jab
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Just got back from watching Gone Girl, which I mostly enjoyed, the way one enjoys a well acted, well shot, highly improbable and lurid melodrama.
I can't believe it is being touted as Oscar bait.
The story requires characters to be smart sometimes and stupid other times, more to move the story along than for reasons of character development and consistentency. Most noticeably, one very smart, meticulous, manipulative and observant character does a series of small, unobservant careless things in order for the scriptwriters to move the story in another direction, not because it is believable that that character would behave in such a dumb way.
The final surprise twist at the end requires one character to have planned ahead, and saved something for a highly unlikely contingency which there is no believable way the character could have seen coming at the time or the times it would have been necessary to secure this something. There is however no other believable reason for this character to have deliberatelty saved this something and/or secreted it away where no one else, including the police, would have found it before the character needed it.
I can't believe it is being touted as Oscar bait.
The story requires characters to be smart sometimes and stupid other times, more to move the story along than for reasons of character development and consistentency. Most noticeably, one very smart, meticulous, manipulative and observant character does a series of small, unobservant careless things in order for the scriptwriters to move the story in another direction, not because it is believable that that character would behave in such a dumb way.
The final surprise twist at the end requires one character to have planned ahead, and saved something for a highly unlikely contingency which there is no believable way the character could have seen coming at the time or the times it would have been necessary to secure this something. There is however no other believable reason for this character to have deliberatelty saved this something and/or secreted it away where no one else, including the police, would have found it before the character needed it.