After watching the Blank Space music video about a billion
times, each time loving it even more all I can see is Gone Girl. It was on maybe my third viewing that I suddenly put
together the connection between the Taylor Swift song and Gillian Flynn’s
novel. I heard the lyric “Find out what you want, be that girl for a month,”
and thought Oh my God, that‘s Amy. Amy
has no set personality, instead changing herself to fit what other people
around her want. Despite claiming she only became the “Cool Girl” for Nick, it
is clear she has done it before to some extent with Tommy O’Hara. Amy in the definition of a femme fatale. Just like Taylor in
the video.
In the music video, after Taylor goes… well crazy, the guy
basically stands there helpless as the dream world around him crumbles. This is
what Amy does to Nick. He is helpless to stop her insane schemes and has no way
out. She destroys his life. In Taylor's case beating his car with a golf club, throwing his phone in a pool, possibly killing him, but my favorite part is personally this: She throws his clothes off the balcony and they kind of just spontaneously combust. Sort of like how Amy makes practically everything Nick does blow up in his face.
Amy is crazy.
Absolute full on crazy. That’s the image Taylor portrays in her video.
But unlike Taylor, who is faking the insanity in a snarky
nod to her critics, Amy is the real deal. She’s a jealous, scheming psycho.
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