In the espionage thriller Red Sparrow, Jennifer Lawrence plays an ice-cold contract killer. You can stream this fearless and thrilling movie right now with an Amazon Prime subscription.
In addition to Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games films, Jennifer Lawrence has taken on some courageous and unusual roles in recent years. One of her most fearless performances is in the intense espionage action thriller Red Sparrow from 2018. The blockbuster from The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence is currently streaming on Amazon Prime and is definitely worth watching.
Jennifer Lawrence thriller on Amazon Prime: This is the plot of Red Sparrow
As a young prima ballerina, Lawrence’s character Dominika was able to earn a living and cover the medical expenses of her seriously ill mother at the renowned Bolshoi Theater. However, after a brutal accident, her career is over.
Her uncle finally offers her the opportunity to be trained as a Russian secret agent. Her mission later involves learning the identity of an American mole within Russian intelligence from CIA agent Nathaniel Nash (Joel Edgerton).
Watch the German trailer for Red Sparrow here:
Red Sparrow is brutal body cinema with a fearless Jennifer Lawrence
The inexperienced protagonist’s first assignment escalates extremely in Red Sparrow. In the process, Jennifer Lawrence’s character is raped and the blood of the politician she is supposed to seduce and deceive pours over her abused body. Francis Lawrence stages his film in an astonishingly brutal way, generally as body cinema, which is already extremely radical and hard-hitting in these early scenes.
Red Sparrow is about the progressive dehumanization and splitting of one’s personality. Above all, the bodies of female spies become their most important weapon, with the help of explicit poses, provocative clothing, enticing looks and carefully chosen words, the perfect seduction succeeds.
Even if Red Sparrow sometimes gets lost in genre clichés over the 140 minutes, which are a bit too long, the provocative style and fearless performance of Jennifer Lawrence make the film more than enough explosive material to keep you watching. Beneath the espionage thriller surface, abysses lurk in what feels like every scene, while (sexual) positions of power are constantly changing.
In addition, the director creates a dark, merciless world that holds nothing but physical humiliation, pain or even death for agents. How Jennifer Lawrence’s Dominika, who in a sense has to prostitute herself and suffer through repulsive torture methods and extreme torments, fights her way back to her personality is the thrilling core of Red Sparrow.
