‘Atomic Blonde’ Is An Espionage 80’s Music Video We Never Knew We Needed

Atomic Blonde is the best espionage 80s music video ever. This film is a fantastic display of stylized movie making and storytelling like we haven’t seen in some time. It takes place in Berlin at the turn of the century, the mission – a list of names is in danger of getting into the wrong hands. I know, not the most original plot line, but you are not in this film for the plot line. You are in it for the, cinematography, the characterization of the players involved, the visual metaphors, the politics and oh god yes, the fight choreography. If anything like many of you, we have seen the promotions of Charlize Theron putting in work with the stunt team, and she does not disappoint. They were able to seamlessly blend the stunt double with Charlize, I believe, because she is actually doing a large part of her own stunts. The fight choreographer was truly able to show me a badass woman who took down a room of men, not ’cause it was sexy (all though it was) not because she had super powers, but because she was skilled and a trained survivor. I could clearly see how someone can easily bring down an opponent bigger than them using the weight of their body, through force and the laws of physics. I was floored, I even feel like I may have learned some moves just watching.

Fighting aside, I think everyone is wondering about how the movie portrays women. The film could go so many ways, it could have given us the same sexy agent fighting in skimpy clothing, it could have given us gratuit…