PRETTY PRIVILEGE: THE MOVIE | Gone Girl Movie Analysis and Reaction
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So I had read the book. And you are gonna hate the answer to why Desi was obsessed with Amy. Two things...Desi's mom and him are disturbingly close...and Amy looks like Desi's mom. And she hated Amy. And any of Desi's girlfriends. I suspect abuse since his mom was EXTREMELY controlling of him.
In the book, Desi never actually attempted to unalive when Amy dumped him...she made that up. However, Desi did have a white knight syndrome and all his girlfriends after were "damaged"
The idea that absolutely anybody could think this is a "good" ending and not exceedingly upsetting is honestly scary
The first time I watched it I had to take several breaks from how terrifying all this is
Why did Nick stay? You think pursuing custody is impossible? He was too lazy to perform for her, and he’s too lazy to leave.
@@realSimoneCherie It's because he'd be pursuing custody of someone who would literally easily kill a person and have no remorse. She'd quite easily kill the child and frame him, or torture the child to torture him. When you're a father it's not just custody you have to worry about, but also the childs safety. He's not too lazy to leave, he's trapped in a hole he didn't see because he was too lazy to see it.
No I think you’re spot on about the movie not pulling punches with Amy. At pretty much every turn she manages to trap people because of their biases about What she is (tiny attractive white woman) or because Who she is (rich famous Amazing Amy) means she can always leverage public opinion easily and in her favor.
Wait what?... People think this movie had a happy ending? Really??? Wait let me scrub the comments... this can't be...
Ok at least not people here... but.. I'm SHOCKED... like super shocked... I know everyone has the right to their opinion but in which universe is this a happy ending?
Also, completely agree. Margo is best character and Amy is 10000% going to ruin her for daring to be close to "her" Nick.
Nick is passive. He’d rather stay with a psycho than pursue a custody battle for his child 😂Margo is smart. She’ll learn you can’t care more about someone than they do about themselves - it’s losing battle
Great reaction! They really are just utterly despicable characters XD Amy's rant about playing "cool girl" stuck in my head for so long after reading it for the first time. Her character is fascinating - the internalised misogyny, the spoilt entitlement, the sociopathy. The book made me so uncomfortable on multiple levels. I'd definitely recommend reading it yourself if you're in the right head space for it. The intrigue and unreliable narration works far better in written form than on screen imo but the film is still faithful to the source material.
That line about 'that's marriage' is both infuriating because, fuck no, not a healthy one, but also chilling, in the sense that it makes me wonder about her parents and their marriage and how they were behind closed doors and how much it influenced her.
Yes, she is a sociopath and yes she is entitled and yes the internalized misogyny is horrifying and she is absolutely a villain protagonist.
At least some of her ideas have to have been learned somewhere, normalized somewhere, and for her to have that vision of marriage and with how her parents are I can't help but wonder how was it, growing up with them.
Especially her mom, what with her being the writer of Amazing Amy and the one who in ever-oh-so-polite-words actually shits over the place her daughter went to live, while her husband seems to be playing the support person to his wife.
How many times did Amy hear 'if it's worth doing, it's worth doing bright!' growing up, especially as a criticism coached as an encouragement or as a criticism presented as a constructive one while both times it was also a reprimand or a knock down of Amy's own actions. How many times did she see her parents struggle privately but then present an united front in public.
It would neither justify nor excuse anything Amy did to everyone else, hell no, not even vaguely remotely at all, but I am morbidly curious about it.
And I feel horrible for their kid, poor baby does not deserve any of what their life growing up will be like.
Oh, the end of this film made me think of Antler Holst's 'all eyes on you' monologue and how 'it's a dream you don't wake up from', Nick never will wake up from this nightmare.
I really appreciate your videos, you pull out so much from from the shows and movies.
I TOTALLY agree with you in that this film mocks so many facets, starting with the "missing, pretty, white woman" factor! :D
Amy reminds me of Cersei Lannister if she could actually plan.
This movie had just the right amount of trash by both Nick and Amy to make you not like either of them, and also not really feel bad for either of them, but also feel like, "This... should not be...". Nick is trapped because if he leaves she will hurt his child, but he was also trash and lazy and let himself get trapped in this. In the end she doesn't even really want him to do something bad... She just wants him to be a caring husband... but now his consent is irrelevant... So you can't even feel like "omg she's a monster to him" but at the same time you can. The entire movie is disturbing done right. In the end it's his sister I feel the worst for. And the child.
I remember seeing this when it came out, and walking out at the end feeling disturbed. It was very well done, but it wouldn't have taken much of a tonal shift for Amy to go from "villain protagonist" to a full blown horror movie villain.
I thought that this movie was supposed to be a critique on the Not Like Other Girls type of woman character
The way you edit your videos is satisfying to keep my attention. Thanks 👍
One of the best analyzes on YT, and I think I've seen almost all of them. Thanks.
You know, I met a woman with a similar psychological profile. Magnetic attraction, combined with the permanent attempt to control and manipulate me, including through psychological aggression. It took me years to get out of this catastrophe, and I got out with the after-effects (PTSD and depression). 6 years after the complete separation, she was still harassing me with emails.
This movie helped me to be able to defend myself, after we broke up and she still tries to dominate me.
I agree. Unlike Midsomar this movie isn't excusing Amy or even Nick. Their relationship and Amy herself are just sick and sickening.
I saw you watching "The Menu" and this one video, and I really, really like your analyses! Love the reactions too!
So the "six weeks" number is based off what Amy is lying to Noelle (Maybe Nora). Though Noelle looks WAY further along 6 weeks when Amy stole her pee so...not sure if you can tell how long someone has been pregnant with that...just that they are.
Ah okay cause that really confused me in the moment and I could not wrap my head around it. I blame Period Brain.
@doctorcanonvo4647 understandable as most people's revenge plots don't involve stealing urine 😂
Yes tests are just checking fut hcg levels nothing else, beyond that they could likely figure out when the test was purchased/used crossed with the last purchases of menstrual products
Loved your analysis. Second video of yours that I'm watching today. You're great at this! ❤
Look, I ADORE this movie, I've seen it FAR too many times, I can probably quote it forward and backward, but I am NOT on Amy's side. AT ALL. Nick could be an idiot, but he didn't deserve THIS. Falsely accusing people is fucked up. So I can't stand when people behave all "WHOO, YOU GO GIRL!" for Amy's story, it's obnoxious as fuck and I think missing the point.
So given that context, I'm only 4 minutes into your video, and your pre-reaction speech gives me so much hope that your opinions will be a lot more nuanced and intelligent and ethical than what I'm used to hearing. Let's do this!
Best review I've seen. The Diana references I had totally missed.
Nick was a a darn fool. I would’ve literally asked the detective to help me disappear and helped them get evidence she plotted the whole thing.
Rosamund Pike was such a sweet Jane Bennet in P&P !😢
Unspooling her brain would definitely not help.
It's funny watching your reaction to this right after watching your reaction to _Pride and Prejudice._ Quite different characters for Rosamund Pike.
Love your commentaries - always learn something. Like, the Ophelia reference - had gone totally over my head!
So happy to find this video right on time for dinner 😊 I absolutely love your channel and analysis - as well as this book / movie - so I'm excited for this one. Just a quick suggestion: when you add text over your video, could you maybe leave it on screen for a bit longer? I'm usually a fast reader but I find myself struggling and having to pause a lot bc I don't want to miss your comments but they go by so fast. Keep up the fantastic work otherwise and love from France!
I'll certainly try! I was so scared that it'd ended being so, so long but yeah next time I will absolutely do more to keep the words on the screen longer. Also I release stills for the "blink and you'll miss it" moments on the community tab.
@@doctorcanonvo4647 Thanks! The video did not disappoint at all 😄 And I do read those stills religiously - just worried I'll end up missing some in the long run.
I feel horrible for Nick and Amy’s future child, what a toxic and dangerous environment to grow up in
Wait, she's actually pregnant? I thought she lied about that just to trap him in the marrige because he would be ruined publically if he left his wife after all that mess.
I would love to hear your reaction to another film featuring Rosamund Pike called "I care a lot"
I just remembered this, but in the book (in *both* Nick & Amy's perspective), Amy's mom is always described as having a vaguely vaginal scent. Y'know, like how some people always smell like a particular soap brand, or vanilla, or whatever... The smell people seem to pick up on with the mom is... Vaginal...
Just thought you should know.
I'm marrying a male version of me, so....yeah...it's pretty easy. We have arguments, we apologize, and we cuddle it out. There is perfect trust. I had no idea that relationships could be this healthy.
I haven't watched it because the trailer and all discussion really does feel like a 'battle of the sexes' revenge for an unsatisfying relationship but not really anything else movie.
Oh This film is one big reference to Thelma & Louise, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, and Fatal Instinct type of Bunny Boiler films.
The people who rob Amy are playing the Brad Pit part in T&L that kicks off their final spiral but the raping guy in the parking lot isn't real in this film! Amy only goes to her suicidal ex because she lost the money (she should have not used the runaway wife story, people don't leave without cash to escape), she only kills him because she's feeling as trapped as she does with everyone else. I absolutely thought the cat or the sister was going to be horribly murdered. Hope the kid gets to stay with the aunt when things get boring for Amy, she cannot take other people's needs into account it will always be an attack on her.
The line "how did she get the box cutter" reminded me a lot of the accusations against Joanne Lees who was accused of murdering her boyfriend in the NT by the English press, the Northern Territory police had to defend her in every press conference they held, no press in Australia backed the theory up but it nearly stuffed the eventual court case. She had to do a demonstration IN COURT of how she escaped to convict the guy who did do it. The True Crime fandom feels like a villain in this story itself.
LOL "Two pump chump" . . .
22:35 had the SAME reactions to Nick casually constantly talking to the police and insisting he didn’t need a lawyer 😂
I don’t care how innocent you are, have you never watched a documentary?
The narrator is Amy reciting the entries in her diary (or her thoughts at the moment) . . .
Desi is a crazy person that Amy took advantage of. I agree. But I don't think he did _anything_ to Amy at the lake house. Until she pulled that "Mr. Collins". I think he wanted to be with her. Like, for real. Crazy, though. When he said "I'm not going to force myself on you." I think he was talking to himself. When she finally put the moves on him. I think he was like "Oh, this is the start of a wonderful relationship." Also, I get sex. That's why the boxcutter scene is so jarring. Think about it. She could have done anything with that guy. Her musings about going to Rome for the summer. Desi would have made that happen. She just needed to be the hero! To one-up "Amazing Amy" JMHO.
Looking back I think NPH's awkward performance might have affected my opinions of Desi as "creepy" as opposed to "unstable and dumbly naive".
@@doctorcanonvo4647 No doubt. I didn't say that he was anything other than an object of pity. I feel bad for him. He was delusional, but he didn't deserve to die for that. Here's a guy who is crazy about you. He _wants_ to go the Greece with you! But an ill placed bottle and some hand wrapping and you kill him with a boxcutter. WHAT!?!? I was secretly hoping that there was a camera she didn't know about; video taping the whole murder. THAT would have been justice. I have to say, watching revenge movies, sometimes brings out my inner barbarian. But killing Desi? WHY? Why would your murderous rage be on that guy? Does he even have anything to do with the story? She should have killed Nick with a boxcutter. I'm like, "OK. Guys a cheater. What comes around goes around." But Desi? A death SO needless. Was it just to make a splash on your front lawn? There's a reason for murder.
@@doctorcanonvo4647 In the book he's 100% a threat to her, and she realizes it as soon as she gets to the house. He already had "her room" prepared months to years prior to her going missing, had a specialized green house growing nothing but her high school favorite flowers, etc. He also starts controlling her food intake immediately, refuses to let her have any money of her own, and makes it pretty clear he has no intention of ever letting her leave the house without him ever again, despite him wanting her to come clean so she'd no longer be a fugitive and thus wouldn't need to be in hiding.
He hadn't hurt her yet when she killed him, but it was pretty clearly going in that direction.
Fun fact that is not fun at all, well I do absolutely love this movie and think it's great especially on multiple watches it did have a very negative downside in the real world... Obviously people make connections from this to Laci Peterson however because of the plot twist it created a massive swelling of people insisting that this was an implication that Scott Peterson was in fact innocent... So much so that there were serious conversations about a mistrial... The idea of him being tried again because clearly it wasn't as slam dunk as it initially seemed similar to Nick.
I don’t know a lot of Ben’s movies but Fincher makes even mediocre actors excellent somehow. Justin Timberlake performance in Social network is another example of that.
I could never see the ending as 'happy' - its the lesser of two evils, in a way, because Nick doesn't end up being falsely accused of murder, but like - if I would call the ending anything, its 'Foreboding' - A ticking time bomb.
I just had to come in today because if you are actually suggesting did Neil Patrick Harris is a middle age actor going after much younger if not underage girls as a regular thing as possibly the single best terrible read I've ever come across.😂That was essentially a read on Barney Stinson not NPH.
@@cheerfulsatanist I was talking about Casey Affleck. I know nph is gay. I just don't want to look at his naked ass.
Deeply disturbing story. One if my fave movies.
Seeing people react who have only seen the movie is wild, because they so often come away hating Amy more than Nick, or worse, seeing Nick as a victim. Its so interesting to me because Nick SUCKS. He's a monster and a predator. He doesn't love Amy, and he doesn't live Andi either. He convinces himself of both, but the second his lawyer tells him he has to leave Andi he describes how he got completely over her in the 2 her plane ride home, and he HATES her for going to the police, sees it as a betrayal of him despite him treating her abhorrently the entire time. And he's the same with Amy.
The thing with Nick is he's every bit of a misogynist as his father, but he doesn't want the stigma associated with it. In his head he thinks the things his father says outloud. He convinces himself he isn't because he "loves women", but what he means is he loves them when they love and do for him. He loved Amy when she was bending over backwards trying to be what he wanted, but hated her when she set similar expectations of him. He loved Andi when she was his doe eyed student who worshipped the ground he walked on, but hated her when she stopped being someone he had control over. He loved Go, until she started questioning him after finding out about Andi and the woodshed.
Amy isn't a good person, but Nick 100% deserves everything she does to him, and honestly if she had gone through with letting him go to death row I wouldnt have been sad for him because he is easily the worst character in the book.
But that's not the story the movie tells us.
Good commentary.
She will have Twins...
Where ever there are messy and convoluted relationships….Tyler Perry shall be there.🦸🏾♂️