![]() Theron recently impressed with her nuanced yet fierce performance as Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road, and a well-deserved Oscar decorates her mantle for a memorable turn in Monster. Libby's kleptomaniac quirks and acrid bitterness act as a compelling conduit for a story that often needs to be forgiven for its leaps and bounds in narrative logic.Īlthough casting Charlize Theron in the film adaptation seemed like a stretch – she's visually a distance from the small, awkward redhead that Flynn so deftly put on the page – the choice was a promising one. Beyond being an addictive example of a twisty (if fluffy) thriller, its lead character, Libby Day, is an admirable take on the damaged anti-hero trampled by her horrific past. ![]() ![]() One of the most striking things about Gillian Flynn's 2009 novel Dark Places – the famed Gone Girl author's second – is how, in the unlikely context of a beach read, it believably depicts the evolution of childhood trauma into adulthood. ![]()
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