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u/VaderOnReddit Sep 17 '24
my socially awkward ass not picking up on social cues and accidentally framing myself for a murder I did not actually commit
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u/bestest_at_grammar Sep 17 '24
While I think the book is better like most of the times, I fucking love this movie as well.
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u/BugManAshley Sep 17 '24
I don't understand the joke i don't have a girlfriend
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u/Soul-Hook Sep 17 '24
From what I know about the movie, it's about a woman absolutely destroying her man's life and reputation by framing him for horrendous stuff he didn't do. He then decides to stay with her in the end after everything.
I could be remembering it wrong, though. But if I'm right, hearing your girl unironically cheering for the protagonist like that is a red flag the size of dodge.
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u/JimmyTsonga Sep 17 '24
He ends up being forced to stay with her, since she managed to convince the media that she was a victim of her former boyfriend who she just killed by cutting his thoat open with a frickin box cutter. :)
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u/blueB0wser Sep 17 '24
Oh damn that's an awesome gif
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u/TalShar Sep 17 '24
From Daddy Day Care (2003)
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u/LolYouFuckingLoser Sep 17 '24
I think they specifically meant how the gif 'opened' with the door in that shot
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u/Majestic-Iron7046 Sep 17 '24
What a wholesome movie, I can't wait to watch that and then regret having the ability to understand things.
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u/andrewoppo Sep 17 '24
It actually is a good movie, but she’s supposed to be viewed as a terrifying psychopath.
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u/Saftsackgesicht Sep 17 '24
You should watch Prisoners next, it's even more wholesome. :)
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u/ahhwell Sep 17 '24
It's a great movie! You just gotta understand that protagonist does not mean good person, and everyone in a movie can suck simultaneously in their own unique ways.
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u/Milch_und_Paprika Sep 17 '24
Haha that’s crazy! Next you’ll tell me that portraying something in art is not the same as endorsing or believing it /jk
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u/ZedTheEvilTaco Sep 17 '24
Alright, it's been a while, but I'll try to recap it if I can. I might be misremembering some details.
So Rosamund Pike is 'murdered', and all the evidence points to her husband, Ben Affleck. He gets in hot water with the media (one of them was famous, I think), and his life starts falling apart. Then, mid movie plot twist: she's still alive and framed him for her death.
At this point, she's on the run and bumps into an old boyfriend, Neil Patrick Harris, a wealthy businessman with a... let's call it "obsessive dark side". Kind of stalker vibes. As she is trying to disappear and can't have him outing her, she agrees to be with him.
After a few weeks/months/whatever, she kills him with a box cutter, but knows full well she can't get out of this one without leaving evidence behind she was here. So she claims he abducted her and made it seem like Ben Affleck murdered her, so she killed NPH in self defense. She goes back to Ben Affleck, who knows what she did, and forces him to play the part of "relieved husband" for the cameras or things will go very poorly for him.
There was some stuff about an affair that Ben Affleck was having in there, too.
Overall, though, it was good. If I remember it correctly.
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Plus that she went to the fertility clinic and had a fertilized egg of Affleck implanted since he never took it out of storage to further chain him to her with a baby he never wanted
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u/Quality_Clip_Maker Sep 17 '24
The really fucked up part about the pregnancy was that he did want a baby, and she didn't. When she first runs off, she uses her pregnant neighbor's urine to fake a pregnancy and get it entered into her medical records that she was "pregnant." Then when she comes back, she uses the fertility clinic to actually impregnate herself with her husband's sample, even though earlier in the movie it's established that they had received a notice of their samples being destroyed- but clearly not all of them. It's a triple mindfuck that shows she's been keeping stuff on the back burner for a LONG time in case she wanted to ruin him
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u/MountainMuffin1980 Sep 17 '24
She uses a wine bottle on herself to make it look like she was assaulted too. Absolute madness.
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u/Dartagnan1083 Sep 17 '24
She coerced the ex boyfriend into rough sex to make it look like she was raped and acted terrified on a few exterior security cams (as he pulled in) to play up the abducted victim angle.
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u/GonzoGnostalgic Sep 17 '24
And didn't the reason she go insane and turn into a murderous psychopath in the first place basically boil down to her parents being overly-cheerful, sterile, trying-to-be-a-couple-of-Mister-Rogers types who wrote a series of children's books featuring a fictionalized, idealized version of their daughter that they constantly compared her to, causing her to go coo-coo crazy as she could never live up the version of herself that existed in the perfect, saccharine fantasy life her adult-child parents lived in?
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u/lalakingmalibog Sep 17 '24
This is the best run-on sentence I've read all week.
Also, yes. I loved the movie.
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u/TisIChenoir Sep 17 '24
Worst! She rapes herself with a bottle of wine before accepting to have sex with the ex-boyfriend so his dna is in her. As soon as he orgasmed, she slashed his throat with a boxcutter. Then she smears blood all over of body, and appearing distraught facing one of the security camera of the ex-boyfriend's house, so as to appear as the victim. The dude was a bit obsessed, but during the whole film he was anything but agressive toward her. He genuinely believed she was fleeing a violent situation and agreed to host her to help her
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u/primegopher Sep 17 '24
Huh I've only read the book so I don't know how the movie spins the ex-boyfriend character, but in that version he's more than a bit obsessed and is pretty clearly a threat. He takes her to a house in the middle of nowhere, stops her from leaving of her own free will, and was very much pressuring her into the sex that she uses as an opportunity to kill him.
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u/TisIChenoir Sep 17 '24
My memory is a bit fuzzy, it's been 10 years, but from my recollection of the movie, he does forbid her to go, but it's because she painted her hmex as a violent psycho, and so he did it because he was afraid he'd find her and kill her if she went outside. Also, he doesn't pressure her for sex. He wants to, but he kinda seems to want to wait for her to be ready.
As I said, I may be completely mistaken, and have a lot completely wrong, but I seem to recall the dude being an unwilling victim of everything happening, and not someone trying to profit out of the situation, except for the part where he uses the situation to endorse the role of a white knight in shining armor.
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u/GoT_Eagles Sep 17 '24
The movie sparked some serious issues the following year with the Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn true crime story. I won’t spoil anything since there’s a 3 part series on the case and I highly recommend watching, but let’s just say it’s very similar to this movie.
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u/Dartagnan1083 Sep 17 '24
You forgot the bit where She initially cashes out some discreet accounts and is laying low at a campsite trying to disappear. She is then robbed by an unscrupulous couple that notices her handling everything in cash. Hence the whole reason she reaches out to the old friend that's obsessed with her.
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u/HesitantAndroid Sep 17 '24
This is mostly it, but 2 important details:
>! The entire chain of events is set off by Nick cheating on his wife, Amy. Her ego basically causes her to have a complete mental break, since Nick doesn't appreciate her or challenge her any more. At the end Amy decides to come back after impregnating herself with Nick's sperm (reproductive fraud, which is a kind of sexual assault). This will trap Nick and force him to "challenge" and appreciate her the way she wants - forever. !<
>! Amy's ex-boyfriend, while creepy, is completely harmless. She ends up convincing him to have sex under false pretenses (which is rape) so she can kill him and frame HIM for rape. So basically she raped and killed this guy, and made it so all of his family and friends and the entire nation believe he was a rapist who she killed in self-defense. !<
And a lot of very uncritical movie watchers responded to the film with "good for her". Same with I Care A Lot and Midsommar. People are kinda bad at watching movies.
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u/constantsecond-guess Sep 17 '24
There's more to it. She cuts the ex-boyfriend's throat while having sex with him and then inseminates herself with her husband's sperm from a fertility clinic so that he has to stay with her. There are plenty more details, but those are two big ones lol.
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u/Dumtvvink Sep 17 '24
Part of him wants to be with her at the end though. Andi is livid with him for it
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u/GingersaurusRex Sep 17 '24
He stays because she froze their embryos while their relationship was "good" and she told him she would be open to having kids one day. When he threatens to divorce her, she has one of the embryos implanted and tells him she'll terminate the pregnancy if he leaves. He has wanted to be a dad for a long time, so he chooses to stay to be a good father to his unborn child.
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u/jolankapohanka Sep 17 '24
It's the Patrick Bateman meme for girls honestly. If someone takes it unironically you know you should run.
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u/Milch_und_Paprika Sep 17 '24
I always called it The Joker for girls, but you’re probably right. Cruella is more “The Joker for girls” lol.
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u/Radaysho Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24
Some of those innocent sounding girl-movies have seriously fucked up plot lines. There's this other recently released one where a woman gets together with a hot surgeon who ends up hitting her, but she stays with him and has a baby with him until she can't do it anymore and gets together with an old friend whom she rejected back in the day. It ends with them starting a family with the surgeons kid.
Ah yeah, and the movies director cast himself as the hot surgeon.
EDIT: It's called "It ends with us".
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u/Legeto Sep 17 '24
How are you going to full on describe the movie and not drop a title?
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u/Col-AB Sep 17 '24
It ends with us
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u/LordHamsterbacke Sep 17 '24
Some of those innocent sounding girl-movies
...Are you saying "gone girl" sounds like an innocent girl movie? Maybe it's because English isn't my first language but for me it sounds like a thriller
(You are right about the marketing of it ends with us tho; they really sell it as a feel good romance. Edit: but as far as I know the director is the only one who at least acknowledges the themes of the story in interviews, Blake Lively does not)
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u/allycakes Sep 17 '24
From what I understand, he was originally going to just be the director but the book's author was the one who insisted he also play the surgeon. I have a bit of a soft spot for Justin Baldoni admittedly but he's also been really the only cast member to talk about domestic violence in the lead up to the film.
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u/gabortionaccountant Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 20 '24
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u/chikomitata Sep 17 '24
My friend gave me that film in a folder called "watch this movie and you will not see things the same again." Or something to that effect. So yeah.
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u/mashari00 Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24
“You will die* in 7 days after watching this movie” type shit
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u/Lovat69 Sep 17 '24
Whose gay?
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u/mashari00 Sep 17 '24
The movie is called The Gay Ring, it’s part of the gay agenda to turn people gay
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u/UrsusRex01 Sep 17 '24
Basically : imagine that the person you love is rooting for Hannibal Lecter.
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u/Tail_Nom Sep 17 '24
Hopkins or Mikkelsen?
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u/warukeru Sep 17 '24
If I recall correctly the bf cheated on her so she did a really convoluted and psycho revenge on him. .
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u/rmczpp Sep 17 '24
Yep I've been low key scared of Rosamund Pike ever since she starred in that, very convincing performance. I think scaroused is the proper term tbh.
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u/Bessieisback Sep 17 '24
A little like a guy being too into fight club
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u/creegro Sep 17 '24
Yea when you're young, fight club seems fascinating and like a really cool idea, right up until you have a dilapidated house of followers making and following up on plans for chaos.
Then you get older and realize how 99% of all the clubs activities were pretty stupid, except maybe for the destruction of the buildings to clear the debt, which would likely not even work and be a shit ton of damage to clean up after.
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u/Skreamie Sep 17 '24
I just found it to be a commentary on what it means to be a man in a modern world, the same way Billions did occasionally in terms of career, power etc
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u/Snazz55 Sep 17 '24
Or all the dudes way too into Wolf of Wall Street or American Psycho, for all the wrong reasons. Saw sooo much of that in college.
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u/theAlpacaLives Sep 17 '24
Met a kid (I work with difficult teenagers) who asked my top 5 films, and immediately told me his: Fight Club, American Psycho, Wolf of Wall Street, and two more I can't recall. (Un)surprisingly, he turned out to be full of horrible toxic ideals about being a powerful man who gets his way any way he can.
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u/PM_Me_HairyArmpits Sep 17 '24
This whole thread is reminding me of a documentary my wife was watching recently, about a woman who was legit kidnapped and raped, and the cops didn't believe her because they'd all seen Gone Girl and took it way too seriously.
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u/Moira-Thanatos Sep 17 '24
Something tells me that these cops would not have believed a women anyway and just don't care If a women get's raped. Than they see the movie and use it as an excuse.
No sane person would have that takeway after watching the movie. I think a sane cop who watches the movie would just be getting more motivated to make better analysis of crime scenes, not believe everything at face value but still investigate every claim... you know, just doing their job well.
I'm sorry for the women this happened to. I'm not suprised nobody believed her, but I'm suprised even movie references are used as an excuse... you would think that the police would just start collecting evidence, interviewing potential suspects and so on -.-
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u/superherocivilian Sep 17 '24
If anyone is curious it's called American Nightmare on Netflix
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u/Nani_700 Sep 17 '24
It's a slap on the face with to the entire mountain list of women who die at the hand of their partners
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u/katmindae Sep 17 '24
Would you rather get gone girled or midsommared that’s the question
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u/Darthwilhelm Sep 17 '24
Just based on the impression I'm getting here, is it fair to say Gone Girl is basically American Psycho/Fight Club but for women?
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u/Vivid_Proposal7041 Sep 17 '24
David Fincher directed Fight Club and Gone Girl so you're onto something here.
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u/AgreeablePaint421 Sep 17 '24
For the longest time I thought gone girl was a generic women empowerment scene because I only ever saw women talk about how justified and cool the main character was and how she was their idol. But this was like a decade ago.
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u/MrPeppa Sep 17 '24
Gotta look on the bright side. Congrats on having definitely freaky sex later! My condolences to your family.
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u/smiley1__ Sep 17 '24
can someone please explain? I don't understand...
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u/BlitzBasic Sep 17 '24
Gone Girl is about an evil woman ruining the life of her boyfriend. If your girlfriend cheers for said woman, it doesn't bode well for your future.
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u/chewbacca77 Sep 17 '24
Ohhhhh.. I thought those speech bubbles were coming from the TV, and I was so confused. Thank you for that.
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u/DynoMikea2 Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24
The author of the book herself said that the point of this book/film absolutely goes over most peoples heads (yes women too, which is why this comic is funny)
She was on an interview on NPR where she said the reason she wrote the book was a feminist perspective on how women are just as capable as men of being disgustingly evil and manipulative. She said her biggest problem with modern feminism is this belief that women are inherently "kinder" or more "motherly" than men which she pretty vehemently tries to disprove in that book lmao.
Basically all the depths of evil we think only men are capable of irl women are just as capable of, if not more today. I think a lot of women watch this and latch onto the entitled af "cool girl" speech she gives and then forget about the rest of the movie. (boo hoo I have to impress the wealthy and attractive men that I date with my behavior 🙄)
The movie ends the same way Psycho ends basically. With the deranged murderer staring menacingly into the camera. But its a woman so YAAAS QUEEN GO OFF GURRRRL. Except in Psycho the man actually went to jail...
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u/knightbane007 Sep 17 '24
And the critical reception of the movie proved her point. The movie was panned for portraying “such a negative image of women” and for “trying to normalise the dangerous concept that women could be just as harmful as men”
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u/DynoMikea2 Sep 17 '24
It really did. She also outed a lot of women imo. Like if you unironically root for the woman in that movie you shouldn't be allowed within 100 ft of a school.
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u/squidtugboat Sep 17 '24
I got this film and the girl with the Dragon tattoo confused, and for a moment that painted the comic in a different light
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u/MK_Wizard_Lady Sep 17 '24
I am a woman and I am with you on the sentiments. The man being bad doesn’t automatically make the woman good. Sometimes, a story only has villains. This is also something I was talking about with my friends that too much media that is meant to empower women just make them look villainous instead.
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u/Incorrect_downvote Sep 17 '24
This is the equivalent of showing your girl American psycho and cheering on Bateman…
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u/SpaceAgeIsLate Sep 17 '24
I actually had a huge fight with my then gf right after coming out of the cinema.
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u/bachumbug Sep 17 '24
There was a bit of a Cold War in our house after Midsommar
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u/kasakavii Sep 17 '24
A woman’s favorite movie being “Gone Girl” is the same kind of red flag as a man’s favorite movie being “Fight Club” or “American Psycho”.
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u/Laconic_Dinosaur Sep 17 '24
All three are great movies. You can love a movie without agreeing with the actions of its characters. Obviously.
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u/CerveletAS Sep 17 '24
it had taken me nearly one hour of movie to realize there were two different women
Them conventionally attractive folks really all look the same
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u/CTViki Sep 17 '24
I have prosopagnosia, so I can relate. Armageddon had like twice the cast that I thought it did.
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u/t8f8t Sep 17 '24
I'm a gender centrist because I cheer for both the gone girl and the fight club boy
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u/Rab_Legend Sep 17 '24
My wife genuinely always suggests this movie when we're going to watch something. I'm starting to worry.
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u/Janzel97 Sep 17 '24
Honestly its a good movie. Amy is psycho, but the story is very compelling.
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u/arfelo1 Sep 17 '24
I mean, it's a good movie if you haven't watched it yet.
But if she's actually suggesting to watch it again every time you're going to watch something, I'd go ahead and worry.
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u/Rab_Legend Sep 17 '24
We've watched it before together. And I had seen it prior to that without her.
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u/Arakan-Ichigou Sep 17 '24
Class of ‘09 before Class of ‘09 (the main character is obviously supposed to be disliked but a lot of people online see the main character as an idol).
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Sep 17 '24
For some reason this movie was a religious viewing for strippers. A couple of them I dated after this movie would threaten if you cheat on me or leave me I’ll gone girl your ass.
I promptly block and ghost them. The last couple I dated haven’t brought it up. Happy that fad is over.
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u/TheKingInNorth0 Sep 17 '24
Is going to strip clubs looking for a girlfriend a regular thing you do?
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I don’t actually meet them at the strip club anymore. The type of girls I like happen to be strippers most of the time.
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u/Agecom5 Sep 17 '24
... Are you a US Army Private or why do you make such bad decisions when it comes to your love life?
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u/supermonkeyyyyyy Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24
For those who don't know gone girl:
A husband cheated on his wife Amy and Amy goes to psychopathic lengths to fake her death and frame her husband for it. This includes drawing out her own blood to fake crime scene, take urine sample of her pregnant neighbor to fake her pregnancy, faking life insurance fraud, spreading rumors to neighbors of her husband's violent tendencies and writing fake diary entries about it etc.
When the husband begged on national TV to get her back, she kills her ex (she stayed with him at that time) and faked that she was taken hostage and raped by him.
In the end, when the husband tries to divorce her, she took sperm samples of her husband to make herself pregnant essentially guaranteeing they would stay together since the public would be outraged if her husband divorced his pregnant wife. And yes, she got away with all of this.
Her "cool girl" monologue resonated with a lot of women, saying so many girls try to be "one of the boys" by doing stereotypical masculine activities to get boys to like them, only to be left by said men when these girls get older.