LA FEMME NIKITA (director: Luc Bresson; cast: Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hughes Anglade, Tcheky Karyo, Jean Reno, Jeanne Moreau, 1990-Fr.)
An exciting and entertaining actioner that tests the plausibility of its story with an unreality check, yet is real on its emotional levels, testing the heroine's reactions to love, guilt, loss of identity, and a deprived upbringing, which is rare for this genre to be so concerned with actual human values. Anne, the wife of Luc, plays Nikita with a flair, exhibiting the tremendous energy and orneriness needed to make the part exceptional. The film plays like an MTV special, using a splash of coloring to light up the screen and very fast paced action sequences to keep you mindlessly glued to the screen. But that is disarming, since this film has more than that to offer, even if it does not seem so during certain stretches of the film. It is worth sticking with this film, it gets better and less predictable the more you get into it. Though its ending, does leave a lot to be desired.
 This part of the story lags, as we watch how this violent misfit channels her anti-social aggressiveness into acceptibility for her new role in life, one that society, supposedly, can appreciate. Her teacher is Bob (Tcheky), who falls for her, but plays it on the up-and-up, remaining dedicated to the government he works for, never questioning their ruthless and unethical tactics. As we can easily surmise, she proves herself fit for her assignment, and the big event will climax on how she will fare on her first job.
Jeanne Moreau has a nice little cameo in Nikita's schooling scenes, teaching the 23-year-old, how to be a woman. There is one great scene where we see the young Nikita putting on makeup next to Moreau, and we are dazzled by looking at the faces of the two stars fill-up the screen, with Moreau, wrinkles and all, still looking quite sexy and alluring, and in my way of looking at things, the one who is the more alluring.
With Nikita's graduation from school, she is now a secret agent, who will answer to the code name Josephine, as she is given money to set up an apartment and life of her own, since the government has done a mock funeral for her, and she has no relations who will ask questions about her, she is now completely reborn as a new person. She quickly meets a checker in a supermarket, Mario (Anglade), and they fall in love and move in together. She remains mute to him about her biography, demanding that he asks her no questions, as she continues to go on hit man assignments for the government, in a seemingly never-ending redemption for her past crimes.
Her final assignment goes awry, as a cleaner, Victor (Reno), is called in to mop up after the important mission, of going into an ambassador's safe to steal documents that will link some private companies to some shady dealings, is about to be aborted. Victor is menacing , brutal, and maniacal, and this outcome of mayhem, convinces Nikita that it is time for her to move on.
So, we have come full cycle, and Nikita has developed an appreciation for life that she never had before, leaving us with much moral fodder to chew on, more than most actioners leave us with, and we come to the understanding that this incredible story, that is hardly plausible, that is seemingly cartoonish, is much better than it appears on surface because somehow or other it satisfies our need to know something about covert operations and the people who go into it on a non-voluntary basis, plus the movie is very entertaining and was able to hold our attention, even through the rough spots in it.
REVIEWED ON 12/27/98 GRADE: B
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Online Privacy:how To Protect Your Privacy Online
January 9, 2016
First of all let me start by explaining the meaning of the word “Privacy”.
Privacy(n):A state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people.(or) The state of being free from public attention.
All of us on the internet like to browse and look for interesting content which are available online. But what most of us don’t know is that alot of our information is shared.
What is Data Privacy?
Data privacy, also called information privacy, is the aspect of information technology (IT) that deals with the ability an organization or individual has to determine what data in a computer system can be shared with third parties.
How does our data being shared affect us ?
This might sound like a silly question at first,but when you think about it, it is the most important question you must be asking. What is being done with our data? Why does it benefit other websites for having our information?. For people who say “I’m just a normal guy/girl nothing can be done with having my information. You are wrong. This is like saying I’ll give anyone access into my house and my personal space because I’m normal. All of us should exercise our right to Privacy online and offline.
So now to the next topic,How do I protect my data and prevent it from being shared online,
Here are some steps you can follow to prevent your data from being shared online.
Note: These are not in any particular order whatsoever.All of them are important to protect your privacy online
Step 1:Don’t Share your location online.
Yes that includes sharing your location in Facebook and other social sites as well. Sharing your location online is the best way to lose your privacy. Sharing your location let’s others know where you hangout alot and makes your private hangouts which must be kept private vulnerable.
Step 2:Always read the terms and conditions.
 Read them. I know it is tiring and boring but trust me it is worth the effort. You should know what the software you install does and what you shouldn’t do to violate it. A lot of softwares collect data about you. Hence you should always check why they collect data and what are the reasons for them to collect the data.
Step 3:No need to share everything on Social Media
Status updates and posting your thoughts are cool but there is no reason to share everything on Social Media,Remember to set the exact privacy settings on each post and to not share stuff which is personal and uneccessary to be shared online.
Step 4:Don’t save passwords
It is strongly adviced not to store passwords online since it is vulnerable to attacks and threats. Also change your passwords often.
 Unwantedly and Unknowningly you share your information online.
Step 6:Activate Track Protection
Firefox now allows you to turn on Tracking Protection and stop all the other Third Party cookeis from gathering informatiobn about you. It is also available in other browsers like chrome. But I personally prefer and suggest Firefox.
Now that we’ve seen about how to protect our privacy,Here are some tools you can you to observe and safeguard it.
Tools:
This site contains a lot of cool tools to protect your privacy! Link: Privacy Tools
Firefox Lightbeam : Create a “Wizard of Oz” moment by pulling back the curtain to see who’s watching you on the Web. Turn on Mozilla’s Lightbeam tool, visit a handful of websites to see who’s tracking you, and then learn how to fight back. You’ll never look at the Web the same way again!.Firefox Lightbeam
Finally here are some tips by Mozilla on Privacy Protection: Get smart on Privacy
This post is written by Roopak and his original post is here.