Film: Män som hatar kvinnor (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)
One thing that I must say is sad is that America created films/ movies, and yet, we have been shown yet again that we suck at them. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is not your typical thriller in the slightest. For starters, the heroin is a 24 year old Gothic prodigy computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander, the main male roll is a man who has only six months of freedom before he spends the next three months of his life in prison for libel against a powerful Swedish news authority named Mikael Blomkvist, and to throw into the plot: Nazis, a murder mystery that is forty years old, and a shocking history of men who hate women.
This, being the first part in a trilogy of novels that will be adapted into films, is not an easy film to bring to the screen. For starters, the complete character of Lisbeth Salander is difficult to take into character. She acts emotionless, stubborn when people try to talk to her (just keeps quiet), follows her own rules and motivations, and very few people even understand or accept her. Second has to do with the content of this film. As someone who has read the original novel by the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson, the content is extremely graphic (includes descriptions of violence towards women and one disturbing scene of rape) and this film does a beautiful job of capturing it and showing it.
The films main downhill has to be the pacing. It is a slow film that you have to pay attention to and I do not know how American audiences would react to such a film. But when the climax hits, this films slow pace becomes quick as holy hell. You will have your jaw drop at some of the truths, stunned at some actions, and would want to just re-watch the entire film from the beginning to make sure that any of this is even plausible.
Actress Noomi Rapace, who plays Lisbeth Salander, creates more than likely the most original Heroin in film then I have seen in a long time. She makes the character so complex, so intriguing, that it is a delight to see her entire performance. One thing to support this would be how the actress went and prepared for this role. Everything about her, the thin-anorexic look, the dyed black hair with make-up to boot, and the face piercing she had to do by herself for this film's role and you can see that when she gives the performance that makes this film, unforgettable.
Now, as you can guess, this film does have nudity and some sex scenes, but it is by no means ment for eroticism. This film has a lot of action, but not the plot consuming type that Americans consider to be good. The film does have a strong Male lead, but he is not over Macho at all. This is, over all, a film that is telling America how to make good, grown-up, thought provoking thrillers and America NEEDS TO LISTEN!!!!
Overall, this is a film that works on a lot of levels but is not by any means meant for the standard American that watches American films for they will criticize the lack of English audio track, and the way certain words are spelt, and the, well to us, odd way of making a film. But to the rest of us that are open minded, love foreign films, and want to see something that is like a giant, unexpected burst ice cold air on boiling hot day, then this film is an unforgettable movie experience. I eagerly await the sequels: The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest.
Cast/ Crew
Lisbeth Salander Noomi Rapace
Mikael Blomkvist Michael Nyqvist
Erika Berger Lena Endre
Henrik Vanger Sven-Bertil Taube
Martin Vagner Peter Haber
Lawyer Peter Andersson
Music Box Films presents a film directed by Niels Arden Oplev.
Written by Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg,
Based on the novel by Stieg Larsson.
In Swedish with English subtitles.
Running time: 148 minutes.
No MPAA rating
Cast and crew information borrowed from http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100317/REVIEWS/100319981
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