Graphic violence is a recurring motif throughout Gone Girl. David Fincher proved, again, that he would not hold any gory content back for the sake of the audience’s comfort. In the novel, it is written that Amy mixes sedatives into a martini that she makes for Desi, her victim, and then kills him once he is blissfully sleeping. During the gory scene of Desi’s murder in the film, however, Amy is seen slitting her victim’s throat with a box cutter in the midst of their sexual intercourse, leaving a gash in her victim that is gushing with blood and covering herself with that blood. However, the mere addition of blood and gore was not seemingly enough for Fincher: to pack even more shock value into his film, he subtly contrasts intimacy with the