The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
By Amelia Skaczkowski
What can only be described as a drama/thriller/high nudity movie, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will certainly get your heart racing (pun intended).
For those who haven’t read Stieg Larsson’s novel, which the film is based on, I’ll give you a little run down: the story centres around journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig aka James Bond) and social outcast Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). The pair become entangled in a murder mystery, and entangled in each other’s legs, again and again and again. And again.
The story follows closely to the book and graphically details sexual assaults, deaths and psychotic tendencies.I would suggest seeing it on an empty stomach and having a big strong man around to cling to. Unfortunately, I had neither of these things (Hi Tom).Moreover, not everything is easy on the ears. Set in Sweden, all characters have a well rounded Swedish accent. – except James Bond. Perhaps 007 thought he was above changing his drawl. Perhaps he thought we’d be staring at his chest rather than listening to his accent. And if this is the case, then well played Mr Bond.
The film certainly fits its thriller genre and gets a solid two-thumbs-up from my untrained, unskilled, slightly silly brain. So if you’re into rape, torture, bigotry and murder, why not get the family together and see this little beauty.
I picked up the Feb. issue to read yesterday and was pleased to see a couple of my ex-students featured as contributors. Interesting articles-the 10 University Commandments is a hoot. However, I cannot praise the appalling review of David Fincher’s Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.Apart from being a very trite account of the movie, where on earth did the reviewer get the information that the film is based on “David Fincher’s novel” when it is in fact the first book in Stieg Larsson’s multi-million selling Millenium Trilogy??? The reviewer does admit to being untrained and unskilled but a little research could help in addressing those shortcomings.
Hi Barry,
First of all, thanks for the feedback! The 10 University Commandments article was one of our favourites too. As for the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo film review, we apologise for letting such a large error go unnoticed. Within the first few days of uploading it to the website, we fixed the problem (apart from the excerpt, which I embarrassingly just noticed I forgot to change), however it was too late for the hard copy version as it had already been sent to the printers. Hopefully you continue reading, and we would love to hear more of your feedback for our upcoming issues.
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