When I saw the many copies of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo being read on my every subway ride, I knew there was something epochal about it. Eventually, I picked up one and started reading but  I put it down and didn't finished.

Thankfully, the Swedish movie version came out last weekend and I heartily recommend it especially for the striking performance by actress Noomi Rapace who does an uncanny version of her character Lisbeth Salander. The first of three cinematic versions of the Millennium trilogy by the late controversial leftist journalist Stieg Larsson, it grappled with violence against women, Nazi elements in Swedish society and corrupt business practices.