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Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
A film this good could have never been made in America, It has nuance, suspense and true moments of surprise that most of the American product seems incapable of achieving. It’s cast with believable looking people, not glamour gods and the story unfolds in a at first leisurely manner but when it gains steam, look out.

The story behind the book the film is based on is a very interesting one as well, a Swedish journalist, Stieg Larsson writes three books in his spare time, never even sending them to a publisher for consideration until shortly before his death. When he dies young of a massive heart attack at the age of 50, the text is published and the Millennium Trilogy go on to become huge best sellers.

The story in this film, which is part one of the trilogy, revolves around the disappearance on a female member of a very rich family over forty years earlier. The family’s patriarch hires a reporter, Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) who has recently been falsely convicted of fraud to investigate before he has to serve his short prison term but not before he has had him investigated by Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace). In the course of this investigation, the two join forces and together they expose many deep dark family secrets.

The film has a pace that slowly draws you in but then richly rewards you with stunning revelation after revelation and a series of endings that are completely satisfying without the usual American film feel good mentality. My only real critique is one aimed at any film with sub-titles, while reading the text on-screen; you do miss some of the performer’s minute gestures.

A few final notes, the trilogy has already been made into three Swedish films and I eagerly await their release in Australia but was a bit disturbed to find that there is already an American version of the first film in development. Let’s hope it comes close to the adaptation success of the film, Brothers but I’m not holding my breath.
Rob Hudson
www.dragontattoofilm.com


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