Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: The Original Movie Disgust is one of many adjectives used to describe The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; it is easy to understand why so many feel sick about the murders, hate, and deep sadness it drags the characters through. This movie is derived from the Millennium trilogy by author Stieg Larssons. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first of the series leading each sequel of Millennium trilogy made into film by Danish director Niels Arden Oplev in 2009 with the later two of the series to follow by director David Alfredson.(IMDb) The main character is twenty-four year old Lisbeth Salander, a battered individual since childhood, who will stop at nothing to revenge the abuses against her and other women, she partners up with journalist Mikael Blomkvist to find justice for a Swedish family on the secluded island of Hedestad, off the cold northern mountains of Sweden. Blomkvist himself is waiting to serve a three month jail sentence for a journalism case he was wrongly accused in. The movie is riddled with gruesome acts of violence against women that drive the viewer to cringe and cling to the screen, waiting for justice to prevail against the evil-doers. Famed journalist Mikael Blomkvist is hired by the Henrik Vanger, an older man searching for justice and peace for his niece Harriett Vanger. The Vanger family is characterized as greed driven, secretive, and dysfunctional with major Neo Nazi ties making everyone a suspect. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has a strong message of violence against women, authored by the late author Stieg Larsson depicting of his strong human rights views that he stood for into this story of survival and justice. According to Stieg Larsson’s official website, “He was the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Expo from 1999, and had previously worked at a major news agency for many years. He was

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