At first, everything seems clear from the trailer – here you are slim Charlize Theron, killing hand to hand a dozen of men-squad; here there are scenes of smoking and drinking alcohol, colored with tantalizing vision and elevated halo of the very same heroine; a “crux of the biscuit” – is explicitly announced lesbian line. What else does one need to film an absolutely degenerative movie, you may ask? But authors bent their fantasy and tried wholeheartedly.
Plot
Year 1989, the reunion of FRG and GDR, and exactly this time in East Berlin arrives Loraine – a British secret service woman (in reality the American one, and also a double agent in the Soviet secret service). She has a new mission, which she has inherited from the murdered colleague and pluralistically her ex. Straight after her arrival the heroine gets into a whirl of activity, a spy’s game begins, which, as it usually happens in the American cinematograph, is shown not as a battle of wits, but as an ability to shoot, fight and run away well.
So what the given meal consists of?
Of the unassailable heroine, whom dozens of trained men from different secret services and nationalities can only take the shine off her face, instead she masterfully and cruelly kills everyone in shot, who is standing on her way. We should separately say about how in the film KGB agents are shown – all well-matched beefy, tattooed, with brutish and uncharged with intellect faces. By their behavior – endlessly cruel, aggressive, with criminal habits.
Of propaganda of alcohol and tobacco. Since in the interims between epic scenes of punishment throughout the whole film Charlize Theron manages to pose with a wineglass and a cigarette in hand, a reasonable question arises – how she, smoking so much cigarettes and constantly drinking hard strong “beverages”, has managed to keep proper appearance and, mainly, – excellent physical abilities? It must be superabilities presented here.
Of lesbian line, looking awkwardly in the plot, superfluous and also very unnaturally romanticized. If one tries to peer in motivation and characters’ logic in order to understand how and why relationships began between them – it is unreal; this is the question without an answer. Oh, rather, there is one answer: the authors needed to bring this in the film, just in order this to be there. For the sake of same-sex relationships propaganda (after all if in Disney fairy tales authors have started to implement plot lines with perverts, then movies of category R won’t surely come out without this – an order from above), for the sake of propaganda of vulgarity with the use of explicitly pornographic shots and for the sake of radical feminism promotion. You won’t find here any man, whom you might respect – there is a heroine, men-fools, men- rascals and her affair, naturally, tragically killed by a man.
And the main thing – of aggressive propaganda against Russian people in general and Soviet Union in particular. The authors have wrapped in the picture all crazy stamps about communists and soviet system. In East Berlin everything’s, of course, dirty and grey, barbed wire, patrols, angry military are everywhere etc. The Russians in the film are shown as filthy people, torturing children for fun. This is not a metaphor, but one of the scenes (20th minute), where a Russian spy beats a teenager to death. The logic and motivation of his act are absurd, since the interested question he has asked to the rest of teens already after the death of their mate. It is normal and adequate policy – to bring up patriotism in its audience through cinematograph. But the US does not raise patriots on historical examples of its achievements. Hollywood engrains the Americans the ideology of chosenness, implementing “pseudo patriotism”, based on the hate towards the rest of nations. The authors of the film through the eyes of Lorain hate everyone – the British, the Germans, the French, but mostly the Russians.
In the finale the main heroine victoriously says the following phrase:
– I made everything to destroy your regime!
Of course, meaning USSR.