One of my guilty pleasures is to watch action movies about hitmen, and in particular hitmen who are female (hitwoman? hitperson?). The guilty part comes from the fact that I am a firm believer in the need for a strong rule of law, and it is impossible to make a film about a sympathetic hitman who doesn’t nonetheless break the law, often in bloody and flagrant ways. Indeed, this genre doesn’t just tolerate protagonists killing people, it positively celebrates them and turns them, for the most part, into heroes.
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