The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

L: this was a great movie. it was quite long, I was never bored. There are some gruesome scenes (excessively so) but that would really be my only complaint. The story was interesting, the acting was good, and the movie kept up the suspense until the very end. I would recommend this movie to people who can read ("this movie has subtitles") and stomach scenes of graphic sexual assault.
P: This movie spun me out on a paranoid fantasy in which Stieg Larsson was a pen name for Roberto Bolaño or vice versa. (They both wrote about non-German Nazis and misogynistic, serial killers. They both wrote about writers trying to uncover the truth of the world, writers as detectives, writers committed to certain humanistic ideals, writers as tragic, heroic figures. They were nearly exact contemporaries; both died relatively young. Comet o think of it, maybe it'd be interesting to do a critical study of the two authors as if they were the same person.)
Anyway, this paranoid, literary fantasy soon exploded into a much more frightening geopolitical one. The ruling elite’s alarming lack of urgency concerning global warming, the Stanford prison experiment and Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority, the irrational belief in Apocalypse, 2012, rapture…It suddenly became clear to me that the human race is going to be drastically culled, and soon, according to a kind of diabolical sustainability initiative. All of which goes to say that I didn’t really give the movie much thought until now, my mind being occupied with other, more important things than mere cinema. I recommend it though, if for no other reason than because it launched me on this paranoid thrill ride and who knows, it might do the same for you.