It was actually edited into two versions. The second version I watched seven years later was not the same as it was seven years ago, and Salt's image was also very different.
The original version was that Short watched his husband get killed, killed all his comrades in his own hands in a rage, and stopped another Russian spy from launching a nuclear bomb on Muslim areas in the White House bunker. He was arrested and finally escaped by jumping into the sea from a helicopter. A later edited version of Short watched her husband get killed, was arrested after the White House attack, escaped and returned to Russia to destroy a camp that trained child spies. Compared with the ruthless image of Salt in the second version, in the first version, Salt's image is more complicated. After being killed, he broke down in his heart, and finally almost destroyed all the achievements of the Soviet intelligence agencies for decades, and "saved the world". The second version of Short is very cold and unmoved, because of the sloppy handling of her husband Mike's plot, it is difficult to understand why a loyal and cold female agent would have a good conscience and finally thwarted the Russian conspiracy.
In the first version, Salt's husband, Mike, who only appeared on the scene for a few minutes, was the key player in the plot. At the beginning, Short's husband put pressure on Congress, and the U.S. government eventually intervened, negotiating to bring the CIA agent Short, who was an oil company employee, back to the United States from North Korea. Russia, which he relied on, gave up Short at the very beginning, and the American intelligence service that threw himself into the service also gave up Short, but her husband Mike never gave up on Short. So Short was worried about the safety of her husband Mike in danger, so he exposed his identity in advance and started the first flight. Short watched her beloved husband being killed by the former Soviet comrades as a "test" to test her. Tangled and collapsed, she killed all the agents trained by the same batch, and contacted the NATO agents alone to perform the White House mission. At the White House, when Short learned that his husband was intentionally killed by another former Soviet agent lurking in the CIA, he gave up a career he had fought for decades and successfully prevented Russian spies from using the United States to attack Iran. Conspiracy to wait for Muslim countries to launch nuclear bombs.
Salt's falling in love with Mike was the fault of her espionage career, but it was the beginning of a lonely woman's return to herself. Love corrupted an excellent female spy, made her use spider venom to make the Russian president feign death, made her show mercy and didn't shoot a former CIA colleague (the second version obviously didn't deal with this foreshadowing plot, in the first version Shorter jumped out of the helicopter at the suggestion of her colleague), and ended up turning her against her former comrade, saving millions of lives from her remorse for watching her husband killed and her anger at fellow undercover Russian spy. life, and ruined the greatest achievement in the history of Russia.
Salt does not understand "loyalty" and "betrayal", "truth" and "lie", let alone understand "justice" and "evil", nor does he have any pity and sympathy for bloodshed. Meeting Mike, however, was her wrong beginning as a spy and her wrong end as a woman. Before the same batch of trained agents killed Short's husband, the "instructor" had denied Short's marriage. The instructor's words pointed out the two choices Salt had made, and also implied Salt's helplessness, but also almost predicted all the endings:
"You were supposed to recruit him, and you fell in love with him."
A woman thus chooses to be awakened.
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