Saturday, August 4, 2012

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

The collaboration between Trent Reznor (the creator of Nine Inch Nails) and David Fincher started about two years ago when the Trent and Atticus Ross composed and recorded the soundtrack for The Social Network. This worked so well that the following year, the two continued to supply soundtracks for Fincher as in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Although this is a cover song, IMHO Trent Reznor has managed to completely change the feel of the original song.  I'm not a fan of covers (most of the times I prefer the original song), this one really stirs something in me. With it's accelerated pace, it reminds me of Run Like Hell, but this is different: despair and other NIN-like feelings most certainly has something to do with it.



Unfortunately, the movie isn't as great as the soundtrack is. It could have been a great movie, but David Fincher certainly blew it off in the last part of the movie. The so called "rhythm" of the movie is at least one of the mistakes done here.



An article about the soundtrack from The Social Network will follow.