The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2011 - ★★★★½

Part four of Fincher homework

"May I kill him?"

Incomparable title sequence.

Fincher's films essentially breakdown into two camps for me. Movies where he read a story he's really excited to share with me using a camera. And smothering visions of the malcontent of man and his various sins. Then illustrating how a redeemable man or woman can deliver us from this event(s) through virtuousness although these heroes are not without sins themselves. (Besides The Social Network, that's just a movie about us being f**ked.) This film however straddles both those lines.

His depiction of sexuality though cursory so far is distinct. It is often nonjudgmental, all judgement of the sexual behavior of characters comes from the characters in the piece, he doesn't shoot even the most grotesque rape scene...

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