Lioness-Special Ops

Here is another Gem. Found this on Instagram. A conversation between

the lead actress and a host where she was talking about the movie. It

starts of in a foreign city with a US Intelligence Operative having a

phone  call with an asset. Let me stop there. In a forum that is

increasing in use in Uganda, we recently started to talk about the

possibility of a decline of the major western powers. We are talking

ofcourse about the US and UK. I had this and other ideas in mind when i

started to locate Eastern or Asian Podcasts. To my surprise, there were

quite a number but the hosts had either British Accents or American

Ones. With all likelihood, these guys were probably educated in the

West and had all their contacts especially investors based in the US

and UK. The decline might be taking place, but we are stuck with

culture and language. We watch the movies and have adopted the language

that these western countries use. 

Which brings me back to Assets. So this is a term that is used to

describe someone that you use to help give you information from your

adversary. 

It is refreshing to see Zoe Saldana playing the role of a soldier

juggling both an active role in the field and behind the desk. She is

aslo raising daughters and navigating a relationship with a man in the

medical profession. We used the rerm refreshing for a reference to

Saldana because most of her roles in the past have been for creatures

from other planets. i wrote about this before but i was not the first

one to notice this disparity. We tended to feel like her abilities were

underutilized by casting her as a non-human. But a role is a role and

the creative work that she has done representing the mythical creatures

in a strange planet is remarkable (Avatar). 

She got my attention as did Amndla Sandberg (later featured in THUG-The

Hate You Give) who played the younger daughter of Brazilian Kingpin

seeking to get out of a network that  wants him dead (Colombiana). The

svelt Zoe grows up to be an attractive but highly skilled assasin who

goes to great lengths to avenge her father. 

So lioness revolves around this team that seeks to deal with American

adversaries with a covert team of about 6 specialists. 

It is about relationships that are forged between the members of this

team, the higher ups, government and the white house, business

interests connected to the husband of Zoe's character team leader and

Zoe's Character's family. 

She is trying to manage the team, raise a family, work on her marriage,

develop a relationship with a female soldier she needs to send into the

abyss and deal with the fallout from those who are a pay grade above

her. 

It is difficult to understand if the relationship between Hollywood and

Government is healthy but it feels like some parts of this series are

Government's attempt to try to help citizens understand some of the

dilemmas that are faced when writing policy and making money for the

economy.