The girl with the dragon tattoo Movie Piercings, tattoos, bisexuality, aloofness, hacking skills: these things a badass make. A lot can be said for a movie with strong characters, and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has characters that carry the entire thrust of the film. Well, it’s really one character. Lisbeth Salandar is this movie’s Jack Sparrow. She’s a wild card that makes what would normally be a rather standard murder mystery into something seemingly original. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo follows Mikael Blomkvist, a disgraced journalist who has been hired by a dying entrepreneur to solve the 40-year-old of his daughter’s murder. Meanwhile, Blomkvist himself is being stalked by the mysterious Lisbeth, who is in turn having some issues with her abusive parole officer. With a setup so steeped in classic noir, it’s easy to see why “Dragon Tattoo” sucks you in.Blomkvist is himself an interesting character, but it’s Salandar who steals the show. Part of what makes Salandar such a badass is that she has weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and pain. She is human. She isn’t aloof with people for the sake of being aloof, there’s a past trauma that makes her afraid to connect.
Salandar doesn’t always win, although she takes back her lowest moment with some of the most brutal, yet satisfying revenge I’ve seen. There’s an air of Agatha Christie to the mystery, what with the close-knit group of suspects all on an island together. But what Dragon Tattoo doesn’t have is Christie’s detached and almost quaint view of violence and murder. This is not a gentle movie. There is violent, abusive rape and violent, abusive revenge. The movie’s darker moments are handled smartly and tastefully. More is said with a shot of a clawed hand gripping a swatch of hair then any amount of thrusting could tell us.
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