The violent scenes in this film are very real and disturbing, but the movie provides no commentary on the acts or on the problems in society that gave rise to them. The violence is incredibly shocking and gets increasingly difficult to watch, as it’s not the impersonal, mainstream gunfight violence that’s found in most movies. If the film had kept its official, international title - “Men Who Hate Women” - then the graphic images wouldn’t be as unexpected. The majority of the violence is directed toward women - there are two rape scenes and an endless host of female mutilated bodies. “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” is based off the bestselling book of the same title by Stieg Larsson, and the film stays true to the author’s original depictions of brutality.
The film’s note of haunting emptiness is offset by an extreme amount of graphic violence. For the most part, it takes place in the bleak but beautiful Swedish countryside that has been scarred by the murder. Needless to say, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” is a pretty dark film. Salander and Blomkvist join forces to solve the twisted mystery that involves uncovering a family’s darkest secrets, a series of grotesque killings, some Nazis and some sadists. Salander (Noomi Rapace, “Daisy Diamond”) gets involved with Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist, “Downloading Nancy”), an ordinary journalist who is swept up into an extraordinary investigation of an almost-40-year-old murder of a 16-year-old girl.
0 kommentar(er)
