9/10. I really really loved Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. Calling Diane wasn't enough, she wa. Was it a weird crush? Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful night twenty-five years ago, now she is not so sure as, piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer. Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs.”. It's good, even very good. Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. I never had a chance to read the book - because the movie came out very early in France - so I watched the film with fresh eyes not knowing what I was in for.
Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it. It's been a while since I've seen such a good old-fashioned whodunit on the big screen; the genre seems to be somewhat of a forgotten art in modern cinema. I just finished watching it and was happy that my skepticism was for naught - this movie stayed true to the book. Flynn surely knows how to write ugly. If you've read the book and loved it, you will hate this movie. The ambiance during the whole movie is very intriguing and you will only know what really happened at the end. I could understand it as a b-list thriller, but how did they get this cast? I am mad. Spoiler Alerts: Ignore what the critics have said and check this great very dark mystery film: Based on the book of the same name, a story about a dreadful massacre in the rural America where a young girl lived to testify against her own brother and then she never recovered from it. Awards im 14 and im not sure if this is appropriate ? Almost thirty years later, she reluctantly agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that tragic night. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. External Reviews A lack of pace and discernible direction robs Dark Places of any real interest. It just feels like a bunch of s**t that happens, no reason, no motive. It was like watching a daytime soap opera. The past and the present are interwoven seamlessly until the end, which was surprisingly moving - and for my money more satisfying than Gone Girl's. Lack of pace and discernible direction lead to disappointment, 25 years after her family was murdered, Libby Day tries to get to the bottom of a horrific evening. Also there is a hefty animal mutilation scene that I had to skim. You do indeed find them in this earnest and thoughtful movie. HOW, HOW could you take such a strong cast and story and make such a terrible movie? | I thought the film had a lot of really cool twist and turns that kept me guessing all the way to the end. Certainly worth a watch if you are in for a bit of detective work. Her brother is convicted of murdering the three family members. Based on the Gillian Flynn book of the same name. I had a great time watching this movie but I also didn't expect it to be Gone Girl - which is directed by David Fincher. 5'6" small, The cast is so off-base. If there is one thing I like about mystery/crime/thrillers is that when they are good you keep try to figure out who done it during the whole movie. I love her women, I love her visceral portrayal of emotion, I loved the mystery. As a middle school librarian my vote is NOT appropriate for a 14 yr old. Because she liked the farm so much? For a good on screen imagining, the directing/cinematography/script need to make the story come alive in a way that the book couldn't accomplish. I did not read Dark Places nor Gone Girl (the other Flynn's book) but I can really said that movie is slow but captivating. Here are some of the people from the Dark Places book who don't make it to the big screen: Stripper Colleen, Jim and Ed Muehler, the writer (and existence) of a second book about Libby Day. Give yourself about 2 or 3 more years and come back to it. Is Dark Places available for text to speech on my Kindle Fire. When Libby & Lyle were watching TV a news report came on that said that they had found her body and that she had been dead for months. Libby Day, still haunted by the day she witnessed the murder of her family on their farm in Kinnakee, Kansas, and twenty-five-years after testifying that her fifteen-year-old brother Ben was the killer, Libby is contacted by the Kill Club and devises a money making scheme that leads her back into a killer's path. And that's what I like about those kind of movies. I am one of the lucky guys to watch this movie in Paris earlier than the fans around the world. Welcome back. What do you expect from a story with a title like that?
Great cast, good script but this movie is more challenging than Fincher's. Books don't go away, they will still be available in a few years when you have more life experiences and can understand the depth of emotions for the characters and events. or ask your favorite author a question with Best Contemporary Literary Fiction (Around the Last 30 Years), Recommended Horror and Dark Fiction by Women, Spooky United States: The Scariest Books Set in Each State, Black Quill Award (2009.06|Dark Genre Novel of the Year Editor's Choice, 2009), CWA Shortlist (2009.04|Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, 2009), Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (Fiction, 2009), (Click to show. The exact same thing happened to me with Gone Girl - the book - which is why I didn't finish reading it. A great little movie. It’s the Day blood. Dark Places was interesting but not as riveting as I had hoped. There are a lot of mysteries, plots and twists in the movie that keep you interested for almost two hours. They both have a pretty respectable cast (even Chloe Moretz has a key role in this), they both feature a psychological thriller/mystery at the heart of the narrative, and both are thoroughly entertaining from beginning to end. I guess I was hopping for more of a challenge with Dark Places, something that would have surprised me at the end. Really enjoyed reading this and found myself reading "as hard as I could" toward the end, to get to the big finish. July 2009 Beth Harrington fiction Dark Places by Gillian Flynn. Why didn't Aunt Diana call Libby back? | I didn't care much for Gone Girl -- maybe it was Ben Affleck -- but I was drawn to this movie despite that. This takes a great story and makes it seem like it was written by a stoned teenager. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our, For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas."
Something’s wrong with it.
Gilles Paquet-Brenner gives us a good mystery with a secret that doesn't reveal itself until the very end. 4'10", 32 yr old, red haired, small boned Libby is being played by 6'0", 40 yr old blonde amazon, Charlize Theron. Dark places, inhabited by unstable, unpredictable characters. Either this is because it was done poorly by the director or the book isn't very good either. The Days were a clan that mighta lived long, But Ben Day's head got screwed on wrong, That boy craved dark Satan's power, So he killed his family in one nasty hour, Little Michelle he strangled in the night, Then chopped up Debby: a bloody sight, Mother Patty he saved for last, Blew off her head with a shotgun blast, Baby Libby somehow survived, But to live through that ain't much a life --Schoolyard Rhyme, circa 1985. This movie does a huge disservice to the book. Book reviews, interviews, columns, and musings. [ Not the worst film I've seen but this film ends up being pretty disjointed by its end. This film tells the story of a woman whose mother and her two sisters were murdered on their farm at night. The mystery was excellent though.
Warning: May contain spoilers. DARK PLACES. Haven't read the book, I liked this movie a lot. To me, "Dark Places" matches up pretty favorably with "Gone Girl" (I actually liked this one even better as a book than I did "Gone Girl"). Books don't go awa…more As a middle school librarian my vote is NOT appropriate for a 14 yr old. Nothing makes sense, the characters are poor and it is an absolute abomination. Ungodly and sinister, Gillian Flynn's Dark Places is just as devilish as you hope. Compared to "Gone Girl", "Dark Places" is less flashy, less psychologically twisted, more down-to-earth, more plot-driven.
It's now a story about Vikings, apparently. Ugly people and their ugly thoughts and observations. Problem solver that I am, I watched the film looking for clues but I fairly quickly had all the right suspects lined up before I even got through a quarter of the movie. Definitely worth the price of admission.
Libby Day was only eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. A fifteen-year-old boy accused of pedophilia and Satan worship who gets his girlfriend pregnant and is then accused of murdering his mother and two sisters by his third sister - how much darker can you get without it seeming too contrived? I mean really? This is a Whodunit, with the finger pointed on a different character every 15 minutes or so. Casting was done well and the flow proved that the screenplay writers & director paid attention to the original book. Dark Places Critics Consensus ... Haven't read the book so I don't know how it sticks up against that. Slow and intense, it tells a very good story.
A lot of people compare Dark Places to Gone Girl and say, book-wise, Gone Girl was the better book.
Always skeptical about a movie based on a good book - was not disappointed... A satisfying mystery that tells of savage desperation and sadistic cold-hearted murder. User Ratings I was in such a frantic hurry reading to find out what happened (could barely put it down!) Having read the book, I think there are only 2 or 3 movies that are worse. Gillian Flynn is a brilliant author, and Dark Places doesn't disappoint. I just wanted to be some woman, heading back home to Over There That Way. Flynn also wrote Gone Girl. *Spoilers* The ending made no sense. *** out of 4. Gillian Flynn's unique voice comes through in the Voice Over narration and the dialogues which are at times funny and quite cynical. 4'10", 32 yr old, red haired, small boned Libby is being played by 6'0", 40 yr old blonde amazon, Charlize Theron. Flynn nails rural Missouri so well, it is no surprise she grew up here. I'm not sure if.
Gone Girl as a film then is everything that Dark Places isn't. I felt there were many similarities between the two stories and wondered if Gillian was influenced by the real crime when writing Dark Places? I kept wondering- is this a YA book? Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books. by ... her brother Ben, 15, had killed the family, and he was sent to prison for life amid accusations of sex and Satanism. [I've just finished reviewing the cast for the movie adaptation of this book on IMBD. I wanted to like this book, and kept reading because of the plot and just wanting to know how the author would end it... Well, it does have suspense and an interesting plot, but the writing and characters are strictly adolescent. How did it make more sense for the woman to invite a murderer in her home where her children slept to kill her as opposed to selling the farm and moving to her (inviting) sister until she gets a job that isn't a total loss. If you're more into faster-paced films then you more than likely won't enjoy this. As a middle school librarian my vote is NOT appropriate for a 14 yr old. Instead it's multii-layered, so that descriptions of past events build on each other over time, and tie back to earlier descriptions in ways that weren't entirely clear before.
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