I love the actress Jennifer Lawrence. I have watched all of her movies and admired her portrayal of Katniss Everdine in The Hunger Games , Mystique in the X-Me n, and Tiffany in the Silver Linings Playbook. I also love spy movies. So, I eagerly settled into my theater seat to view Red Sparrow , a tale of a Russian dancer turned Soviet Agent. *** WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD *** There was the setup and inciting event: dancer is injured, thereby ending her career and income stream. She has a sick mother who needs medical care (personal dilemma). Enter the uncle who proposes a new job: become an agent or her mother dies (story goal). The first twist: she was intentionally injured by the leading man and another dancer. She gets brutal revenge so we see Dominique has the capacity for violence. Then the plot swan dives: they send her to, in her words, whore school. Neither men nor women are spared explicit sexual exploitation. There she learns to use her sexuality as a weapon an...