‘Sadistic, forbidden pleasure’: why Gone Girl is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort films is a reminder of the dark joys that can be found in David Fincher’s devilish thriller“When I think of my wife, I always think of the back of her head,” narrates Ben Affleck in the opening scene of Gone Girl, David Fincher’s 2014 adaptation of the bestselling…