I watched and loved all three Swedish films. These are intensely and disturbingly violent, and the intensity is part what made them work. These are an (possibly only mild) exaggeration of very common attitudes taken to their extreme. But Lisbet’s rage is real, earned, and demands to be understood on its own terms.

The intensity and casual brutality of the violence is precisely the point and needs to be understood as such. Things like this do happen, and people lose trust as a result.

I highly recommend the Swedish films if you can tolerate very stark and brutal violence. I’ve been leery of seeing the American film precisely because I loved the Swedish versions so much; I fear it will pull back too far in the name of sensitivity to American audiences and undercut an extraordinarily powerful story.

I’ll wait for it on Netflix.

I knew there was something bothering me about that movie, esp the ending (which I won’t give away here), but seeing the actual name of the book and seeing your perspective on it opened my eyes and gave me a brand new perspective on what the movie meant and what it means in the context of our world. And, on a different note, it makes me see my friends comments on the movie in an entirely different light as well (although, suffice it to say, I was already aware of the rampant misogyny in their statements…I’m also now aware that they completely missed the point of the movie).

I personally despise misogyny (and any form of sexism, really). We are all people, regardless of gender differences, or any other differences real or imagined that people can perceive..

Th., yes, it was. Unfortunately, I’ve heard women say that and worse.

Cale’s post was one of the most unapologetically misogynistic things I’ve ever read. Or, more specifically, his comments thereon.

May I repost this post in my blog??????????

*hug*