Review of Gone (2012) by Multitool — 12 May 2021

Please, do not trust any man's review of this movie. Honestly, this deserves a 10 just for the horrifying shot at the end of the killer coming out of the side tunnel in the hole. Yes, the plotline is not super action filled, but that is not the point of the movie.

Seyfried preforms Brilliantly as a woman neglected by a carceral and police system that refuses to respect and listen to women. That is the ulitmate message of the movie. Those who say the clues were too easy to obtain aren't realizing that it's the journey of how she gets them that is the true point.

She consistantly has to lie about her true reasons for asking questions, instead knowing that the society around her will only assist her if they believe she is looking for missing/damaged property or a lost man instead of her sister who she knows is in danger.

In response to critisim of the "quick wrap up," the point isn't that we focus on the killer at the end but the police force who would rather believe that a young woman is "delusional" than truly investigate the violence often behind the stories of missing and murdered women.

Too often the cases involing the disapperances of women are blamed on victims (doubly so, if the victims are Black or Indigenous) and that is what the movie is trying to investigate. Amanda Seyfried does a fantastic job playing a victim/survivor trying to regain her agency in a world that would rather pin blame on her than seek true accountability.

Her behavior and visable internal self-doubt at times is so similar to mine and that of other survivors of similar traumas that it made my heart hurt. All in all, it definitely doesn't deserve the poor rating it currently has.