For those who may not be up to date (spoilers below), Lisbeth spends most of the movie in the hospital recovering from the devastating injuries inflicted upon her by her father and half-brother (Great family!) While she is recovering, team Lisbeth — including Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist)– are working their butts off to figure out how to get her out of the trouble she’s been in since book and film 1. The thing about why people are so dedicated to helping Lisbeth is because she is the pawn at the center of major societal corruption and this enrages the do-gooding reporter Mikael Blomkvist. And he’s also a bit enamored of her and her I don’t give a shot about anyone attitude. She is impressively nonplussed.There is no Hollywood ending. You get the sense that tomorrow she will be the same stubborn, difficult young woman. She doesn’t give a shit what people think of her and that’s so refreshing.
My favorite scene is when she shows up in court all punked out. When she walked in with her amazing mohawk she was saying to everyone affiliated with the bogus charges that they couldn’t touch her. She was armored up against the system that has let her down time after time.
I am sad to see Rapace’s Lisbeth go. I only hope the Hollywood version of Lisbeth doesn’t dilute all the things that make Rapace’s Lisbeth so amazing. We will soon see. I sure will be there.
