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The Big Picture If there's one quality that the James Bond series has always been good for, it's camp. Even if it wasn't always intentional, the series has had a healthy dose of sincere absurdity, whether it's the overt machismo of the Sean Connery era or the smoothly streamlined blockbusters of the Pierce Brosnan age.
By extension, Bond is portrayed here as a dinosaur who's seemingly out-of-touch with his sense of purpose and doesn't have his A-game like he used to, still shaken from the trauma of losing his one true love, Vesper , in Casino Royale. To underline his increasingly vulnerable position, the film did something no Bond film had done before at that time: delve into his childhood, officially giving him a backstory that he'd never had in any previous film.
That line serves as the capper for an incredible introduction scene that shows you everything you need to understand why Bardem's performance is so revelatory. With the slipperiness of a snake and the purr of an alleycat, Silva monologues a story about rats being trained to devour each other until there are only two survivors, with Silva drawing a line to his and Bond's relationship to M.
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