In the vigilante fantasy Gone, Amanda Seyfried plays Jill, a young Portland woman who can?t shake the memory of her abduction a year ago. She managed to slip through the guy?s clutches ? he?d been holding her at the bottom of a deep pit in a sprawling local park ? but the local cops, after finding no evidence of said hole (it?s a very big park), decided she made the whole thing up. Then one night Jill?s sister (Emily Wickersham) goes missing in a similar fashion: When Jill goes to the cops for help, they eye her warily, all except newbie detective Wes Bentley, who purrs at her creepily, in a red-herring sort of way.
The thing about Seyfried is that she does look a little ? OK, a lot -- like a crazy waif, capable of making up any old thing and getting you to believe it by blinking those saucer-sized Blythe-doll eyes. She does a lot of that here, and she?s part of what makes Gone reasonably effective: Seyfried can look fragile, feral or a combination of both. Her skin is so translucent that she looks something like a pond creature, delicate and mysterious but also capable of staying underwater for a long, long time without breathing ? in other words, she can surely take care of herself.
Which is why you never worry too much about her character in Gone ? you know she?ll come out on top, but it?s fun to doubt her here and there along the way. The picture is very simply constructed, using a minimum of tricks as it works its way toward its inevitable conclusion. (The director is Brazilian filmmaker Heitor Dhalia; the script is by Allison Burnett.) Essentially, Jill spends a day following…
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