Film review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo **
Different people come to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in different ways. Some of them (millions, in fact) first encountered it in book form, as the first volume of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling ‘Girl’ trilogy – but I’d barely even heard of the books two years ago when I popped in a DVD screener of the Swedish film version, directed by Niels Arden Oplev in 2009.
I didn’t really know what to expect as the film introduced our hero, investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist (played in that version by Michael Nyqvist, now the villain in the new Mission: Impossible) – but, as Mikael was invited to a remote, icy island and invited to solve a mystery, I found myself getting hooked. His host, and prospective client, was an elderly industrialist, who laid out the facts of the case. 40 years ago, explained the old man, his teenage niece disappeared. It happened right here on the island, connected to the mainland by a single bridge. She didn’t leave; she didn’t swim across. She just … disappeared. I knew this was just pulp fiction, cheap suspense, the stuff of airport novels – but I couldn’t help it. The mystery hooked me, and kept me hooked throughout the film’s two and a half hours.
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