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I saw Gone Girl last Friday and it's STILL haunting me. This film was so well done. Dark. Satisfying. Obviously functions for a mainstream audience yet with art house appeal.. Made me wonder about a lot of things re: film/culture/media/psychology/values/mores and draw connections between this and other seemingly unrelated pieces of media like The Bachelor/Bachelorette I always saw that as a sociological lesson and a way in which the media manipulates our craving of values (i.e. family unit, love, purity) much like how a mainstream film does (story telling formula being, give them a value, take it away, the restore it at the end which is why you see so many story arcs w/ a family unit being destroyed then saved at the end- someone's love life being interrupted and finally, reuniting with the loved one) In this case, we the audience, along w/ the main character and the community in the film are being manipulated the whole way through. Anyone have any thoughts to share re: the movie itself, values, media consumption in society, or maybe just manipulation, as it applies to this film and in BDSM?