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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“Foreign films.” Now, there is a term that in the past has made my eyes glaze over and do a channel change to anything else available, up to and including whatever is listed on the ingredients of the soda I might be drinking or how long it is until Monday morning when I must return to school or work.

Foreign films means to me

1. boring
2. mind-crogglingly boring because the general European sensitivity about things makes me wonder if I really do have common ancestral heritage with them
3. chick flick to the point that there is so much estrogen leaking off the screen that you have to put your feet up on the seat back in front of you
4. PREACHY, generally making me feel like I am cursed simply because hey, I am a guy and I like red meat, American football sometimes, V-8 Detroit muscle cars, and my idea of gun control is being able to hit my target.
5. That I have specific tastes in the women I like – they want to be good moms, are good women and have good hearts; they are intelligent; they are petite and athletic; they are fiery and passionate; they are pretty, all these traits and in that order - makes me a misogynistic, sexist, beetle browed caveman who is incapable of seeing the joys of having a relationship with a sexless, androgynous, perpetually menopausal career woman who knows that motherhood is slavery and that children if you MUST have them, should be limited to no more than 2 and those 2 burdens on her time should be delegated to someone more suited to such distasteful duties and paid appropriately the minimum wage.
6. if only the whole world were gay, then perhaps the viral infection of humanity upon Gaea could be brought into remission
7. I am a complete bastard because I feel like I am entitled to keep and benefit from the fruits of my labors and ideas rather than willingly surrender said profits to those who have made it their mission in life to point out and eliminate those who choose my mission in life, i.e, family, faith, wealth, hopefully eternal life.
8. I did say boring, did I not? Even if I did, it bears repeating.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo shattered all those pre-conceptions of foreign European films and honestly, I don’t know what possessed me to watch it. I confused it with another film I have yet to finish watching and it was a blessed mistake.

While it does fall into the tired old beat on the Nazis, you find yourself only seeing that as a part of the story, not a tirade against the Racism that is specific to the evil white man. Besides, Nazis NEED to be beat on, when you can find one. I think most people forget that we killed most of them in World War II and so the Nazis never got a chance to carry out murder on the scale of the Communists as in Mao’s Cultural Revolution (100 million documented deaths) or Stalin’s purges (8 million Georgians, nearly an entire generation of Russian doctors.) Also, if you count the Socialists and Progressive’s war on the unborn that number is still rising. So, why do we beat on the Nazi’s? Here is why:

1. They were and are some evil bastards and deserve it
2. Too many American and International film makers are Communist, Socialist, and Progressive criminals themselves and so consider themselves above the law
3. As long as people are apeshit over Nazis they will ignore the inroads into our government that the Communists, Socialists, and Progressives are making in terms of treasonously taking away our rights as citizens and turning we Americans into subjects again.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo knows how to kick ass and what justified, righteous payback means and she does not spend time stupidly analyzing her navel over what effect it will have on he conscience or her humanity when confronted with what to do with a two legged rabid dog.

I know I will watch it again.

-Tim, 24th July 2010