Just a musing on why Lisbeth chose to look the way she does.
A Pause for Reflection
That rapist pig had asked her if she thought her 'look' was attractive. Lisbeth Salander had never done anything with the intent of adding to her sexual appeal. She wasn't interested in being appealing. She wasn't interested in being cool. She was perfectly aware of how people reacted to the way she looked, but it just didn't come into her equation of things that mattered.
She did things to her body because it was how she felt. She damaged her skin with piercings because she felt damaged. And the ink…well sometimes she felt like a dragon or a wasp. And her face... One time she drew huge black circles around her eyes with eyeliner and looking in the mirror decided she felt that way. And then there's the hair. It was long at one point in her life and at some point she just started cutting it off. It might have been after having sex for the first time or the first time she smoked marijuana. But she just kept cutting until she felt like herself again. And ever since she would take a scissor to her hair when it felt right. She knew what normal people considered a regular haircut but for her weird uneven short bangs and little extra bits hanging down the sides of her face seemed normal.
It was only when she looked in the mirror and could see herself in that image, that she felt satisfied and ready to face the day.
Now the strange part was the way he never noticed. Or if he did notice he didn't care. Palgrem and Armansky, the two most bearable people in her life, would always flinch a little bit as she appeared with her latest fashion choice. Whether it was a Mohawk or a new piercing or tattoo they always grimaced a little bit as they saw it. With him it was a complete non reaction. Nothing seemed to faze him about her. He never twitched about her outfits or her attitude or tried to treat her like she was stupid…he even looked at her and called her beautiful…maybe that's why she decided to sleep with him…and why she decided she felt something bordering on like for him. Maybe…Lisbeth was never one for self analysis.
There will be more of these most likely. Saw the movie twice and still cant shake it. Dont know if all these will be names after tracks on the soundtrack