Quantum of Solace
Last night we went to take in the latest James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace. It's actually been a while since I saw a new Bond movie. I loved them at one time, but the past few Bonds haven't really piqued my interest. I felt that the movies had perhaps devolved too far into fantasy and too far away from Fleming's original vision. In fact, I didn't even see Casino Royale.
However, I plan to correct that little oversight since seeing Quantum of Solace. I like Daniel Craig's interpretation of Bond--more serious (in fact rather tortured in Q of S) and actually involved in a plot with some meaning. Craig's personification hearks back to Sean Connelly's Bond, although without Connelly's sardonic amusement with the world at large. I also enjoyed Judi Dench as M. She brought a new dimension to the character, which I appreciated.
The movie is fast-paced with tons of action, as a Bond film demands. My only slight quibble is that I realized upon leaving that I still didn't really know what the title meant. I believe it was mentioned in passing, but I might have been distracted by something else because, although I have the impression that it refers to a geographical place, I'm really not sure. I think with a title this intriguing, it could have been emphasized just a bit more.
All in all, I think fans of the early Bond films, or of Fleming's books, should enjoy this newest incarnation.
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Quantum of Solace is a follow up to the story developed in Casino Royale. I'm not going to ruin it for you, because it was one of the first Bond movies that I feel had a more substantive plot line and Daniel Craig's version of Bond feel more real to me.
As I understood it, the name of the movie plays out in two ways. 1st was obvious. After Vespa, Bond is hurting and wants revenge. Since killing the boyfriend was the way Bond planned on exacting his revenge, his quantum (amount) of solace was to finally achieve that.
The second way the title was involved, was that the group of investors that were involved in Greene Planet were called "The Quantum", as in many small parts of the whole. This is the significance of the little Q pin that people were wearing to identify who was part of the Quantum.
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