And...goth
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loony_moonyDisclaimer: I haven't read the books.
Welcome to a world in which a female Batman fights misogyny and racism with the power of her piercings. Not that it's a bad thing; there hasn't been a female character this kickass since Trinity in "The Matrix", as far as I remember. And Lisbeth Salander (lol, that name sounds like "salamander") is a super-hacker with some pretty crazy-violent moments borne of repeated abuse and rape. So, you know, not quite a latex'd Mary Sue.
Which is to say, this movie is pretty fucked up. On a scale between "Fight Club" (crazy manbitches) and "Black Swan" (crazy womanbitches), this rates somewhere squarely in the middle, ensconed neatly in an island of "Girl, Interrupted"-ish insanity in which the society is just as unhinged as the unhinged protagonists. Lisbeth is Batmaning around Sweden, and Mikael is a paranoid weirdo with a mid-life crisis. So, you know, he's a Robin of sorts.
But man, this movie. So much WTF IDK Nazi rapists. And sexual torture. And non-con tattooing. IDK, IDK. Is this, like, the craziest shit Stieg Larsson came up with, for the sake of over-crazying the villains opposing Lisbeth and her Robin? He seriously needed a huge conspiracy theory about Nazi rapist-murderers with tons of money to oppose one goth chick (and her Robin) with a whole list of Issues? That says something about the way Larsson perceived women, for sure.
Anyway, blah blah The Bourne Identity Returns To The Matrix Of The Client. Kind of obvious plot, but Noomi Rapace is a barrel of awesome, so even the painful(er) parts of Lisbeth's characterization anviliciousness were slightly lessened.
But man, David Fincher is heading the American version? This oughta be a cinematic catastrophe.
Welcome to a world in which a female Batman fights misogyny and racism with the power of her piercings. Not that it's a bad thing; there hasn't been a female character this kickass since Trinity in "The Matrix", as far as I remember. And Lisbeth Salander (lol, that name sounds like "salamander") is a super-hacker with some pretty crazy-violent moments borne of repeated abuse and rape. So, you know, not quite a latex'd Mary Sue.
Which is to say, this movie is pretty fucked up. On a scale between "Fight Club" (crazy manbitches) and "Black Swan" (crazy womanbitches), this rates somewhere squarely in the middle, ensconed neatly in an island of "Girl, Interrupted"-ish insanity in which the society is just as unhinged as the unhinged protagonists. Lisbeth is Batmaning around Sweden, and Mikael is a paranoid weirdo with a mid-life crisis. So, you know, he's a Robin of sorts.
But man, this movie. So much WTF IDK Nazi rapists. And sexual torture. And non-con tattooing. IDK, IDK. Is this, like, the craziest shit Stieg Larsson came up with, for the sake of over-crazying the villains opposing Lisbeth and her Robin? He seriously needed a huge conspiracy theory about Nazi rapist-murderers with tons of money to oppose one goth chick (and her Robin) with a whole list of Issues? That says something about the way Larsson perceived women, for sure.
Anyway, blah blah The Bourne Identity Returns To The Matrix Of The Client. Kind of obvious plot, but Noomi Rapace is a barrel of awesome, so even the painful(er) parts of Lisbeth's characterization anviliciousness were slightly lessened.
But man, David Fincher is heading the American version? This oughta be a cinematic catastrophe.
