Dominika: ILE-Ti 1w2 sx/sp
Egorov: IEE-Fi 3w2 sx/so
Nate: SEE-Fi 7w8 so/sx
Matron: EII-Fi 2w1 so/sp
Boucher: EIE-Ni 7w6 so/sx
These characters were well written.
Spoilers ahead.
Dominika: ILE-Ti 1w2 sx/sp
Dominika’s motivation is to get revenge on her uncle ergorov for sending her to “whore school”, as she puts it. Her anger at him drives the plot. Naranjo notes that anger is the passion of Type 1. R & H call it wrath. The nature of anger is to right wrongs. Sx/sp makes her selective in who she exchanges energy with and the 2 wing makes her focus on other’s needs.
The question of her socionics type comes in when we are looking at the particular cognition she has available for evening this score with her uncle. She bends and manipulates objects to her task by perceiving their inherent possibilities. The world is Dominika’s chess board. Ti-creative gives her the data to weave a convincing narrative when she needs to walk her uncle into a compromising position.
A few examples of her cognition at work:
Dominika’s assignment is to get close to the American Nate. She is given a new name Katrina something-or-other and told by her uncle that she is no longer Dominika. By this point she has the Russians and her uncle convinced that she is a patriot. When she is in the room with a higher up, the higher up asks her what type of man would send his niece to sparrow school. She answers “a patriot.” This is why you can’t take what people say too literally when trying to type their socionics. She doesn’t really mean it. She hates her uncle and wants to ruin him for what he did to her, but in order to do that she has to convince the Russians she is trustworthy.
The Russians assign Dominika the mission to track down the name of a double agent named “Marble” by seducing Marble’s only contact, Nate. Dominika signs up for a membership at the swimming pool where Nate swims. When she signs up at the front desk, Dominika first writes her Russian spy name Katrina on the form. That’s the name she’s to use for the mission. However, she tears the form up and uses a new form to write her real name Dominika Ergorova. By doing this, she grasps the possibility that the American Nate will investigate into her identity. Once nate sees the name Ergorova, he will tie the name into her powerful uncle and conduct further investigation. The evidence will point to her being a spy. The American will want to try to recruit her. Thus begins her real mission of using the Americans to help her even the score with her uncle. Her intuition is spot on as she discovers that at her next visit to the pool her identification card was stolen. This cuts to the scene where nate is trying to persuade other CIA officers that she is a spy and that he thinks he can turn her.
Dominika roommates with a woman named Marta who is also a sparrow. When Dominika is at a party she sees Marta in a very close, intimate familiar interaction with an American chief of staff named Boucher. Since Marta is a sparrow, that would mean she has seduced and manipulated this woman. Based on her own training, Dominika intuits the possibility that the Chief of Staff has been compromised due to some leverage Marta has gained over her and that it could somehow be useful in her plans for revenge on her uncle. Dominika goes back home and rummages through her roommates room to discover, hidden inside a wall, compromising photos of Boucher with Marta plus a note indicating that the chief of staff put 250,000 as a price for government secrets about a missile defense system (I think). This leads her into grasping multiple possibilities. The first possibility is she can use these pieces to entice her uncle into funneling money into an account, and that if the account is set up in his name, it will look like he was the one receiving payments from the Americans. She knows that Marta will come around because Marta cannot get the 250,000 herself.
One day Dominika comes home to find her uncle waiting for her in Marta’s apartment. Marta goes in the room to give them privacy as they talk in the kitchen. Dominika makes her uncle a drink grasping the possibility that she can later plant the glass he drinks out of in the American’s apartment. His fingerprints will be traceable on the glass. As they drink in the kitchen, she tells her uncle that her and Marta together have compromised an American chief of staff. She wants 250,000 to effect the transaction. He ultimately agrees because he’s a status climber and netting such government secrets will result in more promotions and influence for him. As she goes and gets his coat for him, she looks at his wallet for information that she can use to set up the account in his name. The second possibility is that she can use the information from her roommate’s apartment to gain the American’s trust by revealing the betrayal to America by the chief of staff.
The basic objects in reality contain all these possibilities for her, which she cognizes through her interactions with external reality. Little by little, she constructs/improvises a rather clever plan for evening the score with her uncle by framing him as the traitor “Marble”. This culminates in his execution.
Uncle Egorov….IEE-Fi 3w2 sx/so
The relationship between Dominika and her uncle highlights the downside to supervisor-supervisee relations.
His enneagram motivation is to win, succeed, advance himself. He displays the “opportunistic” and “exploitative” behaviors of type three in the lower levels in order to find out the name of “Marble.” He engages in amoral strategizing by preying on Dominika’s vulnerability. This vulnerability is that she was injured in her performance, so now she can’t make any money to pay for her mother’s medical care. He ruthlessly uses this vulnerability to coerce her into working for him when, all along, he could have helped her without exploiting her but says he will only help her if she helps him. That means putting her in situations where she is inevitably raped, objectified and tortured. Part of the subtext is that her uncle ultimately wants to possess her sexually, so he sends her to sparrow school so as to erase not only her identity but sense of morality. It’s commented twice in the movie about what type of man would send his niece to sparrow school.
When it comes to his socionics type, he displays a cognition for interpersonal dynamics and external mirroring. This makes him a rather smooth and slippery character with a penchant for passive-aggressiveness. He controls the options to make Dominika choose the way he wants. Even when he is busy manipulating and coercing Dominika, he does it in a way that comes across like he’s empathizing with her situation. He is also incredibly smooth at talking his way out of tricky situations. Early on, there is a business man (an American) that the Russians want to murder. This man displayed a liking for Dominika in the past. That was when Dominika was a ballerina. Now that she is injured and needs money to support her sick mother, egorov sees an opportunity to use Dominika as a pawn. Uncle Egorov seems to intuit the intricacies of how the man will react to Dominika and gives her a step by step detail on what she should do….the way the interpersonal dynamic will play out. He reasons with her that if she does it he will pay for her mother’s medical care. At first, she refuses, until she finds her mother in the bathroom on the floor. She then goes to her uncle. The uncle explains her mission under the pretense that he only wants Dominika to exchange his own cell phone with a lookalike phone. However, when she is alone in the room with the businessman, the businessman rapes her on the bed. Egorov gives the order to his henchman to go in there and garrot the man to death. Egorov knows that at this point because she was a witness to the murder, the Kremlin will react by wanting her eliminated. That’s when he talks them into giving her the option to join the sparrow school. He then presents this option to her. When she refuses, he sympathetically informs her the alternative is death, but he is a smooth talker so he simply says “it will be in the state’s hands.”
Nate….SEE-Fi 7w8 so/sx
His motivation is adventure, risk, stimulation. He wants the thrills of danger and constantly puts himself into dangerous situations that end up subverting the mission. In the park, he fires off his gun in an effort to protect the double agent “Marble”, which then leads to a high-speed chase. That inevitably leads to him being compromised and taken off the case by his superiors. Firing his gun is considered a dumb move when it’s likely the vice squad would have just let Marble go. He then spots an opportunity for a new adventure when he spots dominika at the pool. He steals her ID card from the front desk and investigates her. He then persuades his superiors that he can recruit her.
In terms of his socionics type, he furthers his core desire for adventure through a cognition for conquering. In fact, Dominika shrewdly spots this in him. In order to pull him in, Dominika plays hard to get. She gives him a challenge. She learned this at Sparrow school. The Sparrows were taught that if you tap into a person’s need, you can make them do anything. The day that he sees her at the pool, he strikes up a conversation with her outside and tries to get her to go to lunch with him. This makes him even want her more, and he presses her to let him take her out. When his superiors pull him off the mission, Nate still bullheadedly insists on being put on the case because he is the only one that the Russian defector Marble will trust. He has wax in his ears and doesn’t listen to anybody. He also has a cognition for motivation. He correctly grasps that Dominika using her real name at the pool was a provocation. He’s straightforward when he wants something. He doesn’t “gild the lilly.” He just cuts right to the chase.
He plays fast and loose with the rules but is also guided by a compassion for Dominika’s situation. This comes from Fi-creative’s ability to step inside the other person’s shoes. This compassion also makes him self-righteous in asserting the greater humanitarian methods about the way US secret agencies interact in contrast to Russia. He convincingly says that as a defect to the US she would never have to worry about being exploited because the Americans don’t do that. She’s not just an object in the spy game, but a person. He is even willing to blow a mission just to save Dominika at the airport by killing Volhonov.
Matron: EII-Fi 2w1 so/sp
Her motivation is to seduce through self-sacrifice; by being indispensable to the state. It requires identifying other people’s needs and then devising ploys to win the person over and manipulate them. Type twos attention goes to other people’s needs at the expense of their own. This is what makes her the ideal teacher of the sparrow school. Dominika refuses to take her clothes off in front of the class, Matron says that it’s the prideful who usually don’t make it in sparrow school. Matron’s job is to break students down from individuals to cogs in the machine through a strategy of denigration. She wants to make them into purely functional, cold-hearted, spiritless seducers without any sentiment or spirit.
Matron destroys the student’s pride through her cognition for the inner psychology of others. She is a master of psychology which makes her the ideal choice to train the sparrows in not just physical/kinesthetic manipulation, but more importantly, emotional manipulation. Matron runs the recruits through a gamut of denigrating exercises. Matron puts on a video for the class and asks them to identify the needs of different subjects. So with one subject, she asks the class to identify the man’s need. A girl answers that the guy is a degenerate. Matron takes that to mean the girl thinks that he’s a homosexual. Matron congratulates her on being right but chastises her for judging the man. She makes the girl come to the front of the class. The homosexual guy is then brought out from behind a curtain and stands him in front of the girl. “You must be a boy for him,” Matron says. “Get on your knees.” Matron then goes into a monologue reminiscent of Hannibal Lecter’s first meeting with Clarice when she begins to intuit embarrassing details about the women’s childhood…”surely it’s not your first time…when you were a young girl in the field…” and she goes on as if she’s possessed by a vision of what she sees in her internal mirror of the girl’s past….it’s lecter-esque. In another instance, Matron makes the sparrows choose from among Russian soldiers to bring back to their rooms in private. Dominika chooses a young unassertive "boy". She doesn't have sex with him. The next day Matron plays videos in front of the class from hidden cameras inside Dominika’s room with the guy. Matron compliments Dominika on technique but then chastises dominika for rushing to choose a boy instead of a man because she knew the boy wouldn’t have his way with her. “It won’t always be that easy,” Matron warns.
Egorov: IEE-Fi 3w2 sx/so
Nate: SEE-Fi 7w8 so/sx
Matron: EII-Fi 2w1 so/sp
Boucher: EIE-Ni 7w6 so/sx
These characters were well written.
Spoilers ahead.
Dominika: ILE-Ti 1w2 sx/sp
Dominika’s motivation is to get revenge on her uncle ergorov for sending her to “whore school”, as she puts it. Her anger at him drives the plot. Naranjo notes that anger is the passion of Type 1. R & H call it wrath. The nature of anger is to right wrongs. Sx/sp makes her selective in who she exchanges energy with and the 2 wing makes her focus on other’s needs.
The question of her socionics type comes in when we are looking at the particular cognition she has available for evening this score with her uncle. She bends and manipulates objects to her task by perceiving their inherent possibilities. The world is Dominika’s chess board. Ti-creative gives her the data to weave a convincing narrative when she needs to walk her uncle into a compromising position.
A few examples of her cognition at work:
Dominika’s assignment is to get close to the American Nate. She is given a new name Katrina something-or-other and told by her uncle that she is no longer Dominika. By this point she has the Russians and her uncle convinced that she is a patriot. When she is in the room with a higher up, the higher up asks her what type of man would send his niece to sparrow school. She answers “a patriot.” This is why you can’t take what people say too literally when trying to type their socionics. She doesn’t really mean it. She hates her uncle and wants to ruin him for what he did to her, but in order to do that she has to convince the Russians she is trustworthy.
The Russians assign Dominika the mission to track down the name of a double agent named “Marble” by seducing Marble’s only contact, Nate. Dominika signs up for a membership at the swimming pool where Nate swims. When she signs up at the front desk, Dominika first writes her Russian spy name Katrina on the form. That’s the name she’s to use for the mission. However, she tears the form up and uses a new form to write her real name Dominika Ergorova. By doing this, she grasps the possibility that the American Nate will investigate into her identity. Once nate sees the name Ergorova, he will tie the name into her powerful uncle and conduct further investigation. The evidence will point to her being a spy. The American will want to try to recruit her. Thus begins her real mission of using the Americans to help her even the score with her uncle. Her intuition is spot on as she discovers that at her next visit to the pool her identification card was stolen. This cuts to the scene where nate is trying to persuade other CIA officers that she is a spy and that he thinks he can turn her.
Dominika roommates with a woman named Marta who is also a sparrow. When Dominika is at a party she sees Marta in a very close, intimate familiar interaction with an American chief of staff named Boucher. Since Marta is a sparrow, that would mean she has seduced and manipulated this woman. Based on her own training, Dominika intuits the possibility that the Chief of Staff has been compromised due to some leverage Marta has gained over her and that it could somehow be useful in her plans for revenge on her uncle. Dominika goes back home and rummages through her roommates room to discover, hidden inside a wall, compromising photos of Boucher with Marta plus a note indicating that the chief of staff put 250,000 as a price for government secrets about a missile defense system (I think). This leads her into grasping multiple possibilities. The first possibility is she can use these pieces to entice her uncle into funneling money into an account, and that if the account is set up in his name, it will look like he was the one receiving payments from the Americans. She knows that Marta will come around because Marta cannot get the 250,000 herself.
One day Dominika comes home to find her uncle waiting for her in Marta’s apartment. Marta goes in the room to give them privacy as they talk in the kitchen. Dominika makes her uncle a drink grasping the possibility that she can later plant the glass he drinks out of in the American’s apartment. His fingerprints will be traceable on the glass. As they drink in the kitchen, she tells her uncle that her and Marta together have compromised an American chief of staff. She wants 250,000 to effect the transaction. He ultimately agrees because he’s a status climber and netting such government secrets will result in more promotions and influence for him. As she goes and gets his coat for him, she looks at his wallet for information that she can use to set up the account in his name. The second possibility is that she can use the information from her roommate’s apartment to gain the American’s trust by revealing the betrayal to America by the chief of staff.
The basic objects in reality contain all these possibilities for her, which she cognizes through her interactions with external reality. Little by little, she constructs/improvises a rather clever plan for evening the score with her uncle by framing him as the traitor “Marble”. This culminates in his execution.
Uncle Egorov….IEE-Fi 3w2 sx/so
The relationship between Dominika and her uncle highlights the downside to supervisor-supervisee relations.
His enneagram motivation is to win, succeed, advance himself. He displays the “opportunistic” and “exploitative” behaviors of type three in the lower levels in order to find out the name of “Marble.” He engages in amoral strategizing by preying on Dominika’s vulnerability. This vulnerability is that she was injured in her performance, so now she can’t make any money to pay for her mother’s medical care. He ruthlessly uses this vulnerability to coerce her into working for him when, all along, he could have helped her without exploiting her but says he will only help her if she helps him. That means putting her in situations where she is inevitably raped, objectified and tortured. Part of the subtext is that her uncle ultimately wants to possess her sexually, so he sends her to sparrow school so as to erase not only her identity but sense of morality. It’s commented twice in the movie about what type of man would send his niece to sparrow school.
When it comes to his socionics type, he displays a cognition for interpersonal dynamics and external mirroring. This makes him a rather smooth and slippery character with a penchant for passive-aggressiveness. He controls the options to make Dominika choose the way he wants. Even when he is busy manipulating and coercing Dominika, he does it in a way that comes across like he’s empathizing with her situation. He is also incredibly smooth at talking his way out of tricky situations. Early on, there is a business man (an American) that the Russians want to murder. This man displayed a liking for Dominika in the past. That was when Dominika was a ballerina. Now that she is injured and needs money to support her sick mother, egorov sees an opportunity to use Dominika as a pawn. Uncle Egorov seems to intuit the intricacies of how the man will react to Dominika and gives her a step by step detail on what she should do….the way the interpersonal dynamic will play out. He reasons with her that if she does it he will pay for her mother’s medical care. At first, she refuses, until she finds her mother in the bathroom on the floor. She then goes to her uncle. The uncle explains her mission under the pretense that he only wants Dominika to exchange his own cell phone with a lookalike phone. However, when she is alone in the room with the businessman, the businessman rapes her on the bed. Egorov gives the order to his henchman to go in there and garrot the man to death. Egorov knows that at this point because she was a witness to the murder, the Kremlin will react by wanting her eliminated. That’s when he talks them into giving her the option to join the sparrow school. He then presents this option to her. When she refuses, he sympathetically informs her the alternative is death, but he is a smooth talker so he simply says “it will be in the state’s hands.”
Nate….SEE-Fi 7w8 so/sx
His motivation is adventure, risk, stimulation. He wants the thrills of danger and constantly puts himself into dangerous situations that end up subverting the mission. In the park, he fires off his gun in an effort to protect the double agent “Marble”, which then leads to a high-speed chase. That inevitably leads to him being compromised and taken off the case by his superiors. Firing his gun is considered a dumb move when it’s likely the vice squad would have just let Marble go. He then spots an opportunity for a new adventure when he spots dominika at the pool. He steals her ID card from the front desk and investigates her. He then persuades his superiors that he can recruit her.
In terms of his socionics type, he furthers his core desire for adventure through a cognition for conquering. In fact, Dominika shrewdly spots this in him. In order to pull him in, Dominika plays hard to get. She gives him a challenge. She learned this at Sparrow school. The Sparrows were taught that if you tap into a person’s need, you can make them do anything. The day that he sees her at the pool, he strikes up a conversation with her outside and tries to get her to go to lunch with him. This makes him even want her more, and he presses her to let him take her out. When his superiors pull him off the mission, Nate still bullheadedly insists on being put on the case because he is the only one that the Russian defector Marble will trust. He has wax in his ears and doesn’t listen to anybody. He also has a cognition for motivation. He correctly grasps that Dominika using her real name at the pool was a provocation. He’s straightforward when he wants something. He doesn’t “gild the lilly.” He just cuts right to the chase.
He plays fast and loose with the rules but is also guided by a compassion for Dominika’s situation. This comes from Fi-creative’s ability to step inside the other person’s shoes. This compassion also makes him self-righteous in asserting the greater humanitarian methods about the way US secret agencies interact in contrast to Russia. He convincingly says that as a defect to the US she would never have to worry about being exploited because the Americans don’t do that. She’s not just an object in the spy game, but a person. He is even willing to blow a mission just to save Dominika at the airport by killing Volhonov.
Matron: EII-Fi 2w1 so/sp
Her motivation is to seduce through self-sacrifice; by being indispensable to the state. It requires identifying other people’s needs and then devising ploys to win the person over and manipulate them. Type twos attention goes to other people’s needs at the expense of their own. This is what makes her the ideal teacher of the sparrow school. Dominika refuses to take her clothes off in front of the class, Matron says that it’s the prideful who usually don’t make it in sparrow school. Matron’s job is to break students down from individuals to cogs in the machine through a strategy of denigration. She wants to make them into purely functional, cold-hearted, spiritless seducers without any sentiment or spirit.
Matron destroys the student’s pride through her cognition for the inner psychology of others. She is a master of psychology which makes her the ideal choice to train the sparrows in not just physical/kinesthetic manipulation, but more importantly, emotional manipulation. Matron runs the recruits through a gamut of denigrating exercises. Matron puts on a video for the class and asks them to identify the needs of different subjects. So with one subject, she asks the class to identify the man’s need. A girl answers that the guy is a degenerate. Matron takes that to mean the girl thinks that he’s a homosexual. Matron congratulates her on being right but chastises her for judging the man. She makes the girl come to the front of the class. The homosexual guy is then brought out from behind a curtain and stands him in front of the girl. “You must be a boy for him,” Matron says. “Get on your knees.” Matron then goes into a monologue reminiscent of Hannibal Lecter’s first meeting with Clarice when she begins to intuit embarrassing details about the women’s childhood…”surely it’s not your first time…when you were a young girl in the field…” and she goes on as if she’s possessed by a vision of what she sees in her internal mirror of the girl’s past….it’s lecter-esque. In another instance, Matron makes the sparrows choose from among Russian soldiers to bring back to their rooms in private. Dominika chooses a young unassertive "boy". She doesn't have sex with him. The next day Matron plays videos in front of the class from hidden cameras inside Dominika’s room with the guy. Matron compliments Dominika on technique but then chastises dominika for rushing to choose a boy instead of a man because she knew the boy wouldn’t have his way with her. “It won’t always be that easy,” Matron warns.