Words Taste Like Peaches




Lisa, raised in Las Vegas, studied Film and Broadcasting in college, currently unemployed and thus spends too much time watching TV (for ~research) and hanging out on the internet.

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Fincher’s Lisbeth is not Larsson’s. She is sexualized, softened, romanticized, and less empowered. Whether he intended this or not, it’s what countless critics see in the film; they don’t mind it – in fact most like it – but they’ve recognized it and have written about it.

There seems to be a relief that Mara’s Salander is a more relatable person, that classic “female” tropes like softness and vulnerability are visible. It speaks to society’s overwhelming discomfort with the unclassifiable, whether it’s a person’s sexuality, a terrible people who does good things, or the motivations of a young woman who has been horrifically mistreated, mentally and physically, for decades.

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Monika Bartyzek, Girls on Film: Softening and Sexualizing Lisbeth Salander [x] (via congratu-welldone)

#this article is ridiculous #did this person even read the books #lisbeth does have many moments of sweetness and vunerabilty in the novels #there’s nothing wrong with that it doesn’t make her any less strong #why do softness and vulnerability have to be tropes? can they not just be aspects of a person? #AND THE FINAL SCENE #the final scene is almost exactly like the end of the book! #this person really makes it out like lisbeth should be a cold unfeeling robot #and thats the only way she can be seen as a strong woman #and she can’t be sexy #or have a complex mind #i really hate this article if you haven’t noticed #the movie is not without it’s many faults but this is pretty much all bullshit

(via charethcutestory)

#i know that gwtdt can be problematic but this dumb #i hate that this person is saying that vulnerability = female = bad #her vulnerability isn’t a female trait #it’s a human one #wtf

(via thequietworld)



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    gonna have to agree with the article here and NOT the tags. yeesh. i honestly think that lisbeth is vulnerable at times...
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    #this article is ridiculous #did this person even read the books #lisbeth does have many moments of sweetness and...