The poster is awful in so many ways. Craig looks more like evil personified than Mikael Blomkvist but why is
he wearing
two layers of clothing while Mara wears nothing? Why does he appear to be protecting
her when it's Salander who saves Blomkvist? Who wrote the horrid text and what the hell does it mean? Salander's unwavering sense of justice may qualify as vigilantism but the women for whom she seeks justice have been failed by the system and everyone else.
This poster is a shameful distortion of the book and more important, it is a perfect example of how feminism has been distorted and coopted by Madison Avenue, Hollywood and the rest of corporate America.
I don't believe for a minute that feminism, with all it's imperfections, was in any way about freeing women to
choose to be exploited, to
choose to dress like sexual objects or streetwalkers, to
choose to emulate the worst behaviors of men.
