Gone Girl: What’s Lost in Translation and Does it Matter?

By Wesley Sharer
When I think of my wife I always think of her head. I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brains, trying to get answers. The primal questions of any marriage. What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? ~Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Gone Girl is a film that works perfectly well on its own, but familiarity with Gillian Flynn's novel before watching it does change your viewing experience -- a more rare occurrence than some assume.
Films ought to be weighed on their own terms to avoid the common complaint that "it was worse than the boo...

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