Compared with the Swedish version released earlier, this time David Fincher chose to bring a lot of details of the original to the screen, even the background environment of the story and the accents of the characters were modified one by one, but what he got was two and a half. Hourly long stories and superficial readings of Nordic culture.

It doesn't seem like the director should be blamed for the seemingly lengthy story. A traditional American crime movie still has David Fincher's quick cuts, gloomy atmosphere control and an equally dark soundtrack, and the original has an excellent suspenseful setting and gory violence. It seems that the key to this problem should be attributed to the writer's two-line narrative skills. But in fact, the whole movie is filled with the shadow of an old director who has been polished and lubricated by the Hollywood system. In The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, completed in 2008, it wasn't difficult to invent the Finch variation. Compared with his previous works, Finch under the system has gradually lost the crime movie plots in "Fight Club" and "Seven Deadly Sins", and even lost the courage to end in "Zodiac", which is also a little reformed. Instead, it started to pose, blending into the Hollywood game rules with a unique personal touch, creating a rounded, full-bodied film. This spirit was continued and fully displayed in 2010's representative work "The Social Network" (The Social Network), or a blowout. At this time, Finch, compared to the well-known genius director with black temperament, can be said to be a big run, but also vague and disturbing. Granted, the weird "peak approach" of the Oscar winning model (the decline of the situation after the masterpiece) isn't necessarily a law that the film industry can verify every time, but unfortunately, from the perspective of the dragon tattooed girl, it seems to have been We have David Fincher fulfilled.

Finch chose the usual metallic photography tone throughout the film, highlighting the personal style of the ancient era after "Dragon" and the cold atmosphere of the film, but it seems that this treatment is slightly saturated and moderate in the film, with Nordic unique cold. Also in the movie, there are some lame car chase scenes that give cinemas a taste of the punch and Daniel Craig's acting style that never seems to get out of "007" mode. Except for the main, offbeat "Dragon" and family crime movie mode, all the movies are like a traditional American crime movie made against the backdrop of ice and snow. In fact, David Fincher has done everything he needs.

It seems that everything is not too much, but what cannot be ignored is that the original work is an extremely stylized Nordic novel, but after the brilliant strokes of Hollywood director "Ghost Talent", it has become not as sharp as domestically produced, and it has become tens of thousands of "Dragon". The entanglement of "Tattoo" fans. The Los Angeles Times review hit the nail on the head: "It's as disappointing as getting the same gift at Christmas."

Of course, we won't wait for the day when Hollywood movies become more European. In fact, assimilating Hollywood and European films is an impossible obligation, or a silly thing to do that would do no good. But one thing that is often criticized in the Hollywood system of borrowing is that it simplifies the background culture of various countries. Even though the filming location of the film was snow-covered Sweden, and even poor Rooney Mara learned English with a Swedish accent, aside from hardware, when it comes to soft civilization, Hollywood screenwriters feel quite powerless. They seem to think that making fun of IKEA (as did Operation Swordfish) and playing Nuenya in the background would bring them closer to the country, but they've never been on the fringes of such a historic, religious, and icy country, the country is buried in icy snow, as cold as crime.

In this way, coupled with 2008's "Blood Invasion", two Swedish films were introduced to Hollywood. After the same smooth assembly line operation, they have become supermarket frozen products with air conditioning like popsicles. I wish the writers would look back and think about what I was doing when they laughed at IKEA again.