Movie Analysis: Gone Girl

The movie Gone Girl, can be analyzed through van Gennep’s theory, rite of passage. Throughout the movie, the experience of the main character Nick, has three stages which match the theory’s threefold scheme that consist of separation, liminality and incorporation. The first stage begins at the beginning of the movie, as the wife of Nick, Amy goes missing. Nick’s life as a husband has ended as he is separated from his wife and his marriage becomes incomplete. Nick’s situation perfectly matches what Nye wrote about the first stage, Separation, in his book, “In this way the person is detached from the roles and obligations that have been associated with their live” (Nye 2008, 146). The second stage involves crossing the thresholds, the journey