!