“Classic” is probably the best way to describe this film. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.Ī James Bond film with classic art and poetry. Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will Moved earth and heaven that which we are, we are We are not now that strength which in old days Tho’ much is taken, much abides and though And this is a word that deserves our attention.Īnother key moment comes as M quotes Tennyson’s poem Ulysses, as the villain approaches to assassinate her, and Bond runs through the streets of London to stop him: A key word in the movie is “Resurrection”. There certainly is that – and the action is top-notch – but it contains a deeper theme, made explicit in smaller scenes like the one I shared, one that I think the Church can learn from.
It’s actually about something more than a hero chasing a villain.
It’s more than a Bond movie it’s a Bond film. Skyfall, the 23rd entry in the Bond franchise, is something else entirely. being ignominiously hauled away to scrap… The inevitability of time, don’t you think? What do you see? Q: It always makes me feel a bit melancholy. (Looking at Turner’s famous 1839 painting of the soon to be scrapped battered British gunship, The Fighting Temeraire)
