![]() Not being able to speak of the novel, the Dark Places as a film does a great job of leading you on myriad paths of misdirection. As she investigates her past, she opens old wounds and uncovers things about her life she had long since buried deep in her soul. ![]() Twenty-five years later, in desperate need of cash and with no way to get it except capitalize and exploit her seedy past, she allows an organization obsessed with real life murders investigate the case with her help, as they hope to exonerate Ben. Her brother Ben, just fifteen at the time, was found to be guilty. When Libby Day (Charlize Theron) was just seven years old, she was the lone survivor and he family was viciously murdered in what the media claimed was a satanic occult sacrifice at the desolate farmhouse in Kansas. Again Gillian Flynn takes inspiration from the headlines, this time Dark Places sheds unsettling and ominous light on the famed mass murders that capture society's attention. ![]() ![]() Ungodly and sinister, Gillian Flynn's Dark Places is just as devilish as you hope. ![]()
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