Yes, even when his character is a pathological unstable jerk. It didn't start out that way (it never does). Based on a real-life story, Gosling is David Marks, son of a wealthy controlling and over-critical father and absent mother. He falls in love with a "commoner" Katie, Kirsten Dunst, who falls right back in love with him despite his oddities. The marriage turns abusive and Marks keeps getting creepier and creepier. Dunst is lovely and grounded as an abused wife growing more concerned as she runs out of options. It is sad that this film wasn't more of a success so that her performance could have been better acknowledged. The end is a theorized twist, based on the real case from court transcripts. A disturbing movie, well acted and sadly too common.
