After watching the foreign film, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the thing that stuck with me the most was the way it portrayed a more or less ugly view of humans. It depicted a far from beautiful view of the way Swedish men treat Swedish women. The movie made sadism, murder, and suicide a normal occurrence, not something out of the ordinary.
Parts were tough for me to watch as being a female myself, but all in all it was a good movie.Another thing that a lot of people have been talking about with this film, as it was with the book and the Swedish film, was the moments where sexual violence appears on screen. And while there are some really uncomfortable moments in the film, that's the reason why these scenes succeed. They shock you and make you want to look away. And that's good, especially when the themes of this movie as well as the source material were about this sort of thing, and the movie conveys it perfectly. And while these scenes do linger in your mind, they never distract you from the basis of this movie.
The movie, based off a book, is a mystery which follows a not so famous journalist investigating the disappearance of a wealthy patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He hires a punk rock type girl to aid in computer hacking to try and figure out the mystery. As the two opposites work together they find more corruption beyond their wildest dreams.
The main female character in the movie has reminded me of how in society today if we see someone unlike ourselves, or out of the normal, it is like a "stay away" or warning sign, her image lives up to this perfectly. It was amazing to me how she made the movie, she aided the journalist in figuring out the mystery by her extraordinary computer hacking skills, which I find interesting. A woman, none the less a woman in sweden, had the talent to have power and intelligence in the film.
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