Secret Intelligence Service Trains Young People to Use Their Minds And Bodies as Weapons

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00:00Welcome back to Movie Recaps. Today I will show you an action, drama, thriller film from 2018,

00:05titled Red Sparrow. Spoilers ahead. Watch out and take care.

00:10The story begins by jumping back and forth between the lives of our two protagonists in Russia.

00:15First, there is Dominika Yugorova, a famous ballerina that is in charge of taking care of

00:19her sick mom. After a visit to the doctor, Dominika leaves her mother with a caretaker

00:24so she can go to work. Once in the theater, she changes and puts on makeup before going to meet

00:28the guests, which include her uncle Ivan Ogorov, deputy director of Russian Secret Service.

00:33He introduces her to Dmitry Ustinov, a Russian gangster that asks her for a picture and takes

00:37the chance to touch her improperly. Moments later, the play begins and Dominika is dancing as

00:42wonderfully as ever when suddenly, his dancing partner jumps and lands on her leg, breaking it.

00:47Dominika is immediately taken to have surgery. The other character we follow is Nate Nash,

00:52a CIA agent, who is taking a phone call from an automatic caller that dictates some words to him.

00:56He uses those words to decode the address of a meeting location, and he takes his gun with him

01:01before leaving. The chosen spot for the secret meeting is the park at night, and when he arrives

01:05there, he notices he's being followed by a car. A mysterious man, codename Marble, is walking

01:11towards him as well, and Nate hands him something as they cross each other on the road before they

01:15go on as if nothing happened. The car is still following him, though, so to give the man a chance

01:19to escape, Nate creates a distraction by shooting the floor and starts running away as the car gives him

01:24chase. He reaches town and is surrounded by the police just as he makes it to the American embassy.

01:29Inside, he meets with his bosses, who tell him the asset is safe, but Nate will still be sent back to

01:34the USA for his mistake. The next day, Ivan visits Colonel Zakharov, director of the Secret Service,

01:40in his office, General Vladimir Korchnoy is there as well. They show Ivan a video of Nate's meeting at

01:45the park and mention he's a CIA agent that left the country that morning, but their main interest lies

01:49in the other man and finding out his identity. We cut to Dominika then, who is waking up at the

01:54hospital to find her leg in a metal frame, she starts crying when she realizes she won't be able

01:58to dance again. Three months pass. Dominika, who is still walking with the aid of a cane,

02:04is visited by Ivan. He comments on the fact a replacement for her has already been found and

02:08how the theater had been lending them the apartment and covering her mom's medical expenses,

02:12all that will stop soon now that she doesn't work for them anymore. Ivan says he wants to help her

02:16and asks her to come to him when she's ready, he also leaves an envelope for her before leaving.

02:21Dominika opens the envelope and finds pictures that show her dancing partner has been romantically

02:25involved with her replacement, plus a recording of a conversation between them that implies he

02:29jumped on her on purpose so his girlfriend could take Dominika's place. Later that day,

02:33we find Dominika in the theater, watching her former partner and the new girl practice.

02:38After they're done, they go to the steam room and Dominika follows them, only to find them having

02:42relations. Rage takes over and Dominika starts using her cane to beat them both to the ground

02:47before running away. On the bus home, she sees her hand stained with blood and decides to get off,

02:52stopping by a payphone to report what she did as an accident. When she arrives at her apartment,

02:56she finds her mom on the bathroom floor, the caretaker nowhere in sight, her mom tells her she

03:01didn't come because the theater stopped paying her. Knowing she has no other choice now, Dominika goes

03:06to see her uncle to ask him for help. He accepts as long as she helps him in return with a little case,

03:10the Secret Service wants to know more about Ustinov, whom Dominika had met at the theater.

03:15Ivan wants her to approach him, befriend him and gain his trust using her charms.

03:19Dominika at first refuses, but Ivan wins her over by reminding her how awful state hospitals are and

03:24how he can give her mom the best doctors instead. That very night, Dominika goes to the hotel Ustinov

03:30is staying in, wearing the dress she's been given. She goes to the bar to wait for Ustinov to approach

03:34her first, which he does. Dominika tells him she's come to see him, wanting to feel special again,

03:39so they leave for her room. She asks the guards to give them privacy and Ustinov starts undressing

03:44as soon as his men leave the room, then asks Dominika to do the same. She does so after some

03:49hesitation, and when she comes closer, Ustinov wastes no time in taking advantage of her.

03:53Their intercourse is suddenly interrupted when a man wearing a black helmet appears behind Ustinov

03:58and cuts his throat. The body is thrown on the floor and after asking for silence with a gesture,

04:02the man throws Dominika a coat for her to cover her blood-stained body and takes her out of the room

04:06through a back door. When they make it to the parking lot, he shoots an employee before getting

04:11them on his bike and driving away to an abandoned building. Inside, the man takes off his helmet to

04:16reveal Sergei Matoran, another secret service agent sent by Ivan, who is in another room in the same

04:20building together with Korchnoi, watching Dominika on the security cameras. When Korchnoi mentions she's

04:26a witness and she should be eliminated, Ivan mentions she could be useful. Ivan changes rooms to go see

04:31Dominika, and confesses he did know what would happen in that room and didn't tell her because she

04:35wouldn't have done it if she knew. He makes her an offer then, since she's so good at this,

04:39she can be sent to a special institution to be trained to be an agent. If she refuses,

04:44he won't be able to protect her, so she can only accept. Dominika leaves for the institution a couple

04:48of days later. When she arrives there, she's received by Matron, the headmistress of Sparrow

04:53School. She gives Dominika a fake name to use in the school before taking her to her room.

04:58Classes start soon after that, Matron talks about the modern world being in chaos and how Russia is the

05:03only country willing to make sacrifices to fix it. The students will be trained to be sparrows,

05:08spies who specialized in seduction and psychological manipulation. Dominika and a student named Victor

05:13are called to the front of the class and asked to strip, Victor does so without issues, but Dominika

05:17doesn't dare. Matron scolds her for it. We then cut to Nate, who's been summoned by the CIA's

05:23discipline panel to be informed he'll be suspended for his mistake in Russia and he can't leave the

05:27country. Nate protests because their mole, Marble, has been working with Nate for three years and won't

05:32trust anybody else, but he isn't hurt. Back in the Sparrow School, during a class with Matron,

05:37she tells them they need to be able to identify what their targets want. She puts some videos on

05:41TV for examples for them to work on, the first one Victor guesses wrong and Dominika corrects him,

05:46earning her his dislike. The second is guessed by another female student, who is called to the

05:50front of the class and told she will have to use her mouth on the man from the video, who is brought

05:54into the classroom in cuffs. The girl gets on her knees but is incapable of doing it, she falls to the

05:59floor crying. Matron reminds all the students that they need to learn to trick their bodies and

06:03teaches them some basic seduction tricks. Back in the USA, Nate notices he's being tailed and

06:09informs his superiors of this. He learns that the CIA hasn't heard anything from Marble and he takes

06:13the chance to remind them he will talk if it's Nate that contacts him. They reach a deal, he can't

06:18still go back to Russia, but they can send him to a country nearby so the Russian Secret Service will

06:22know he's around and Marble will resurface. Nate accepts for the team to come with him.

06:26Meanwhile, in the school, the students are asked to give a welcome to a group of soldiers that just

06:31returned home from war. Dominika chooses a young man and takes him to her room where she successfully

06:36gives him a hand. Later that day, Matron and the students watch all the videos of their performances

06:41with the soldiers. Matron tells Dominika her technique was good but she still hasn't learned

06:45to give herself up. After class is over, Dominika goes to the showers, where she's assaulted by Victor.

06:50She defends herself by taking the water tap from the wall and hitting him with it.

06:54In the meantime, Ivan, Korchnoi and Zakharov are discussing the fact Nate has been relocated

06:59to Budapest. They want to do something about it, but they know the president doesn't want

07:02them anything that may come off as antagonistic against the USA. Ivan proposes they give the

07:07mission to someone else. Back in the sparrow school, Matron and a newly arrived Korchnoi

07:12question Dominika for her attack on Victor. Matron thinks Dominika still has potential, Korchnoi asks

07:17for a moment alone with her. After everyone else leaves the room, he questions Dominika again,

07:22and she explains she owes and serves the state, not her classmate. She's allowed to go back to class,

07:27where Matron once again calls her to the front while Korchnoi watches from a security camera.

07:32Dominika is shown a picture of Victor and asked what he wants as he enters the room.

07:36Matron orders her to give him what he wants. Victor asks her to turn around, Dominika refuses and gets

07:41into action, as she undresses, he tells Victor to look at only her and once she's completely naked,

07:46she sits on the table with her legs open, egging him on to take her. Victor can't get it up and

07:50runs away when she teases him for it. Then Dominika answers Matron's question, what he wants

07:55is power. Korchnoi is impressed. Moments later, Matron meets with Dominika in private again and

08:00tells her she'll be sent back to Moscow. Days later, while reuniting with her mom at their place,

08:05Dominika receives a call that tells her to meet Ivan at a restaurant. When she makes it there,

08:10she sits with him and he explains her next mission. She'll be sent to Budapest to befriend

08:14Nate and gain his trust so she can learn the identity of their mole. He gives her a new passport

08:18and documents with a new name. Dominika leaves without eating. She makes it to Budapest a couple

08:23of days later, and goes to stay at an apartment she'll share with a fellow Sparrow Marta. Later

08:28that day, she meets with her new boss, Station Chief Maxim Volontov, and asks him for some information

08:33on Nate. Afterward, she follows Nate around to learn his routine. The next day, Dominika starts going

08:39to the same swimming pool as Nate, and lets him go to her when they leave the building. They chit-chat a

08:43bit but Dominika plays hard to get, she also makes up a story about being a translator for the embassy.

08:48The following day, however, she doesn't find Nate at the pool, and the receptionist tells her her

08:52ID is gone missing. Turns out, Nate already knows she isn't what she says. We cut to him explaining

08:58to his superiors that she's been using many names and making the connection to Ivan. He thinks she's

09:03valuable and that her using her real name is a provocation. After some hesitation, his superiors

09:08allow him to get closer to her to gather intel. After going to Volontov to report her progress and

09:13ask for an embassy pass, Dominika visits the embassy and sees Marta chatting with Stephanie

09:17Boucher, an American politician. Nate interrupts her staring to chat, admitting he was the one to

09:22steal her ID from the pool, and asks her out to dinner the next day at 8. Dominika accepts before

09:27leaving. Back in her apartment, Dominika searches Marta's room and discovers she's been buying

09:31intelligence from Boucher. Marta returns home then, but doesn't catch her in the act. She gives Dominika

09:36a copy of the report Volontov sent to Moscow, apparently Dominika has made an enemy. The

09:41next day after work, she follows Volontov into a bar and asks him to buy her time with

09:45a better report, then provokes him into punching her by making fun of his small member. His

09:50violence is now on the security cameras and Dominika tells him he'll write a better report

09:53or she'll take the recording to the police. While all this is happening, Nate is alone in

09:58a restaurant, waiting for his date. Thinking he's been stood up, he leaves the place, but Dominika

10:03is following him closely. Back in his apartment, Nate receives another coded message on the

10:07phone that he quickly writes down and deciphers, it says Vienna. He's about to leave when a

10:11crying Dominika rings his bell, he allows her to come in. While sharing some whiskey, Dominika

10:16tells him his boss assaulted him. When Nate asks her how she knows where he lives, she raises

10:21the volume of the TV so they can't be heard. Dominika asks him what happened in that park in

10:25Russia and kisses him after he tells her. Nate tells her to go home and figure out what

10:29she wants. The next day, Ivan visits Dominika before leaving for Vienna. He asks about her

10:35progress with Nate since their superiors are getting impatient. To buy time, she lies and tells

10:39him she's also working with Marta on her voucher case, but she'll need more money. Ivan accepts and

10:44asks for his coat to leave, Dominika gets it for him but not without secretly taking a peek at his

10:48passport. After he's gone, Marta approaches Dominika with her gun, she overhead the lie and is angry

10:54because the voucher case is supposed to be only hers. Dominika promises she'll give her all the

10:58credit and more money, she just lied for the extra time. Marta only accepts because she has no other

11:03choice. Later on, Dominika goes to Vienna and opens a bank account there while Marta visits Volontov

11:09to tell him she knows how to get rid of Dominika. Dominika returns to her place that night and finds

11:14Marta murdered in the bathtub. Suddenly, Sergei appears behind her and grabs her by the neck to

11:18pass on a warning, this is what happens to those that share secrets. He also tells her to call the

11:23police before he disappears. We cut to Nate there, who is reporting to his superiors about having met

11:28with Marble in Vienna. Marble has given him some files confirming Dominika is a sparrow, and that

11:33makes Nate think she's even more recruitable. Meanwhile, Dominika is being interrogated by the

11:37police, but she tells them nothing. When she leaves the precinct, she finds Nate outside waiting for

11:42her. They go back to his place, where he confesses he knows she's a sparrow. Dominika tells him her story

11:48in return, putting emphasis on the fact she only cares about her mother's well-being. Nate asks her

11:53to be a double agent for him, promising her protection, she replies she needs to sleep.

11:57He gives her his room. Later in the night, she leaves the room and joins Nate on the touch.

12:02After asking if she can trust him and getting a positive answer, she makes love to him.

12:06The next morning, after she confirms she accepts his deal, Dominika goes back to her routine,

12:10writes a fake report on Nate saying she has him in her pocket and then returns to her place to wait

12:14for his signal, which is a simple phone call that plays her favorite song. Dominika meets with Nate's

12:19superiors and is put through a liar detector test to see if she can be trusted. When they accept her,

12:24she asks for money. They laugh at her, but they change their minds when she tells them she can

12:28give them voucher. The following Friday, the whole team flies to London to meet with voucher.

12:33Dominika stays in a special hotel room the CIA prepared for her with security cameras to monitor

12:38her and a set of discs hidden under a desk to change for the real ones later. Moments later,

12:42while she's at the bar waiting for voucher, he's surprised by the sudden appearance of

12:46Volontov who supposedly wants to help. Dominika sends him to her room, otherwise his presence

12:51will scare voucher off. Voucher arrives soon afterward and Dominika goes to her, explaining

12:55Marta sent her. Voucher doesn't like this change and is about to leave, but Dominika convinces her to

13:00stay when she threatens her with some dangerous pictures and mentions the money. Both women go to

13:04Dominika's room where Volontov is waiting. Voucher gives her the discs in exchange for the money,

13:09and Dominika pretends to take the discs to her computer to check their reel when she's

13:13actually trading them with the CIA's. Dominika and Volontov leave then after telling Voucher to

13:17wait an hour to leave too, but Voucher is anxious and drunk so she leaves soon after. When she makes

13:22it to the street, she notices she's being followed and gets scared, so she throws the money in a trash

13:27can and crosses the street where a truck hits and kills her. Dominika is in a car with Volontov when

13:31this happens, and he quickly gets the news on the phone. He tells Dominika they've been given orders to

13:36return to Moscow immediately and takes her passport. When they make it to Moscow, Ivan takes the discs

13:41from Volontov before arresting him. Voucher and Dominika are under suspicion of having helped the

13:46Americans. When asked about it, she denies it, so she starts being tortured in different ways for the

13:51real answer, but she doesn't give in. They even show her a video of how Volontov was shot for lying, but when

13:57the interrogator points at her head and she lies again, nothing happens. Ivan takes over then, and

14:02Dominika manages to manipulate him into protecting her. She's allowed to return home, but when she

14:07gets there, she feels so dirty she doesn't let her mom hug her. After a difficult meeting with

14:11Korchnoy and Zakharov, Ivan returns to his apartment, where Dominika is waiting. He tells her they've

14:16granted her request to let her keep working on Nate, she kisses him before leaving. Dominika returns to

14:22Budapest and meets with Nate. They go to his apartment, where he expresses his suspicions of her

14:26quick release. Dominika convinces him to relocate her and her mom to America and to give her more money,

14:31he accepts before they make love. In the middle of the night, Dominika wakes up when she hears a

14:36noise, she goes to the kitchen to find Sergei torturing Nate. She pretends to be on his side

14:40at first, even helping him hurt Nate to get the name of the mole. But when Sergei gets distracted,

14:45she hits him back and helps Nate cut the straps tying him to the chair. The three of them get into

14:49a fight that doesn't last long, Sergei slips and Dominika takes the chance to stab him. She wakes up in

14:55the hospital the next day, and leaves her room to have a smoke. She's then approached by Korchnoy,

14:59who reveals himself as Marble. He thinks he'll be caught soon and doesn't want to die in vain,

15:04so he asks Dominika to expose him so she can become a national hero and take his place as a mole.

15:09She doesn't give him a definite answer, but after he leaves, she checks on Nate and leaves as well.

15:14She gives herself up to the police and asks to see the Russian ambassador. When she's taken to him,

15:18she tells him to call Zakharov and inform him she has the name of the mole, which she'll give him in

15:22exchange for her freedom. A meeting to do the exchange is arranged later that night at an airport.

15:27Nate will walk with her to confirm the identity of the mole and she mustn't try to run or she'll be

15:31shot. Nate is angry with her because he thinks she's used him, but she has a surprise, when the

15:36Russians approach them with the mole, they take the bag off his face to reveal it's not Korchnoy,

15:40it's her uncle Ivan, who has been framed thanks to Dominika fabricating evidence since she made it

15:45to Budapest the first time. Nate quickly catches on and confirms Ivan is the mole. After the exchange is

15:50done, Ivan is shot by a Russian sniper and Dominika is taken away on a helicopter. Back in Russia,

15:56she's named a heroine and allowed to have a good life with her mom. The movie ends when she receives

16:01a phone call and the only sound on the line is her favorite song. Make sure to subscribe and turn

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