During the initial episodes of the glossy new Netflix thriller Behind Her Eyes, there’s a sort of polite familiarity to it. The upside being that when a rare surprise ending did feel genuinely fresh, it hit harder as a result, the biggest reveal being that a twist could actually still shock us, despite our fatigue with the format. But in 2014, David Fincher’s sleek adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl served as a flashy reminder of what we’d been missing. Because even an otherwise forgettable film can suddenly sear itself into our brains if it’s bookended with a narrative leap off a cliff. Great films these are not but it’s difficult not to admire their unhinged audacity and, for me at least, impossible to forget it.

Source: The Guardian February 25, 2021 07:35 UTC