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Surely the most ungrateful character in film history (spoilers)


So let me get this straight, Blomquivst risks his life, the life of his colleagues and his magazine to prove Lisebeth's innocence and she can't even be arsed to say thank you to him or her lawyer??? Blomquivst risked everything, went above and beyond the call of duty to save her and she skulks off without a bye or leave?

Possibly the least sympathetic character I've seen in film. It must be a family trait as her half brother is probably the least impressive villain I've ever seen in film either, he has all the on screen charisma of a wet lettuce...

It ruins a reasonably good film...

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Lisbeth is damaged and has a massive emotional wall around her. Or is the OP too unbelievably stupid to realise this? It's part of her appeal ffs!

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With DARENWHEELER

I very much agree! I was shocked at what an unresponsive b-tch goth girl turned out to be.

But then too the slack unresponsiveness of many of the characters was disconcerting. Is this a strong Scandinavian trait? I know from a relative of mine that Scandinavians can be snippy and sarcastic, but these characters were flabby and wimpy reactively.

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She had slept with him in book one on the island. Later back home she bought him an expensive collectable but then saw he was having an affair with Erika, a married woman. She got so bent out of shape she threw the present in a trash container and left for a long time.

The person she showed the most gratitude towards was her first guardian who let her lead her own life and had planned to ask for her to regain her civil rights.

When she found he was in a state nursing home, she hired the best specialists and care givers available to help him regain his health after a stroke. In effect, a blank check.

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In the version I saw, she DID thank him in the end.


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I am sure Elisabeth is eternally grateful to Michael, but what if she is a lesbian (nothing wrong with that at all), wouldn't she be a little bit hesitant to egg Michael on. Yes, I know she had sex with him earlier, but she did seem to be happier relating to her girlfriend. Actually, I think the ending was perfect, and is much more true to life. There are so many, particularly Hollywood, movies that have a happy ending. I'm sorry, I'm not a cynic, but my lifetime experience is that the quintessential Hollywood ending is a rarity in real life.

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For people who actually read the book, she is described as having ASPERGER'S SYNDROME. She clearly has morals and a strong sense of justice, but struggles to express her herself, this has led to her being grossly misunderstood-sometimes by deliberate fraud on the part of 'Sapo' and Teleborian-and the authorities who should have been looking out for her.

Mikel did what he did for her because it was morally right, his job, and because he felt indebted to her. If it wasn't for her their would be no more millennium!!

She exposed wennerstrom's corrupt organisation, saving Blomkvist magazine and his career.

She saved his life

Helped him uncover the truth around Harriet Vanger

In the first book Dragan shames her for not checking on her guardian Palmgren, after his stroke(assuming that he was dead)when she realizes he was alive, she FEELS guilty and even pays for him to have the best possible care.

When Erica Berger was being terrorized by a stalker, Lisbeth helped identify him

she always pays her debts to people

Does this sound like a character of a selfish and ungrateful person?

I know what its like to be on the Autistic continuum, and to have people make snap judgments about you. She may feel gratitude and responsibility, may not know how to express it!

Its remarks in the last book how indebted she feels to everyone; Mikel, Erica, Anikka, 'plague', millennium magazine ,Dragan Armansky, the police officers-everyone who helped her, and how difficult it was going to be to have to close them out after what they did for her.


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She never says goodbye to anyone. It's just her personality.

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I. Completely. Agree.

I wanted to put on the first movie and STOP IT before the guy started to help her. 3 freaking movies and she hardly says thank you. I don't care if she was a tough girl, or a lesbian, or a butch lesbian, or whatever. After 3 movies I expect more, or at least the kind of goodbye in Rain Man where words don't have to be spoken by all.

Changing the ending might be the only improvement that doing an American version of the film might make.

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They could have at least ended it with her walking out onto a patio and having a smoke as she looks out at the city and doesn't know whether to smile or cry. She could just exhale some smoke and then lower her head. Much better than just closing a door. The audience emotionally assisted and followed her and stuck up for her for 3 movies. I wanted a little bit more. Just a little bit. It isn't like this was just one movie.

The end shot of the city makes no sense at all.

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I heartily agree with the previous statements of GirlWithTheDragonTattoo, Jimmy-7777777 and HelloDollyLlama in their opposition to the OP and their arguments that, due to the abuse Lisbeth has suffered and her condition of Aspergers, she has trouble expressing emotions, but that does not make her ungrateful. I completely agree with GirlWithTheDragonTattoo that Lisbeth is a very admirable character who watches out for those who deserve it and wants revenge on those who abuse. She has high moral standards. And for those reasons, I do NOT feel the disgust that you, pendergast7, expressed towards Lisbeth in your earlier post, because she doesn't say "thank you" very well. But I do have to agree with this statement that I also felt a little cheated at the end and wanted a little bit more. I definitely would have been disgusted by an ending where she and Mikael ride off into the sunset, but I think your proposed ending of her walking out on the balcony for a smoke and not knowing whether to smile or cry would have been more poignant and added that little wrap up I desired rather than the city skyline.

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I'll speak to the OP's second comment, as to the character of the half brother. I agree his character was without character. What was his motive? Why did he feel the need to kill so many people, in the previous film he seems to have a calculated drive, though he has always come off as a dumb brute. This film he has no purpose. What possible motivation does he have to kill Lisbeth? The father knocked his mom up and never raised him as far as one could see, just hired him as a goon. Why so loyal?

He put off too much of a stereotypical dumb muscle man. Why did he never speak? If his character had been completely written out I don't thinknit would have taken one thing from this film.

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Promo, He was a hired gun of Lisbeth's father. In a nutshell, it was a paid job.

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