[In Swedish with Subtitles]
Characters: Mikael Blonkwist, Lisbeth Salander, Harriet Vanger, the Vanger family, etc.
Based on an internationally best-selling novel which I have never read, set in Sweden. Mikael Blonkwist is a disgraced investigative reporter who is about to spend three months behind bars for allegedly libeling a rich and powerful businessman. Before resigning from the magazine where he has up to then worked, he is offered a job by another wealthy businessman, a member of the notorious Vanger family. Blonkwist is offered a position as an investigator of the presumed death of Vanger's beloved niece who disappeared at a festival in the 1960s. Harriet Vanger, the missing girl, once babysat Blonkwist as a young child. Though the Vanger who hires Blonkwist seems like a good guy, there are many skeletons in the Vanger proverbial closet, including Nazism and Nazi sympathies, racism, antiSemitism, sexual abuse and possibly murder(s).
Lisbeth Salander is a heavily tattooed and pierced bisexual, genius computer hacker and ex-mental patient with anger issues. She is in a no-win situation with her state-appointed guardian, a pervert who blackmails her into a relationship involving rape and sexual abuse. Fortunately, the pervert eventually gets his comeuppance. Salander is skittish and odd socially, likely due to past sexual abuse as a young girl. She is hired by the Vogel's to keep tabs on Mikael Blonkwist, but when he discovers that she has been hacking into his computer instead of turning her in to the authorities he hires her to help him with his investigation. This was a really excellent murder mystery, but the nudity and sex scenes will make many people uncomfortable. Definitely not a movie to bring a child, but could likely be a Best Foreign Film nominee in the very near future. Another thing to keep in mind is that this movie is over two and a half hours.
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