Gone Girl Directed By David Flecher - 2049 Words

The main purpose of media is to provide entertainment; however media in its many forms can also be used to persuade, inform and advice. Hence media can be very powerful, affecting and influencing its viewers. Gone Girl directed by David Flecher is a story that revolves around a feminist sociopath married to a misogynist, whose lives depict a constant battle for power resulting in the most twisted marriage conceivable. It is a movie that forces it s audience to pick apart the gender dynamics. The common question running though the viewers minds is is this feminism at its extreme or a sexist portrayal of a crazy woman?. The story is a mixture of both,communicated in a thrilling and nerve wrecking manner, for Amy, the wife, sets up her†¦show more content†¦It takes us back to the day Amy met Nick at a party, their meet-cute and the beginning of their romance, a very personal piece of information, followed by other flash backs of their blossoming romance leading up to the ir marriage. This is her play on the interpretive theory of communication. For at the heart of interpretive ontology is the belief that the individual is able to socially construct his/her world through the use of communicative interaction guided by three unrelated goals: explanation, prediction and control (Miller,2005). Hence Amy Dunne explains her life using entries from her diary, the source of her communicative interaction with fellow characters and the audience, painting the picture of a put-upon and devoted wife, who gave up her ideal life for her husband, moving to his small hometown and committing her life savings to him so he could care for his ailing parents and open a bar, thus luring the audience into a false sense of security. Hence, Gone Girl poses the question, can genuine expressions of sympathy or solidarity with victims ever happen without being infected by the politicised, media-enabled cult of victim hood ? (The New Yorker, 2014). For it is Amy we begin to root for, not because of the numerous episodes of Criminal Minds or Law and Order that the global