We saw The Girl Who Played With Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) this afternoon — the Swedish film (with English subtitles) based on the Stieg Larsson book, the second of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. It’s a terrific action drama and Noomi Rapace is even more remarkable as Lisbeth Salander.
Read the three books. See the movies.
(The third film, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Luftslottet som sprängdes) was released late last year in Europe but not in the U.S. yet.)
I’ve been reading Tokyo Vice this weekend, and a chapter on a missing British woman really caught my eye. It was grounded in very similar circumstances as those scenes of violence against woman described in the Larsson books: namely, the way foreigners are targeted, and the lack of response on the part of society (including the police) in responding to such crimes.
Pretty disturbing.