La Femme Nikita

La Femme Nikita is an action movie. It was written and produced by Luc Besson. The movie is in its entirely in French. Most of its actors are also from that country, including Anne Parillaud, who has the role of interpreting Nikita. Nikita basically is a movie that tells the story of a girl who was sentenced to prison after being captured during a store robbery and then was sentenced to death. However, her luck could change rapidly after she is secretly erased from society and adopted by a secret agent agency. This means that she was dead for the society and her family. The story line of this movie is very simple and interesting to follow.

Nikita spent many years aisled of society while being trained by secret agents. Once her training ended she was released to integrate society again and to be on hold for any secret assignment. This meant that she could no longer have a life of her own. She now was property of a spy agent agency. The interesting part of all of this is that while being on hold and waiting for an assignment she started to develop her own life. She met a man on a supermarket to whom she later married. Everything started to go fine in her life again until she was officially given her first assignment. Then problems started to surround her. These problems were basically emotional problems. She had to live a double life (her husband didn’t know her real job). This could be really depressing for any person and she was not the exception. Her emotional stability was being brought down after each assignment. Then the turning point comes when she has to get into an embassy and steal important documented information.

During this assignment something went wrong and the agents decide to call another spy agent “the cleaner” to fix the situation. This really had a bad impact on Nikita. She accomplishes the mission; but the cleaner has also another mission. He must kill Nikita. Fortunately Nikita is able to kill the cleaner and escape. However, she doesn’t only escape from the cleaner, she also escapes from the world in which she lives and decides to start a new life.

I really enjoy this film. The reason for this is that in comparison to many action films, this one was not full of visual or special effects. The producers and director focused more on the story line. As well, they tried to keep it the more realistic possible. It was also a very original movie. Most of the action movies have as action figures to men. Since this movie was released in the late 80’s and early 90’s, I think that in some way it influenced to filmmakers to take the adventure of having women as action figures too. I also like the ending of this movie. It’s not typical happy ending that Hollywood movies have. In this case, you don’t really are show a detailed ending. For this movie, the viewers had the chance to interpret in their own way the destiny of Nikita.