Sunday, May 9, 2010

The girl with the dragon tatoo

More than a year ago in Munich I bought the book under the title " The girl who played with the fire" of Stieg Larsson. My English was not the best, I had to use dictionary quite often, but it did not prevent me from falling in love with the book. I woke up an hour earlier to have time for reading and I went to bed only when I could not read anymore.
Then I got to know that it was the trilogy "Millenium", which consists of 3 books:
1) The girl with the dragon tatoo
2) The girl who played with the fire
3) The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
I have read 2 first books and can't wait when the 3d part will be available. All of them are about a strong woman who lives her life the way she want.  A lot of different things are involved in this trilogy and it is impossible to describe the intriguing plot in few words.
This trilogy exposes all the flaws of the modern society. The main charachter, Elizabeth Salander, is a desperate child of this world. In her life she met people with almost all possible sins. She got used to be abused by unethical people who see a perfect victum in her. Being treated unfair she has no choice to respond  by crime to crime, by violence to violence, by murder to murder.
This character is very likable and people are in her side inspite all the crimes she commits.
Last week I got to know that they already shot movies for all 3 parts and the first one is already released in U.S.A.  Even in spite the fact that film runs 152 minutes I enjoyed it all the time. Probably they could cut some investigation moments, but without them people would not understand the story.
The movie was in Swedish, with English subtitles (sometimes incorrectly translated), but the theater was packed.
Now some information about the movie:
Plot summary for the movie:
A middle-aged journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, publishes the magazine Millennium in Stockholm. In the opening courtroom drama, Blomkvist loses a libel case brought by accused Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström, and this has serious repercussions for the future of Millennium. In disgrace, Blomkvist agrees to be hired by Henrik Vanger, the aged former CEO of the Vanger companies, owned by a wealthy but dysfunctional dynasty. The old man offers not only to help his financially strapped magazine, but also to give him information to prove that Wennerström is corrupt. Officially, he is to spend a year writing the Vanger family history.

Blomkvist's real mission, however, is to solve a cold case—the disappearance, some forty years previously, of Vanger's niece Harriet when she was sixteen.
Vanger is convinced that the girl was killed by someone in his family. Blomkvist is ultimately helped in his quest by Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace), a young punk who has been victimized or misunderstood by those in authority throughout her whole life, but who is also a brilliant computer hacker. The unlikely couple become a classic detective pair.

Blomkvist comes to feel that he can discover nothing new. But the title character of the story now appears—Lisbeth Salander, an asocial punk who has been victimized and/or misunderstood by authorities throughout her life, but who also happens to be a brilliant computer hacker. By chance, she meets Blomkvist and the unlikely couple form a classic detective pair. When Blomkvist teams up with Salander, their delving into family secrets sheds a disturbing and shocking light on the four-decade-long puzzle.

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