12/7/2023 0 Comments Meander film reviewNaturally, the audience is expecting things to take a turn. There’s the standard beauty shots of the location, the classic music and the sense of class and elegance that lets us all know we are in the world of James Bond. Bond), to escape to not just for a honeymoon, but to keep their heads down and out of sight from SPECTRE, MI6, the CIA and anyone else who might want them. Exactly the kind of place 007 and his new wife, Madeleine Swann (who is Mrs. ![]() It’s a spectactularly idyllic hill town that’s isolated from pretty much everywhere. ![]() The film starts proper in the UNESCO town of Matera, Italy. The masked man approaches, but rather than kill her. It collapses and she falls into the icy depths, seemingly trapped. The prelude ends with Madeleine running for her life across the frozen lake. After failing his mission, the man seeks to leave but is instead given a new target. The man enters, kills the mother then checks the rest of the house for his intended target – The father, Mr. Neither mother nor daughter know who’s coming until it’s too late. ![]() The camera switches between the wholesome activities going in the house between young Madeleine and her mother and the progress of the masked man. Off in the distance across a frozen lake, there’s a masked man, armed and making his way to the house. We see a young Madeleine Swann in her family’s home in Norway. The prelude is almost an ethereal, dreamlike sequence. Daniel Craig’s swansong as James Bond has to see the actor go out all guns blazing and then some.
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