Getting Started

  I've tried two times already to begin, each time I panicked about what to write about. Until about three hours ago when I started The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Holy balls! This movie was insane! Do not, I repeat, do not miss this film! In case you've been living under a rock (like me) and haven't heard anything about it, let me share what I know. Firstly it's based on a book. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Which is now at the top of my to-do list, thank you very much. Our hero is Mikael, reporter extraordinaire, who's just been convicted of libel against a huge corporate executive. He has to serve 3 months in prison, but he has 6 months before he's locked up. He can't go back to his magazine, too many PR issues there. What to do? Then suddenly he's hired on to do a little sleuthing. That's where we meet Lisbeth, she works for a security company and she's been following him around. And hacking into his computer. Basically she's been inside his life without his knowledge. She finds him oddly interesting. Having gone through every part of his life she knows he's clean, but he's just taking the conviction. No appeals. Nothing. Back to Mikael, he working for Henrick Vanger trying to find out who murdered his niece Harriet 40 years before. No one's able to find anything, they're not even certain she's dead. Just gone without a trace. Technically she's only missing.

He goes through everything the police have on the case, goes through all of her things that Henrick still has, and he talks to everyone (still alive) that knew her. As he stares at a newspaper clipping of her in a crowd at a parade, things start clicking. Harriet's looking at someone in that photo! He finds more and more clues. But he doesn't really know how to use them. He hits a brick wall. That's when Lisbeth decides to be less of a lurker. She's been occasionally hacking into his computer and reading everything he has on Harriet. And she puts it together, at least part of it anyway. So she sends him an email (which was slightly condescending in tone but awesome) telling how to solve part of the puzzle. He tracks her down and asks her to help him, at first she's adamant that she won't but with a little sweet talk (money!)  he convinces her.  Together they discover ritual killings, Nazis, and possibly romance. But mostly killings. Lots and lots of killing. Obviously I'm leaving alot out but that's because I want you to watch and/or read this movie/book.
But as an added incentive I should tell you there's a revenge scene featuring Lisbeth. Damn! It's one of the most satisfying revenge sequences I've seen in AGES! You do not want to mess with this chick. Seriously. I won't lie, I had to watch it a few times. I cannot wait to see the next two installments of this trilogy. The sequel The Girl Who Played With Fire is out but I haven't had a chance to see it yet. Needless to say that will be high among my priorities. But until the third film comes out I'll have to wait patiently and read the novels.