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Red Sparrow (2018)

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Red Sparrow (2018)

Overview

Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.


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Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional

Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Negative

Viewer Rating
5.7

Overview

Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Traditional

Primary

The film critiques the dehumanizing and exploitative nature of state intelligence agencies, particularly the Russian SVR, but its narrative focuses on an individual's cunning and survival within this brutal system rather than advocating for broader systemic political change, leading to a neutral rating.

The movie features traditional casting with a predominantly white cast, aligning with its setting and source material without intentional race or gender swaps. Its narrative, while exploring themes of agency and survival within a harsh system, does not explicitly critique traditional identities or center DEI themes.

Secondary

The film features same-sex sexual acts primarily as tools of manipulation, coercion, and degradation within a brutal spy training program. These encounters are not presented as expressions of genuine LGBTQ+ identity or relationships, but rather as elements contributing to the dehumanizing nature of the protagonist's experiences. The overall portrayal is problematic due to this transactional and exploitative context.

The film "Red Sparrow" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes within its narrative. The plot focuses on espionage, manipulation, and the training of a 'sparrow' agent, without engaging with transgender identity in any capacity.

The film primarily focuses on psychological manipulation, espionage, and seduction rather than direct physical combat. While the protagonist, Dominika Egorova, faces male adversaries and achieves her objectives, her victories are not through close-quarters physical fights against one or more male opponents.

The film "Red Sparrow" is an adaptation of Jason Matthews' novel. All major characters, including Dominika Egorova and Nate Nash, retain their established genders from the source material in the film adaptation. No character's gender was changed from the book to the screen.

The film is an adaptation of a novel featuring primarily Russian and American characters. The on-screen portrayals of all major characters align with their implied or explicit racial descriptions in the source material, with no instances of a character established as one race being depicted as another.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

5.7

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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6.6
The Movie Database logo
6.5

Critic Ratings

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4.5
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5.3

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