8 Great Movies Told By Liars

Initially thrown into the story from the perspective of Nick, Gone Girl is the story of a man's relationship with his wife Amy, and how the pair have grown apart over their five years together to the point of estrangement. The couple don't have the same needs and wants anymore, with Nick pursuing a relationship with one of his students and Amy feeling isolated from her husband - turning to a vindictive crime spree that frames Nicks for her murder whilst she lives away in secret. In short, they've got an entirely f*cked up dynamic, and it's exacerbated through the perspectives we're offered through the movie too.

The film plays out as two unreliable narrators attempting to mesh a story together, from two very different perspectives on what's right and wrong. Nick endlessly vies for sympathy in his situation where he has abused and cheated on his wife - so isn't the harmless victim he pretends to be - and Amy is presented as cold, heartless, and sociopathic in comparison. Both are terrible people who have done things both right and wrong, with attempts to justify their actions throughout as appropriate despite being in such a mess in the first place.

It's a masterpiece of a movie, but the truth always feels a few steps away from where we can get at it. It's two subjective storylines clashing into something only halfway reliable.