Gone Girl, the brainchild of Gillian Flynn and directed by David Fincher plagues the viewer with an unsettling feeling long after it ends. Its fast-paced story setting with plot twists around the corners is coupled with unreliable narrators.
With David Fincher behind the camera, one can expect a ton of flashbacks, backstories, and foreshadowing. One particular initial scene that does provide insight into Amy and Nick’s relationship and how it pans out eventually is the “Sugar Storm” scene.
After flirting with each other at the party, Amy strolls along the streets of Los Angeles with Nick before being pulled into an alleyway where bakery staff unloads sacks of sugar. This causes the sugar to float in the air creating a sugar storm. With fluffs of sugar lying on the ground and coating the 2 characters, one can link it to them being in the midst of a gentle winter whirlwind and their individual independence ending. Cold, the feeling associated with winter, signifies the lack of warmth and comfort with Nick and Amy having to rely on each other for the same in the beginning years of their relationship.
However, the warmth, their initial spark towards one another is overpowered by coldness i.e. the recession and the mask they wore to appease each other thus leaving behind a fractured and icy relationship between them currently. Another subtle forbearing is the combining of the words ‘sugar’ and ‘storm’. A sickly sweet tempestuous atmosphere, in which they initiated their relationship.
The flip side of this coin could be pondered about with the idea of winter ushering in messages of hope and rebirth as this particular season is followed by spring. Therefore in a distant utopian setting, Nick and Amy could work through their differences and reconcile thereby salvaging fragments of their relationship. Nevertheless, this notion only seems like a bleak plausible expectation that will never see the light of the day.
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