Movie Review: Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Brings the Hate (New York Magazine)
The degree of its popularity is a mystery, but not the reason: The late Stieg
Larsson’s _The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo_ is a satisfying lefty-feminist
revenge saga, its villains alternately venal super-capitalists, government-
empowered sodomite-rapists, and neo-Nazi serial killers, its heroine a visibly
damaged but single-minded and resourceful righter of wrongs. The verbiage and
inept translation didn’t matter to millions of readers, and neither did the
TV-movie flatness of the hit 2009 Swedish movie, which was at least faithful
to the prose. More than that, the film had Noomi Rapace, who made the studded
hacker chick Lisbeth Salander inaccessible, unpredictable, feral. With her
angular, young-old face, Rapace never went soft on the character. The chip on
her shoulder remained the size of a planet.
David Fincher’s American remake of _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_ adds
nothing to the previous adaptation, but it’s certainly the more evocative
piece of filmmaking. Fincher has to grind along to get in all that plot
(Steven Zaillian’s script hurriedly hits its marks, with few grace notes), but
his brusque, clinical touch — especially when the film shifts from Stockholm
to the frigid north — keeps you off balance even …
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