The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
First I will point out that while I
bought the book I did not read it prior to seeing the film.
It's a pretty amazing movie filled with
faces you know.
What struck me the most was that when I
was in my teens I wanted to be the true outsider, the one with the
middle finger raised to the conventional world but I never had the
balls. Rooney Mara's Lisbeth does this literally in the film.
Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer and
Stellan Skarsgard were amazing, each in their own way. Robin Wright's
accent was a little odd, I kept watching her mouth, odd I know but
that's what happened. Joely Richardson nailed her part to such an
extent that I can now forgive her for Nip/Tuck.
Much has been said about the rape
scenes, I wondered how the audience of married couples in their 50's
was going to react to it and there was no reaction, none. Not sure if
they had read the books and knew what to expect or if the violence of
Starsky and Hutch and Law & Order: SVU inured them to what was
occurring on the screen.
I'd say go and see it whether you have
read the book or not and if you don't make it to the theater, rent
it, nothing will be lost in the translation from theater to home.a
I was watching her mouth too, but for a different reason :-)
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