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How much do aesthetic choices matter?

Spoiler alert for those who think you can discuss a film without giving anything away. There are 2 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo movies. They're both based on a book. One movie is realistic, in a foreign language. Director is Danish, but it lists it as a Swedish movie on IMBd. It was filmed in Spain and Sweden. The Hollywood version used Switzerland, Norway and Sweden. The second one is a Hollywood slick remake. It almost feels like a magical realism version versus a realism version. IMBd gives the Danish version a 7.8. The slick Hollywood ones gets a 7.8 too. We want realism and we want magic. A 4th medium, aural, I heard the book on tape while driving to work. And it's in translation, the story has made one more transformation. So the 4 different versions, text, audio book, movie and movie, and in a way the same story.  I see different choices, dialogue, ways of visualizing text into 2 different violence incidents in the subway, two different rape scenes, two different sex...