“May I kill him?” The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2011 A movie like this may as well be a novel, or a serial on tv, or an opera. Or whatever. Nothing in it insists on being filmic. Nothing about it expresses idea of cinema. It’s just a string of popular ideas (the private eye, the Bible-dropping killer, the surveillance, the costumes) and a long long tale. David Fincher is good at making you care about his indifference.  A character like TGWTDT (eponymous!) deserves her own history, as she’s not just another private eye. She’s the James Bond for all the hurt, cool hipsters. Richly complex yet one-layer deep. Spending the time in the theatre, I phased in and out of caring deeply about what was about to happen and boredom - and whatever is in between. A big repeating cycle through all those things.  When a question like the above came up, I realized she was asking us.  And at that point, it didn’t make a difference. We already knew he was gonna die.

“May I kill him?”

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2011

A movie like this may as well be a novel, or a serial on tv, or an opera. Or whatever. Nothing in it insists on being filmic. Nothing about it expresses idea of cinema. It’s just a string of popular ideas (the private eye, the Bible-dropping killer, the surveillance, the costumes) and a long long tale.

David Fincher is good at making you care about his indifference. 

A character like TGWTDT (eponymous!) deserves her own history, as she’s not just another private eye. She’s the James Bond for all the hurt, cool hipsters. Richly complex yet one-layer deep.

Spending the time in the theatre, I phased in and out of caring deeply about what was about to happen and boredom - and whatever is in between. A big repeating cycle through all those things. 

When a question like the above came up, I realized she was asking us. 

And at that point, it didn’t make a difference. We already knew he was gonna die.