I watched this yesterday and struggled to know what the story was all about.
At least in Bond they tell him what he has to do and the film follows that story arc. This was just confusing. Something about some discs? The contents of which would threaten US security? Help!
She was to fall in love and escape the people who kept her down. You know, chick stuff..
shareHer mission was to cozy up to the CIA agent played by Joel Edgerton in order to find out the identity of the mole that the CIA had inside Russian intelligence. She then made a deal with the CIA, and to prove she was really on their side she sabotaged the transaction where Mary-Louise Parker wanted to sell American defence secrets to the Russians (the floppy disks). The Russians then suspected her of being a traitor and tried to have her killed, but she survived. Then the mole (Jeremy Irons) revealed himself to her and told her to give his name to her bosses, so that she would establish her credentials with Russian intelligence as a reliable agent and be able to continue to supply information to the Americans. Instead of giving him up, she incriminates her uncle as the mole. Her uncle (who had practically forced her to become a spy) is killed and she becomes a hero to her bosses in Russian intelligence, while remaining a double agent.
shareI still don't get the purpose of the floppy disks. Was this supposed to be 1986?
shareThat had me baffled as well - so much so that I started a thread about it. Another user was kind enough to post a link to the director's explanation for the floppy disks.
https://www.inverse.com/article/41844-red-sparrow-floppy-disks-scene-jennifer-lawrence
I am not convinced.
Seems shady to me. I don't think the director even knew what he was doing. That whole scene should have been cut or rewritten with a different kind of storage device.
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