The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009 film)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Swedish Mn som hatar kvinnor literally Men who hate women is a 2009 Swedish drama thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Swedish authorjournalist Stieg Larsson. It is the first book in the trilogy known as the Millennium series, published in Sweden in 2005. By August 2009, it had been sold tocountries outside Scandinavia and had been seen by more thanmillion people in the countries where it was already released. Directed by Niels Arden Oplev, the film stars Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace.

Salander, who was ruled mentally incompetent as a child, is appointed a new legal guardian, Nils Bjurman, after her previous guardian suffers a stroke. Bjurman, a sexual sadist, forces Salander to perform fellatio on him in return for the money she needs to buy a new computer he withholds the full amount she has requested. At her next meeting with Bjurman, he beats and rapes her. Having used a hidden camera to record Bjurman raping her, Salander returns to take her revenge, torturing and threatening to ruin him unless he gives her full control of her life and finances. She then uses a tattoo gun to brand Bjurmans abdomen with the message I am a sadist pig and a rapist.Blomkvist moves to a cottage on the Vanger estate and meets the Vanger family, including Harriets brother Martin and cousin Cecilia. Inside Harriets diary, he finds a list of five names alongside what might appear to be phone numbers. He visits retired police inspector Morell, who informs him that his investigation team had been unable to decipher them. After viewing photographs taken during the Childrens Day parade, Blomkvist sees Harriets facial expression change suddenly just before she leaves and, after obtaining photographs taken from the same side of the street as her, comes to believe that Harriet may have seen her murderer that day. ........

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