Response to Gone Girl  Nick and Amy fight scene

Gone Girl is a 2014 American psychological thriller film directed by David Fincher. This film unearths the secrets at the heart of a modern marriage. From watching the clip, the representation of the film is gender in which the overpowering of male dominance between the two has been shown through both violent, physical and verbal actions towards his wife. The clip has been made clear that the contents of the film would be aimed at ages 18 and above from the sexual and violent scenes. Personally I think viewing would side towards and attract more females due to the sympathy and relationships towards Amy who is the main character of the film.

We are introduced to the clip through an over the shoulder shot of Nick rapping Amy which gradually fades into a panning shot. From us being introduced to Nick first out of the two it highlights that he has more power. The power Nick holds within the relationship is also expressed through the different camera angles and his actions towards Amy telling us that he plays the dominant role in the relationship.
Shortly after the panning shot a voice over of a women’s calm husky voice begins in whom we assume is Amy’s.  The story of their relationship is starting to be told through Amy’s thoughts and emotions. While Amy speaks her trapped thoughts instruments which we would associate in having a depressing outlook such as violins and string instruments begin to play which defines the mood and genre being a psychological Thriller. The lighting of the scenes is made up with warm tone household lighting. As the house looks rather big and specious and the costumes of the couple are dark it shows that their relationship is unfulfilled and unsteady as we associate dark colours to be the colour of depression/death.
The most powerful moment is the fighting scene. As we follow Amy down the stairs who is following her husband, as soon as she reaches the last step there is a sudden change to a mid-shot of the two. Amy is the first one to make the move out of the two where she hits Nick. However, as Nick is the stronger and more dominant one. As we would expect he pushes Amy to the floor. Short black outs accompanied by change of camera happen every black out which is showing us how panicky she is. The most powerful sentence which gets said throughout the first scene is when Amy says the words ‘what scared me was how much he wanted to hurt me more’ The whole of this fight scene foreshadows what is going to happen further on in the film as we expect Amy to be put in more danger.

I decided to deconstruct this film scene from Gone Girl as it is very similar to what I am planning on looking at as it explores psychological thrillers, and the different impacts it can have on the mind and how we act upon it.