I don't know if _Panic Room_ can be considered as an action movie, but it
shows a very interesting transformation of the female protagonist played by
Jodie Foster. At the beginning of the film, she is not able to face her
life, she is a claustrophobian, fragile, depressed woman with a child who
doesn't admire nor respect her. Then, she turns into a phisycally and
psychologically strong woman who is able to save her family.
But there is another film which is maybe more interesting: _Contact_, ever
played by Jodie Foster. In this film the transformation is inverted: a young
and brilliant scientist, who is very very rational and determined in her
life and work, experiences something which is far from the logics of the
world she lives in and becomes more spiritual and flexible. She admits that
science and logics don't explain everything and that the structures of our
world are constructed and not immanent.
I hope it will help!
Francesca
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