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Based on the best-selling Swedish crime novel by Stieg Larsson, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” has finally hit American theaters and has hit the ground running...
...searches for the truth, he meets Lisbeth Salamander (Noomi Rapace), a dangerous girl that has been hacking into his computer since the day he lost a libel trial. The two team-up to solve the mystery surrounding the secretive Vanger family, and their combined efforts eventually lead them to the unsolved crimes of a serial killer...
...mysterious, violent, loner persona could easily get lost had the film solely focused on the twisting plot, and that is not a risk worth taking. It is her odd-girl approach that keeps the movie rolling and keeps the mystery unraveling...
...fact, every facet of this story touches a nerve. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” dabbles with the horrors of mental instability, broken families, rape, religious fanaticism, and racism. And while the tale is fictional, it attempts to shed light on societal issues in Sweden that are often overlooked: violence against women, capitalist corruption, and anti-Semitism...
...Bridge, was one of these women. So was the woman who in 2007 tied the hands and feet of her 12-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son before jumping with them from the window of their flat. And while the woman who threw her 4-year-old girl from the seventh floor of a Kowloon shopping mall in February before leaping herself was not an immigrant, she was unhinged by feelings of social and financial despair. The mother apparently believed that her daughter's failure to win a highly coveted place at an international school had doomed...