Amy Dunne monologue from Gone Girl

Amy Dunne’s monologue

In Gone Girl (2014), the character Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) delivers a chilling villain monologue where she details her meticulously planned revenge against her husband, Nick. This monologue is delivered in voiceover as she narrates her diary entry, revealing her dark and manipulative nature.

When I think of my husband, I picture cracking open his skull, unspooling his brain, trying to get answers. The primal questions of any marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do? My parents loved to present me as a perfect, bright, young woman. The only child they'd ever need. Their Amazing Amy. But I grew up as a reflection of them. Who they wanted me to be, not who I was. And then I met Nick Dunne. A handsome, charming boy from Missouri. A writer, who needed me. My Nick. I love you, I love you, I love you. Everything about us was perfect. But then, it wasn’t. Everything became a joke. An illusion. I was the fun wife, the cool girl. Men always use that as their defining compliment, don’t they? 'She’s a cool girl.' Cool girls are hot. Cool girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind. I’m the cool girl. Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time, 'Cool Girl' offended me. I’d rage against it. I’d think, 'I’m not like that.' But then I started to think, why not? Why can’t I be like that? I can be that girl. I can be the fun, cool girl. And for Nick, I was willing to be the perfect wife. But after a while, I started to get angry at myself for pretending to be something I wasn’t, for giving up parts of myself to make him happy. And then I realized... I am so much happier now that I’m dead. Technically missing. Soon to be presumed dead. Gone. And my lazy, lying, cheating, oblivious husband will go to prison for my murder.

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