With the international success of Stieg Larsson’sMillennium trilogy, it was only a matter of time before the books were turned to film. Director, Niels Arden Oplev, and screenwriters Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg, were the team to take it on, and choosing the fidelity approach to adaptation, have produced a gripping thriller, which continues to grip from start until finish, leaving audiences looking forward to the newly released second instalment, The Girl Who Played With Fire.
Dragon Tattoo: Plot Synopsis
The story centres on two main protagonists; disgraced investigative journalist, Mikael Blomqvist (Michael Nyqvist) and a computer hacker, the somewhat taciturn loner, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace). Despite his name being in disgrace after losing a libel case, Blomqvist is hired to investigate the disappearance, and suspected murder of a young girl, almost fifty years previously, by Henrik Vanger, the wealthy head of the Vanger group.
Lisbeth has originally been hired to track Blomqvist and follow his activities by hacking into his computer; however, in tracking him she starts to believe that he wasn’t guilty of the libellous action that he was charged with, and upon discovering that he’s investigating a new case, decides to anonymously tip him in the right direction. However, Blomqvist does a little rummaging of his own and tracks Lisbeth down. He makes her an offer to work together, and so they form a investigative team.
When they return back to the cabin that have been the base to Blomqvist’s investigations, they found that someone has broken in and been snooping around. As Blomqvist uncovers more and more about the Vanger family, he discovers that two of the Vanger brothers were Nazi sympathizers, during the war. He begins to suspect them, but as his suspitions rise, it becomes more and more dangerous.
