Gone Girl - Shows how women can get away with anything

I got to watch the movie "Gone Girl" after a friend suggested that I watch it. The following is a trailer for those who haven't watched it yet.

Only gripe is that the length of the movie could have been shorter. David Fincher is at his best. Ben Afleck and Rosamind Pike were very good. Everyone in the Husband's world conclude that he was responsible for the disappearance of his wife and even possible murder.

He is trying hard to extricate himself and prove himself innocent. We root for him as the movie progresses. The law enforcement folks turn blind to so many weak points in the wife's narrative. The wife got away once by framing a man for rape. Will she succeed in getting away with murder?

In India, women get away easily even after misusing the laws be it rape, DV, dowry (#498a), SHWB. Their word is sufficient and is accepted as truth. The statistics have shown the rampant misuse.

• 55.7% of rape cases are false. The acquittal is of no use as the reputation and dignity of the man has been tarnished forever.
• 2% conviction occurs in dowry cases - Husbands and his family run around courts for years to get acquittal. The weak minded ones cave in to the extortion and pay up to the wife to get out of the false cases. 

When crime is gender neutral, laws can not be gender biased. The presumption of women as victims goes a long way in destabilizing the society. One who does the crime has to pay. An innocent shouldn't get harassed.

The Indian law system has a tenet that a criminal can get away but an innocent should not be punished wrongly. The real world however doesn't play out according to the tenets. The real criminals can get away in the system.

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