Investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist(Daniel
Craig(DIWF)) has just lost a well-publicized court battle having been accused
of publishing false information about a wealthy business man in his left wing
newspaper: Millennium, (hence the Millennium saga name). The story is set in a
modern, frozen Sweden, where we are supposed to believe that everyone has
either a fluxuating, questionable or non-existent Swedish accent. This is a
slick, gory, gritty political thriller, riddled with social innuendoes and
questioning about the treatment and representation of women. This remake, the
Swedish original and the Stieg Larsson novels (originally entitled ‘men who
hate women’) are by all means in my opinion wonderfully 21st century
feminist films.
Mikael and later Lisbeth(Mara Rooney), a troubled but gifted goth computer
hacker, are enlisted by a retired wealthy industrialist tycoon to solve the
unsolved mystery of the murder of his beautiful granddaughter 40 years ago. He
suspects the murderer is one of the members of his cold and unpleasant family,
who currently occupy an island in northern Sweden. As Mikael and Lisbeth begin
to piece together the sinister and deeply unpleasant pieces of this unsolved jigsaw,
they find themselves dangerously involved in what seems to be more than just
one girl’s disappearance.
As cliché as it sounds I think this is one of those defining
tales of our era and I defiantly recommend this and the Swedish Original.
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