Spectre ironically opens in Mexico city: it’s the day of the dead and this acts as a metaphor for the whole film For this Bond is preoccupied with the resurrection of the dead, the unfinished spectres of his bloody past.
I felt Spectre a very dark Bond. Craig looks a haunted man, tense, focused and bent upon revenge. Yet ironically we find he is the ‘cuckoo’ in another killer’s narrative. For everything in Spectre is a matter of perspective: the guilty and innocent seem interchangeable , slippery reflections of each other. Think Cain and Abel…
The villainy of the effete bureaucrat casually played by Andrew Scott aka Moriarty in Sherlock seems creepily ordinary. He wants to abolish the OO programme and substitute surveillance techniques so the nation is under constant voyeuristic scrutiny. Sound curiously familiar? Maybe Theresa May could meet up with him to discuss her latest attempt to gain a licence to snoop on the nation. Coffee cups at noon…
The film is literally spectral throughout. Only THE car lightens the movie at all. Daniel Craig is a permanently haunted man in a muscle tightening suit. Think Bradley Headstone in Dickens’ last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend. Even Rome seems positively predatory. Tourist encouraging it is not!
Good Review! – Like the ‘muscle tightening suit’ From the clips I’ve seen, v accurate!
Doesn’t sound as much fun as many of the others, but v. intriguing – Thanks!