Monday, February 25, 2013

Skyfall (2012)

Since Daniel Craig played James Bond, the secret service agent hasn't been what he used to be, even though Craig certainly has all the qualities of his predecessors: handsome, debonair, sexy, and witty. But Craig's Bond, here, is darker, edgier, as though his brooding glances hides a past, even amidst death-defying, action sequences. That past shows up in Skyfall. We discover his roots, where he grew up. Thus, the story shows a more serious aspect of the agent that, at times, denies any intervention of wit and humor. This bond film seems to be preoccupied with shadows, which brilliantly merges the idea of shadows, in the context of terrorism and its politics, with the shadows of Bond's past, especially how that past surges back into the present and terrorizes it.

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