Martin Gumucio

Lisbeth Salander

We celebrated L’s birtday last weeekend and for the occation we went and saw the terrifying movie Men Who Hate Women. A movie that ranked such international fame that in France it was simply known as “Le Filme”. Traditionally I have a great dislike for Swedish cinema. The Swedish Movie Institute have a tendency to always give the same people money, so after a while you grow sick of seing the same actors over and over. Not to mention the way Swedish directors want to show “real life”. They want to tell you how it really is, show you the dirty side of things and make you aware, and meanwhile they are giving you and themselves the finger. It’s boring, so boring.

So refreshing then to see this : The story was great,  The action scenes are great, the dialogue is great, the characters are great. The actors.. are mostly the old gang as ever, but they pull it off.  It’s a great movie, and it’s Swedish!

I have  particular piece of trivia about this movie I want to share: If you plan to see the movie don’t worry, its not a spoiler. The female hacker Lisbeth gets her laptop smashed up and has to use the computer at a friend who runs some kind of computer shop in a basement, that really looks more like a garbage dump. That guy exists in real life. You will find him in the yellow pages under “Mac Akuten” or something like that. He works in Vasastan in Stockholm and is well worth a visit, if only for anthropological reasons.