What's it about? Following on from the disappearance of his wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike) Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) comes increasingly under suspicion as being the primary suspect for her murder. But Amy isn't quite as gone as people think, and a complex plot to frame her husband is slowly revealed. How does it end? After a television appeal from Nick urging his wife to return home, Amy murders an old lover, making it look as if he'd kidnapped her before returning to Nick's side. Nick threatens to reveal her sociopathic nature to the media but stops when she announces that she is pregnant. Why was it controversial? Those who like to see that justice is served in the conclusion of thrillers were none too pleased that the film (and also the book) ended with this decidedly amoral status quo. Amy literally gets away with murder while Nick is stuck in a relationship with the woman who tried to frame him for murder. Director David Lynch isn't shy when it comes to twisted endings like this one, although his depiction of such a psychopathic woman led some feminists to lambasted it with the same accusations they'd levelled at the author of the original Gone Girl novel, representing a "deep animosity towards women."
