Starring alongside Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games films is Jennifer Lawrence has taken on some bold and unusual roles in recent years. One of her most fearless performances is the violent spy action thriller Red Sparrow from 2018. The blockbuster from The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence is currently streaming on Amazon Prime with a subscription and is definitely worth seeing.
Jennifer Lawrence thriller on Amazon Prime: This is the plot of Red Sparrow
As a young prima ballerina Dominika, Lawrence’s main character, has so far been able to earn a living as well as the medical costs for her seriously ill mother at the renowned Bolshoi Theater. However, after a brutal accident, her career is over.
She finally receives an offer from her uncle to train as a Russian secret agent. Their mission later involves getting CIA agent Nathaniel Nash (Joel Edgerton). Identity of an American Mole to find out within the Russian secret service.
Watch the German trailer for Red Sparrow here:
Red Sparrow – Trailer 2 (German) HD
Red Sparrow is brutal physical cinema with a fearless Jennifer Lawrence
Even the first assignment of the still inexperienced protagonist escalates extremely in Red Sparrow. This will Jennifer Lawrence’s character is raped and the blood of the politician she is supposed to seduce and deceive pours out over her abused body. Francis Lawrence generally stages his film astonishingly brutal Physical cinema that comes across as extremely radical and harsh even in these early scenes.
Red Sparrow is about the progressive Dehumanization and separation of one’s own personality. Above all, the bodies of the female spies become the most important weapon so that the perfect seduction can be achieved with the help of clear poses, provocative clothing, tempting looks and precisely chosen words.
Even if Red Sparrow sometimes strays into genre clichés over its 140 minutes, which are a bit too long, the film still offers provocative style and fearless performance from Jennifer Lawrence more than enough fuel to keep you going. Beneath the spy thriller surface, there are abysses lurking in what feels like every scene, while (sexual) positions of power are constantly changing.
In addition, the director creates a dark, merciless world that offers agents nothing but physical humiliation, pain or even death. How Jennifer Lawrence’s Dominika, who has to prostitute herself to a certain extent and endure disgusting torture methods and extreme torment, fights her way back to her personality is the rousing core of Red Sparrow.
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