Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

David Fincher's Girl With the Dragon Tattoo might be one of the strangest , darkest, and grittiest movies I've ever seen. It's probably also one of the best. EVER. Of all time. Sadly it's not for everyone. It's violent and graphic in a way that most other main stream films would never dare to be, and some of the imagery revolving around the story is down right disgusting. The plot of this movie is probably the best part (it stacked on top of good directing, good cinematography, and phenomenal acting) , it starts on Christmas morning in Stockholm, Sweden as the the path for the main characters first crosses. The two characters being Lisbeth Salander, a genius computer hacker who lives as a "Ward of the state" due to some violent outbursts and rampant drug use. At 23 years old she does private investigations for a large corporation. She typically side steps the law in order to get every last drop of information she can, but it's always well worth it.  The other, Mikael Blomkvist, is a more old school investigative journalist who recently lost his life savings in a legal battle over an article he wrote for said magazine, attempting to take down a young, but ruthless, business man. I don't want to spoil the exact details of how they cross or what they're tasked to research, but its basically a murder mystery. And it's damn good one. Both Mara Rooney and Daniel Craig sell the living hell out of their characters, all the supporting cast pulls more than their own weight, the film never shies away from the ludicrously dark book from which its made and its a rare film where the most interesting and exciting scenes can be people talking. Or people reading. Or people looking pictures. Or eating sandwiches (Which if your looking for it you'll see it. A lot.) I don't think everyone could handle this movie but if you think you can (Even though i can't tell you why some of it's so dark) you should definitely see it. 


Its a solid A