DVD Review- The Girl Who Played With Fire

Some of us have read em all, some of us are doin the fillums. I just watched no. 2 of the Lisbeth and Micke saga. here's my thorts....* spoiler alert if you're keen to see it*
- Once again the Swedes knock the socks off anything the US are likely to do with this story. Noomi Rapace is a forceful Lisbeth. They play a subtle tiger/lion growl in the soundtrack under some of her most intense moments....she doesnt need it.
- For one I find meself agreeing with a point made by David Stratton. He mentioned that a difficulty with this fillum is that the two protagonists, Lisbeth and Micke, never really meet until the end. This creates a difficulty for the fillum makers in terms of creating any  dynamic between them. I agree. But I want to take the rant further, eg:
- one of the really interesting things about all three books are their observations of human relationship through the mediums of newspapers, mobile phones and computers. This simply cannot be adequately portrayed through film, because the relationships extend beyond the pictorial.
-  Some of the most fascinating things about the Girl who Plays With Fire then Kicks the Hornet Nest are the hidden interplays between all of the characters, and how they are traced. It would make boring boring film, which is why it's downplayed. But it gives me hope! So often I hear media and people in general wailing that social media is creating a society who no longer relate. Maybe this aint necessarily so. But maybe the power of the piccy is losing its grip upon us, now that we can walk around with little headpieces looking as if we're talking to ourselves, or have interesting conversations and even relationships of a kind (here's looking at you all )without having any kind of connection in the 'real world'. The written word is coming back into its own.
- Stieg Larsson was a crusader against corruption in Sweden. The three books, but especially the last two, are a fictional exposition of layers and layers of corruption. They also expose 'corruption in the making' as they explore the behaviour of the media and the police towards Lisbeth Salander. They're an observation of group dynamics as well as the way in which each individual can have an impact on an outcome. The films seem to be setting all of this aside and focusing on the goodies vs the baddies, which is of course a very valid thing for people making a film to do. But all that texture....read the books, oh, read the books...
- Hubby had issues with Lisbeth's disembodied hand digging her thrice shot body out of a grave and carting herself off to find Daddy. Having read the book, I did not. But it did threaten to cross into Night Of the Living Dead Territory, for hubby..