The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A trilogy begins. http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2735866905/
Honestly I have no idea what this is about, not being one of the millions that knows the story, but I'm netflixing it!
Eve
16 years ago
Oh that does look pretty good, haven't heard of it before either.
ROzbeans
15 years ago
FYI - there's some vicious rape in this =/
It's on streaming for netflix so I started watching it last night. It's subtitled, which I got used to pretty easy, but it has a couple different storylines happening in addition to the actual main plot. I'm like 1hr into 2:26hrs of it and the dragon tattoo girl is a hacker on probation. Well her cool 'guardian' or probation officer has a stroke, so she gets another one. Well he's a sadistic rapist who right off the bat starts to sexually harass her. Cut to the chase, he forces her to perform sexual...stuff...to get money from her own damn account. I guess out there the guardian controls the finances. So after that first encounter, he makes her come to his home and then he rapes her for like 2 hrs. However, she video tapes it and wow...exacts some fucked up revenge.
Anyway, I zipped passed the rape (thank god) but the revenge was worth it. Especially when she tattoos 'I am a sadist pig and rapist' on his stomach. That kind of made me smile.
The main plot is interesting so far. A rich retired businessman lost his niece like 40 years prior - he hires a discredited reporter (is sued and is about to go to jail for slander) to look into it. The dragon tatt girl does a back ground hacking check on the reporter for the businessman, but continues to hack his shit after she realizes he was set up and finds some interesting things on his laptop.
The niece just disappeared one day at a big family meeting on an island that only has one way on or off. They have pictures of her on the island, and there was no way off at the time, but poof, she never shows up to dinner. She used to give him framed pressed flowers for his birthday every year, and after she disappeared, they continued to come. Creepy. So he's sure someone in his family did it, but he doesn't know who and doesn't want to die not knowing. The reporter has a past with the girl, which he had forgotten, she baby sat him when he and his mother would come to the island to visit.
So anyway, it's fairly interesting, but there is an english version in the works. Wonder how it will compare. More after I finish watching it.
It's on streaming for netflix so I started watching it last night. It's subtitled, which I got used to pretty easy, but it has a couple different storylines happening in addition to the actual main plot. I'm like 1hr into 2:26hrs of it and the dragon tattoo girl is a hacker on probation. Well her cool 'guardian' or probation officer has a stroke, so she gets another one. Well he's a sadistic rapist who right off the bat starts to sexually harass her. Cut to the chase, he forces her to perform sexual...stuff...to get money from her own damn account. I guess out there the guardian controls the finances. So after that first encounter, he makes her come to his home and then he rapes her for like 2 hrs. However, she video tapes it and wow...exacts some fucked up revenge.
Anyway, I zipped passed the rape (thank god) but the revenge was worth it. Especially when she tattoos 'I am a sadist pig and rapist' on his stomach. That kind of made me smile.
The main plot is interesting so far. A rich retired businessman lost his niece like 40 years prior - he hires a discredited reporter (is sued and is about to go to jail for slander) to look into it. The dragon tatt girl does a back ground hacking check on the reporter for the businessman, but continues to hack his shit after she realizes he was set up and finds some interesting things on his laptop.
The niece just disappeared one day at a big family meeting on an island that only has one way on or off. They have pictures of her on the island, and there was no way off at the time, but poof, she never shows up to dinner. She used to give him framed pressed flowers for his birthday every year, and after she disappeared, they continued to come. Creepy. So he's sure someone in his family did it, but he doesn't know who and doesn't want to die not knowing. The reporter has a past with the girl, which he had forgotten, she baby sat him when he and his mother would come to the island to visit.
So anyway, it's fairly interesting, but there is an english version in the works. Wonder how it will compare. More after I finish watching it.
ROzbeans
15 years ago
This was a really good movie. However, it is sick and fucking twisted. Without giving it away, the last 30 mins is mind blowing - when you find out ... well when you find out EVERY THING. The girl with the tattoo, the missing girl, how she ties in with a bunch of other shit that was pretty damn disturbing. It's not overly graphic/gross bloody, but the implications are ... ew.
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Can't wait to see the English version, but this foreign version is worth the subtitles.
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Can't wait to see the English version, but this foreign version is worth the subtitles.