The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

This is one of THE best movies that I have watched recently. I'm glad that I watched this movie in a blu-ray format as I was able to listen director commentary. That helped me to understand some of the scenes better, and why they had shot in that way.  As a matter fact, this is the first time, I listened the director commentary for any movie. This movie is based on a famous book in Swedish with the same name. People say that the book is intuitive and thrilling. I like to watch three hours movie than reading 300 pages novel. One of the Things that I don't like in Novels is, "adjectives" or scene describing words. Authors have to use lots of words to describe the scenes, but whereas in the movie, that problem is not there. May be that's why many say "A picture is worth a 1000 words". Anyway when it comes to movie, it is dark, thrilling, suspense and mind bending. In most of the murder mystery movies, you rarely see other aspects of the protagonist character like his other life, relations and problems.In this movie, first 20 to 30 minutes, they used to establish all main characters not just murder victim, and even rest of the movie, characters development keeps happening in parallel with the suspense and investigation.

In terms of acting, the character Lisbeth done by Rooney is extra ordinary. After watching the movie, I searched in the internet to see how she looks really. And I wondered that she actually having a pink long hair, which is got short and made total black in this movie. I bet you can't recognize her in real picture. It takes some time to realize she is the girl who played the character in that movie. She lived in her character, and I really thought she would be awarded Oscar for her acting. However, she was nominated but didn't win.

Even Daniel Craig also acted so naturally. When Daniel acted in his first James Bond movie, I didn't like him, because of his aged look and just average height. But later on he developed so much, and attracted with his unique acting stills. He became one of my favorite Hollywood actor after watching this movie.

I don't feel any scenes in this movie are done with out purpose. All scenes are important and move movie forward.

When this movie first released, I didn't thought of watching it because of the Rooney getup on movie posters. Her getup is really disturbing and feels as the movie is on drug addicts or something. Later on when I heard this is actually murder mystery story then I thought of watching it. I'm still struggling to understand the American accent fully though I would have watched hundreds of Hollywood movies, and I don't really like to miss even a dialog while watching the movie, so I watch movies with always subtitles on so that I don't miss any dialogue. I glad even this movie watched on  blu-ray player with subtitles on.

One of the best part in this movie is, after one scene you feel like the movie is ended, when actually there is still 10 or 15 minutes movie is left, and suspense is not revealed yet.

This movie won the Oscar award in Editing, and you really see that, the brilliance of editing and worth giving award.

I give 9 out of 10 for this movie.