Salt

[sasha_feather]

I recently saw the movie Salt with lilaia and all the people in my circle are right: this movie rocks.
1. Angelina Jolie as a super-competent kick-ass spy hero, who is presented in a basically non-sexualized way*, and has an emotional arc.
2. Chiwetel Ejiofor. I will see him in anything.

Note that it still just barely passes the Bechdel test for a conversation between Salt and a girl who lives next door. I still highly recommend it.

It opens on one disturbingly violent scene of Salt imprisoned and being tortured, but after that is basically PG-13 content: no sex, stylized movie violence, car chases and such.

*I thought the drag outfit was pretty sexy myself, but YMMV.

Comments

[feroxargentea]

An outstandingly silly movie (kinda almost so bad it's good), but interesting to see the lead-role genderswapped without any obvious change. A pity the first five minutes were so nasty, but after that, fine - and also rather sweet that the "love interest" wasn't a typical Hollywood hunk.