The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

In May 2022, I watched The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for the first time on the television set. The suspense film was released in 2011. It is a remake of the Swedish-language film with the same title released in 2009 and it is also based on the Swedish mystery novel with the same name written by Stieg Larsson and published in 2005.

It follows the journalist Mikael with the magazine Millennium who is asked by a big businessperson to investigate his niece missing for 40 years and struggles to solve the difficult case with a computer genius named Lisbeth.

I watched it because Daniel Craig stars in it but I was really amazed at Rooney Mara's performance that she seemed to put everything she then had into as the skinny Lisbeth in black. Before viewing it, I had known only about Rooney as pretty women in Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, Carol and other films and I had never dreamed that she had already acted such harsh role in it, so her acting stunned me, moreover, I marveled at the fact that the cute Rooney accepted the role of Lisbeth who is sexually humiliated. I was also impressed by how cool she was with sorrow at the ending. As for Daniel Craig, I had known only about Craig as James Bond, so I was not satisfied so much with him, though men with no superhuman toughness like Mikael are something like that. I would get used to seeing Craig as a physically normal man if I saw several more movies in which he does not play 007.

The supporting actors Christopher Plummer and Stellan Skarsgård showed their presence and fascinated me. Then, after watching it, I realized that Skarsgård had played the tall and slender professor of mathematics in Good Will Hunting. I have also seen him in Borg McEnroe and other films. The Swedish actor seems to have become dignified as he got older.

I got disgusted by the story as truth came out. Then the final phase reminded me of Chinatown starring Jack Nicholson. As well as the Roman Polanski film, it is good and stylish with tension as a whole, though it includes the ugly episodes. After all, the David Fincher pictures are also different.