Thursday, 26 January 2012

The Return of the Pert Knocker

From the fevered imagination of exilestreet at 04:22

3 comments:

  1. Kaggsy27 January 2012 at 04:44

    Well, firstly what's wrong with just being happy with whatever nature gave you? And secondly, I abandoned the second Larsson book when the heroine got her boob job - what a sell out for someone touted as a feminist heroine.

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  2. exilestreet27 January 2012 at 12:24

    2Kaggsy/
    Boy am I hitting some nerves...when I overhear a bunch of 18 year olds talking about getting boob jobs, it just does make me wonder whose ideal of beauty they are referencing in life....and I'm afraid i haven't read the books nor seen the films myself.
    Regards/

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  3. Kaggsy29 January 2012 at 05:41

    I don't hink you've missed an awful lot with the books - the first is overlong and a very good plot gets lost in far too much graphic sexual violence - I won't see the film because of it. The original title in Swedish was I think "Men Who Hate Women" and although it's said by many to be a feminist book with a feminist heroine and apparently making the point that misogyny is endemic in Swedish society, I think the point *isn't* made and the extreme violence is a step too far - it's like modern violent films where the crime committed has to be extreme so that the relatiation can be too. It just repeals, doesn't make any political point and can end up spawning copycats. Where's the humanity gone????

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