OK, let's be completely honest here. The only reason I went to see the US film version of the first installment of Millenium, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, was to destroy the cast and crew here on my blog, insult each and everyone of them and claim the film is just BS.

Because I'm such a purist when it comes to fiction, I wouldn't have stood some diluted, bubble-gummed version of such a dark, dark story, that rang so true both in the books and in the Swedish films.

Well, as it seldom happens, I've been proven wrong. The film is surprisingly good, dark enough, and details are here: it does seem to have been directed in Sweden, all newspapers and pieces in the décor are in Swedish, and most characters have a Eastern Europe accent (quite appreciable). The cast fit the characters better than I would have thought, especially Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander, even though two hours in I still couldn't get past the dyed eyebrows, but that's just a detail and sometimes even I have to make compromises. 

Besides, the film almost respects the book from the first to the last page.

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"Almost", indeed, as somehow, for some completely unfathomable reason, Australia has become London (WTH?) and the 1950's sign if Elvis became a leather jacket, but, well, apart from that most of the film was true to the book. In truth I read the book two years ago or so, so my memory's kind of fuzzy, but nothing, apart from Australia and the jacket, shocked me.

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This is (truly) the good stuff, and I'm a very, very exigent person when it comes to book adaptations.

Another track that simply amazes me is Alicia Keys' Empire State of Mind part 2. I never really was a fan of hers, but this video is definitely making a good case for me to change my mind. 

I (really) like JB's music. And I'm not ashamed of admitting it, even though I'm waaaayyyy past his marketing target.

He does have a talent for all things musical, and the songs are punchy and reminiscent of a time when a single decision about any subject was a matter of life and death.

When I listen to Justin Bieber, I do feel old, or rather wiser, because when you grow past adolescence you learn perspective and you get to see a bigger picture. He isn't there yet and these lyrics are full of the innocence only a teenager can muster.

When I listen to Justin Bieber, I want to dance and bob my head and sing along. Always a good feeling.

Below the song that makes me wanna dance the most:

I also got unexpectedly touched by his biographic movie Never Say Never. I didn't think he was so likeable and a good person before that, in the sense that he appeared to me as a laid back show-off, but he doesn't seem to actually be that. He's extremely young, but has gone through some stuff and that render him more mature than he appears to be.

To be clear, I'm not trying to convince anyone here, but just give his movie a chance and perhaps you'll see and become a Belieber.