Wednesday, September 08, 2021
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
- Commentary: With this movie, the last of the Lisbeth Salander Millenium Trilogy, Lisbeth Salander clearly enters super-hero status, at least in my opinion.
What are her super powers? Her intellect, her anger and her personal agency.
Yes, it takes a village, as a prominent, actual super-villian of our own time was fond of saying, while showing that she not only did not believe in the village, she abhorred the village residents and was all too eager to spit on them and relegate them to classless status.
Lisbeth Salander was not particularly fond of the residents of the village, either, but, while she is, essentially, fond of no one, she was willing, in this particular trilogic adventure, to work with them, those, at least, who she felt could be trusted, to secure her freedom and, often, theirs. She was also more than willing to condemn and seek the incarceration or death of those who hated the villagers and worked against them. Thus, she was trusted by all who sought to help her or simply noticed her on the street and only begrudgingly and fearfully villified by those who sought her destruction.
Excellent trilogy of movies about a powerful, yet oblique, woman. Most women are oblique, unfortunately. Their societies tend to make them so. All women, however, are powerful, in part because of their obliquity.
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Noomi Rapace Lisbeth Salander Michael Nyqvist Mikael Blomkvist Lena Endre Erika Berger Annika Hallin Annika Giannini Sofia Ledarp Malin Eriksson Jacob Ericksson Christer Malm Georgi Staykov Alexander Zalachenko Aksel Morisse Dr. Jonasson
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 2009
Directed by Daniel Alfredson.
Labels: action3, detective1, neo-noirB, revenge1, super-hero2, suspense3, thriller2, violence4, women's-movie2
