So I just got back from seeing new version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie. I saw the first one when it came out in the original...Swedish? Is that a language? Anyway, the first movie (you can tell that I strive for only the pinicle of journalistic integrity for my readership). I haven't read the book and have no interest in the book at all as it's not my kind of leisure reading. Nor is this sort of thing normally my typical movie fare, but in both cases I was impressed. It is a good solid story. Regardless of whether you've seen the original version of this film, I suggest that you go see this movie if you feel that you can spend two and a half hours of your time on a well crafted, if brutal at times, whodunnit.
Spoiler time. Avert your tender, virgin eyes.
Do not take your children to see this movie. If you've read the book you know why. The female protagonist in this film gets brutally raped her state-appointed care-giver (there's really nothing close to it in North American culture as far as I can tell. Maybe parole officer), but then gets revenge on him by sodomizing him and then tattooing "I am a rapist pig" accross his chest. Granted, I've seen these two movies years apart. The only glaring difference that I noticed in the Hollywood version to the original is that at the end, when the bad guy gets into a car accident. In the Swedish version she intentionally and with great malice did cause the car to explode. In the Hollywood version the car exploded on its own. Perhaps that speaks more to the engineering of American cars over European ones. Who am I to say. Anyway, as long as you can stomach the brutal scenes, and don't feel too uncomfortable watching some (consensual) soft-core porn with a theatre full of strangers, then I would say that this movie is something that everyone should see in at least one of its forms.
My name is Dave, and this has been your virtual reality check.
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