The Enthralling "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"

Screen shots from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is among my Top 5 All-Time Favorites:  "The Matrix," "V for Vendetta," "A Beautiful Mind," and "Moneyball" are the others.  

I love so many things about this David Fincher film - its acting, dialogue, intrigue, photography, soundtrack - that I could spend days watching it several times more.  Rooney Mara is super-enthralling in an otherwise super-enthralling film, and warrants a separate article.    

Rooney Mara jumps off the page as Lisbeth. She is what SL wrote. Rapace was great, but Mara IS Salander inside and out.

Absolutely agree! I read the Larsson novel, after watching the Fincher film, and without question Rooney Mara was Lisbeth Salander incarnate. Yet, the Salander I read sounded more social, more "normal," and didn't seem as compelling as the inscrutable, fierce woman whom Mara portrayed. Maybe Mara captured the Salander whom Larsson actually had in mind.