[lit-ideas] movie tip
- From: Teemu Pyyluoma <teme17@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 12:21:08 -0700 (PDT)
Just saw Män som hatar kvinnan (Men who hate women). I am aware of the books,
for some reason have been putting off reading them, so no comment on the
adoption. It is one of the best films I've seen in a long time. It is not
that is flawless, far from it, the characters are bit one dimensional, social
commentary preachy, plot in many parts predictable and so on. But big screen
films are supposed to be big, and this has got all, larger than life heroine
and villain, a stoic hero, a complex evolving story building up from a missing
girl to tale of corruption on national scale. The way Hollywood used to do
movies, think Sam Spade as a troubled, pierced, poor, young hacker woman in
modern sweden. And yet the characters manage to be interesting and touching,
nothing about the film feels old fashioned (contra say otherwise fine Eastern
Promises), and the graphic violence is necessary for the story and not
overdone. Very impressed.
Cheers,
Teemu
Helsinki, Finland
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