Platitudes: Challenges Gender-Role Convention

"Vikander's UNCLE spy challenges gender-role convention"
-- Bill Goodykoontz.

Bill Goodykootz lost me before he even got to say hello. Gender-role convention: the latest addition to the category of annoying political clichés and platitudes. Vikander is an actor in a spy fantasy movie, for heavens sake. I'm not going to take my daughter to it to show her she can work for the CIA... that date might be saved for Zero Dark Thirty, which I can guarantee you wouldn't interest her now. She's really smart. I bought her a Carnegie-Mellon robot kit to spend the summer with. She put the robot together in an hour, played with it for an afternoon and spent the rest of the summer knitting and reading girls books.

Here's a much better lead and way of dealing with Vikander and the movie, sans cliches:

"It is 8.15am, and Alicia Vikander – possibly the hottest young actress in the world right now – walks into a cafe near her home in north London and orders a coffee and chia porridge. She is 15 minutes early for our meeting..."

"Next month sees the delayed opening of her first blockbuster, Guy Ritchie's reworking of the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. In this kind of film, we're used to female characters who exist solely to be the love interest, but Vikander's impossibly glamorous East German car mechanic is central to the action, while the bad guys are led by the equally glamorous Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki." Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/the-man-from-uncles-alicia-vikander-the-worlds-hottest-young-actress-20150805-girabt.html