Salt (2010), directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Angelina Jolie, is a fast-paced espionage thriller about identity, loyalty, and state manipulation. Jolie plays Evelyn Salt, a skilled CIA officer accused of being a Russian sleeper agent. Salt was orphaned as a child and raised in Russia, where she was trained from a young age to become a deep-cover operative embedded in the U.S. A care-experienced protagonist whose early vulnerability is weaponised by the state