Proud Mary Analysis

Proud Mary Proud Mary was by far one of the best movies that I have seen this year. The movie is an action packed, kick-butt film in which Taraji P Henson plays the lead character, Mary. NY Times described Taraji as a, “hit woman with a soft spot” and Variety describes her as a, “Haunted assassin who bonds with a kid.” I, however, describe Taraji’s character Mary as simply a resilient and audacious hero. In Proud Mary, Mary was a part of a mafia that she had been affiliated with all her life. During the course of the movie, it revealed that the assassins had taken Mary under their wing when she was just a little girl and treated her like their own all her life. Mary had abided by the mafia’s rules and regulations all her life, until she …show more content…
He was a young black boy who, for all he could remember, only was exposed to the lower income side of the town. Mary, too, lived in this part of town. The fact that all the little boy had ever been exposed to was this part of town, it made in so fascination how intelligent he was. Danny was not only street smart, but book smart as well. I feel like he taught Mary just as much as she taught him. He expressed to her that if the lifestyle she was living was not making her happy, then she should change her lifestyle. That is partially why Mary tried to get out of the mafia. Danny was also very intelligent because he discovered that Mary was in a mafia without her telling him anything. He searched around her house and found out not only what mafia she was in, but who she was working for, and who she was working with. All in all, I really enjoyed watching Proud Mary. I noticed a lot of small details that add background information as well as intensity to the movie. I love how the movie showed us that women can be that powerful and kick-butt woman, but still have a nurturing and caring side at the same time. I definitely would watch it again because I’m sure that I missed some particulars within the movie the first time that I watched