![]() ![]() To make ends meet, she's forced into what amounts to sex trafficking, retraining at the Sparrow School to use her body in service to the State. Anti-heroine Dominika Egorova (Lawrence) is a Russian prima ballerina, whose career is viciously curtailed. ![]() The movie closely mirrors the original book. In Jason Matthews' (Opens in a new window) book Red Sparrow, the source material for the new Jennifer Lawrence spy movie out this weekend, the same Cold War enemies face each other across the frozen tundra of former Soviet-era brutalist architecture. While the world wasn't watching, Russia grasped power. In fact, according to a high-ranking Russian official at a clandestine training school for "honey trap" operatives, the battle simply fragmented into thousands of pieces as the West got distracted by social media and shopping. In a chilling moment (and there are many) in Red Sparrow, we learn that the Cold War isn't over.
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