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(Men Who Hate Women). With many characters who seem more like props than people, the story is about two juvenile females emerging into adulthood 40 years apart. Both have been brutalized: raped, beaten, abhorred. One has been missing since 1966. The other—in her 20s in 2007—has been assessed as mentally incompetent to manage her own affairs and has a state-appointed guardian. The film is not about men who hate but about women who are loathed. Based on the late Stieg Larsson’s mystery novels, the Millennium Trilogy films expose troubling themes in contemporary Swedish culture, including classism, sexism, and lingering Nazism (Dargis, 2010). A delicate, blond young woman, Harriet Vanger, was repeatedly beaten and raped by her Nazi-sympathizing father in the 1960s. He bragged to her that he raped and murdered women, and he taught her brother to rape her and to murder other women without being caught. When her father was in an inebriated rage, Harriet pushed him away. Upon falling backward and into the lake near their family home, he drowned. Because her act of self-defense could free her from him, Harriet failed to call for help