I rather got the feeling that Larsson loves the Swedish landscape but is less keen on his fellow Swedes. It seemed as if the subtext of the book was "We kid ourselves and the rest of the world that we're liberal and enlightened but we're as nasty as everyone else underneath, and perhaps worse for pretending otherwise."
If you liked the book I'd recommend the film, subject to the caveat that it very graphically depicts some of the book's sexual violence. But the sense of place is even more impressive than on the page - more than any other adaptation I can think of, I came away from the film version of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo feeling that it just looked like how I'd imagined it when reading it.
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Date: Thursday, September 9th, 2010 10:45 am (UTC)If you liked the book I'd recommend the film, subject to the caveat that it very graphically depicts some of the book's sexual violence. But the sense of place is even more impressive than on the page - more than any other adaptation I can think of, I came away from the film version of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo feeling that it just looked like how I'd imagined it when reading it.