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Content review is a lot of fun, I even have a new YouTube channel I'm experimenting with dealing with "underdog" content review. Needless to say, it's a great pastime.
Between music, movie, book, or sports review, these are often highly opinionated and well researched. These are all about micro-examinations and revealing the statlines, hidden info, conspiracy theories, and reflective information that the common audience may have never noticed at first reveal, which is what makes content review so popular and dynamic.
Please be mindful of other people's opinions however and do not downplay works to the extent you're speaking in explicit incoherent banter that nobody cares about. Be dumb but not stupid.
Anywho, these reviews can be any length you want, I don't exactly moderate, I just look for whether or not content is in depth enough to really be considered a review so if I'll delete anything that doesn't fit the bill. But I'm usually pretty lenient and I guarantee that if you just put some thought into it, chances are I won't delete it.

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Amy Dunne - The Perfect Villain

2/19/19

I’m gonna talk about my favorite love story, Gone Girl, today, which is about Amy Dunne, a psychopath who frames her husband for murder because she got cheated on. Moral of the story: Women, don’t get married. Men, stay loyal.
It takes a lot to be called a villain without being given any superpowers, any over-the-top circumstances, any childhood trauma, if you become a villain from the moment you’re a child based off sheer evil, you’re a ‘perfect villain’. In the book “Gone Girl”, we find Amy Elliott Dunne as a goddess of pure evil. Deceitful, cunning, sharp, determined, calculated, disciplined, and most importantly, bat-shit crazy.
Mischief doesn’t do her justice, she is the devil, but she’s a smart devil; what she manages to do makes the audience sit back and think, “Holy shit, that was impressive. Psycho, but impressive.”
This book was a psychologist’s porn magazine. Juicy (sorry this is taking a weird direction) but really, every single decision from the closely-knit characters of “Gone Girl” could be traced back to some sort of psychological factor that causes them to act that way.
Desi Collins’s feelings for Amy just stem straight from the idea of the “high school sweetheart”, and the hopes for things to return to the way they once were.
Margo Dunne’s feelings for her brother come down to him being really the only family she’s got, considering her mother had died heartbreakingly and their father is on death’s door. She holds on to Nick knowing she can take care of him, and Nick leans on her hospitality since that’s psychologically the kind of guy he is, the one that leans on other people.
Detective Boney clearly bases the foundation of her search on the narrative of husbands killing their wives out of lustless love, so much so they arrest Nick before they’ve even found a body. They coerce him until he decides he needs a lawyer. Everything about the case was merely an assumption made against Nick, and not a single assumption for Amy. Funny when you’re “missing”, everybody acts like you were perfect.
Of course, Amy Dunne’s psychology clearly came from that fact. She’s the daughter of psychologists and a writer who understands how to “craft a story”. And she can craft a hell of a story, believe Nick.
She knows what the public loves, she knows what a detective loves, and of course, she knows what her husband loves.
Nick Dunne’s feelings are exactly like society’s. We want to lean on somebody. We don’t want to take initiative, we want somebody else to be that bold, and we follow the footsteps. We want and want. We take and take. He took Andy as his mistress because he wanted that gratification. He hired Tanner because he wanted that safety cushion. He wanted Amy dead so he could live.
Several times throughout the book, Nick’s hate for Amy grew three sizes that day she went missing.
The plot she schemes, the charade she puts on, the mask she wears, she’s both a villain and a wife to Nick, any man’s worst nightmare.
What makes her a perfect villain is simply that she wins. She gets what she wants in a way she didn’t even expect to get it.
Normally when the villain’s plot fails or falls through, they drudge up some soliloquy out their ass about how life isn’t fair and how they would’ve gotten away with it - Not Amazing Amy, she took the diamonds and ran.
Originally, she was going to kill herself. Drowning herself in the Mississippi to be exact and to symbolically drown her marriage. Somehow, in the midst of this dark, twisted, unprecedented outcome, Amy and Nick’s marriage somehow came back stronger than ever.
There’s actually a very vivid scene in the book that’s never fully displayed in the movie.
In the movie, Nick grabs Amy by the neck and throws her against the wall, to which Amy is seemingly unaffected and when asked by Nick why she would want this she replies, “That’s marriage,” which I found a very shallow answer and didn’t actually to the real Amy Dunne justice. This was really the only flaw I found with the Gone Girl movie, it was pretty much spot-on with the book.
In the book, Amy overhears a conversation between Nick and Tanner Bolt about how he’s going to fight through this situation, to which Amy names scenario after scenario regarding how Nick could possibly escape her, which actually bore striking similarity to a scene in Breaking Bad where Walter interrogates Skylar in a similarly broken marriage.
Amy pesters Nick until all of Nick’s rage overtakes him and he squeezes his hands around Amy - both hands - until both of them are on the floor prayer-style until Nick regretfully lets go with rage and tears filling his eyes as Amy falls to the floor trying to reclaim her breath.
After this, Amy falls in love with Nick all over again, calling him “electric”, “surging”, he’s a new man now, not the dull, jaded, shell of a husband she married.
This is how Amy wins, she created the man she wanted to marry in a very sadistic, controlling, and psychotic way. That’s the making of the perfect villain.
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Again, it doesn't need to be this in depth, but you get the picture. The world is yours!

- Donovan Levine