The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 SwedishAmerican psychological thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. This film adaptation was directed by David Fincher and written by Steven Zaillian. Starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, it tells the story of journalist Mikael Blomkvists Daniel Craig investigation to find out what happened to a woman from a wealthy family who disappeared forty years prior. He recruits the help of computer hacker Lisbeth Salander Rooney Mara.
In Stockholm, Sweden, journalist Mikael Blomkvist Daniel Craig, coowner of Millennium magazine, has lost a libel case brought against him by businessman HansErik Wennerstrm Ulf Friberg. Lisbeth Salander Rooney Mara, a brilliant but troubled investigator and hacker, compiles an extensive background check on Blomkvist for business magnate Henrik Vanger Christopher Plummer, who has a special task for him. In exchange for the promise of damning information about Wennerstrm, Blomkvist agrees to investigate the disappearance and assumed murder of Henriks grandniece, Harriet,years ago. After moving to the Vanger familys compound, Blomkvist uncovers a notebook containing a list of names and numbers that no one has been able to decipher.Salander, who is under state legal guardianship due to diagnosed mental incompetency, is appointed a new guardian, lawyer Nils Bjurman Yorick van Wageningen, after her previous guardian Holger Palmgren has a stroke. Bjurman abuses his authority to extort sexual favors from Salander and then rapes her, not realizing she has a hidden video camera in her bag. At their next meeting she stuns him with a stun gun, rapes him with a dildo and marks him as a rapist with a tattoo on his chest and stomach. Using her video recording she threatens blackmail, insisting that he write a glowing progress report and allow her full control of her money. ........
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