when i first set out to try and use film to help me with learn french and it be a completely uncharted territory except for one title i have hear of previously represent la femme nikita . this film be such a success that it go on to fare well in the u. k. and the state and which be always an achievement for a subtitled film and be later remake in hollywood a point of no return and then finally a a tv series . it start very suddenly with a girl and we will come to know a nikita and involve in a drug out store robbery that land her in jail . probably from the fact that she have nothing to lose and she be choose to be remove from prison and enter into training a an assassin for the french dgse ( think cia ) . a she go from drug addict street trash to secret agent and we watch her remain steadfastly defiant in her original style until her handler reach through to her and she begin to accept her new life and allow herself to be tame . the central theme of the movie be nikita and her reaction to her continually change fortune and so this tamed peace rapidly transition across rejection and freedom and love and manipulation and terror and eventually selfless sacrifice ( i have give away nothing . ) . throughout her experience and a common thread in many of these phase and and often the catalyst for them and her handler and be the source of her most complex relationship . their interaction carry tone of unrequited and forbidden love which drive him to cruelty toward her to punish himself and drive her to frigidness and rebellion against him . in many way and the cloak and dagger move and secret organization and gun battle be just window dressing for that relationship . thankfully and there be much more in relationship and window dressing to keep u riveted and think throughout this movie .