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| − | '''Nikita''' | + | '''La Femme Nikita''' (French title: '''Nikita''') is a 1990 French language movie directed by [[Luc Besson]]. It is the story of a female drug addict convicted of murdering a policeman during a failed pharmacy robbery. While serving her sentence, Nikita is sneaked out of prison by an unknown government agency and given the choice of becoming an assassin (presumably for the French government) or being killed herself. Nikita is broken of her rebellious spirit as she struggles with opiate withdrawal to receive extensive training in weapons handling, etiquette, computers, and language. She eventually graduates her training to receive assignments to assassinate strangers by her handler, an operative higher up within the agency. |
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Revision as of 03:20, March 11, 2010
La Femme Nikita (French title: Nikita) is a 1990 French language movie directed by Luc Besson. It is the story of a female drug addict convicted of murdering a policeman during a failed pharmacy robbery. While serving her sentence, Nikita is sneaked out of prison by an unknown government agency and given the choice of becoming an assassin (presumably for the French government) or being killed herself. Nikita is broken of her rebellious spirit as she struggles with opiate withdrawal to receive extensive training in weapons handling, etiquette, computers, and language. She eventually graduates her training to receive assignments to assassinate strangers by her handler, an operative higher up within the agency.
Themes
Nikita explores themes of personal redemption as the protagonist, a formerly pathetic heroin addicted juvenile delinquent, is transformed from something bad into something worse only to find herself finally capable of self-examination and taking control of her life. She begins having doubts about killing for a living and escapes the agency to live a new life in peace and away from drugs and violence.
