Gone Girl was a movie that exhibited the perfect criminal for many theories. The wife of Nick Dunne played by Ben Affleck is clearly superior, but a lying, psychopathic murderer. One who set her husband up, making him a prime suspect in her disappearance. Multiple theories contribute to figuring out why Amy framed her husband, just too forcibly be with him in the end. The theory that “Crimes result from abnormal, dysfunctional, or inappropriate mental processes within the personality” pp.(slide #3) is a key theory that explains Amy’s behavior. She was a woman whom loved her husband, but as time went on and money got tighter the love she thought they once had disappeared. It was because of her longing to be loved again and the loneliness she felt why she developed a personality that filled her mind with thoughts of events that never happened. Whether or not she thought those events were real or not she still created a reality that didn’t exist. That’s where the crime begins and the question is raised, did Nick Dunne have anything to do with his wife’s disappearance? …show more content…
In the movie when Nick Dunne goes on air to apologize and tell lies to get his wife out of hiding. Amy she’s the outreach and feels that he has changed, so she devises a plan to attempt to get back to her husband. In the plan a man whom she had used before, she uses again. She after murdering him in bed frames him for her capture and created a story in which he raped her. All of this was to get back to the man whom she thought she lost love with. In her mind murdering and framing a man for crimes he didn’t commit was validated by the simple fact that she was going to get back the man she once