10 Insane Movies Way Deeper Than They Look

There are surely those who watched David Fincher's Gone Girl and came away feeling that it was basically a well-directed adaptation of a slushy, trashy airport novel thriller.

An upmarket entry into the "bitch-be-crazy" bunny boiler subgenre, right?

Except Gone Girl is a bit of a wolf in sheep's clothing, using the slick sheen of its familiar thriller setup and glossy production values to conceal a more biting satire on modern relationships, gender roles, the media, and the narratives we concoct of our lives to present to the outside world.

None of this will be illuminating to media-literate viewers who engaged with the film, yet it may have flown somewhat over the heads of the popcorn-munching crowd sitting tight for a frothy murder-mystery. It was, in the very least, kept firmly out of the movie's marketing.

It's easy to picture a lesser version of Gone Girl that eschews the brilliantly catty social commentary and simply plays its premise as a straight, twisty thriller, and we'd all be so much worse off for it.