Quantum of solace

A beautiful name to a beautifully executed movie. The name fits like a glove on this raw-nerves-hanging-out-0f-a-severed-limb of a movie. Almost reminds one of the despairing theme of Monte Cristo in search for some measure of solace. This movie develops the character of James Bond very well. It is one step more in the direction of the making of the idealized fictional character of James Bond.
James Bond was delivered from the pen like womb of his writer perfect and an end product. This series of movie caters to the masses growing curiosity which is also the curiosity of the age. How are things the way that they are. It echoes with the same question that an introvert might ask of his own image in the mirror. Why am I here.
James Bond also struggles to find the same answer. In the grips of terror, he looses control of himself. His rage at the powers that hurt him is phenomenal and destructive but hurts no one like the way it hurts him. He realizes this when he sees his rage mirrored in another individual and then he realizes how subtle manipulations are more satisfying in the road to revenge than all out vendetta. The baby that attacked the mother's nipples with its teeth is learning. It is growing up and finding out better ways to destroy the world around him. Only after destruction and re synthesis will the world be a place worth understanding.
His attachment to no one speaks of a reactivity and he knows that the superman in him can be protected only if he surrenders himself to someone who was not there when he needed her. In this movie the maternal cravings of Bond are actually put in words. Psychoanalytically speaking it is the same cravings that would make him act like a play boy. He is saving his most precious self for his mother and will not give it to any other woman. He has tried to.... but it hurts too much. James Bond is on his way to become the scarab that he has always been in the literary world. From the same phenomena arises the guilt and the death wish that he is known for. Cool in the face of total annihilation can come from either not being afraid of death or it can come from total involvement with it. Like all other dual descriptors, these two circumstances can and usually do exist side by side defying reason but if described in an apt way, they make true art. Quantum of Solace is true art.