The Sum Of It All

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, originally uploaded by RumAli.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
directed by Niels Arden Oplev

This was a fairly standard crime-mystery-thriller that’s made “very interesting” by the eponymous character. Although having said that, the girl with the dragon tattoo is “interesting” in a by-the-numbers way. Hmmm … multiple piercings, trouble past, bisexuality, sexual forwardness, drives a motorcycle, is quite the hacker, lover of Apple products, is friends with a hacker named “plague”, trouble past, eidectic memory, and then there’s that tattoo. Hits all the bases. I bet she plays a killer Scrabble game.

Throughout the movie, I kept wanting to take pictures - as part of this ongoing project that can be summarized with the thought that “going to the movies is like going on vacation” - of the beautiful scenary. This bridge is filmed numerous times throughout the film, in day, at night, in the rain, and even made to look like 16mm Kodachrome. Sadly, this is the only shot of it that I took.

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I saw this film as part of the 2010 Wisconsin Film Festival in the grand Orpheum Theater on State Street. Apaprently there were over 1500 paid audience members!

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