The latest Bond movie treats of exactly this phenomenology. I watched it last evening for the first time. The story line is painfully true-to-life, to include transmission and infection through genetically engineered, custom-made, boutique, swarming nano-particles. Likely this is why infotainment minions buried it, on behalf of government and private parties doing exactly that of which the movie treats, the custom bio-weapon bit, I mean, and their deployments.
However, the movie also is just splendid theatre and cinema art. The director, a Californian whose father was born in a Roosevelt internment camp, the editors, and the writers have crafted a superb piece of movie art. And the lead actress, she of a prominent French family, proves her acting skill many times over, in addition to her great physical beauty. Daniel Craig looks anything but old and over-the-hill.
Two other Bond films that I recall deal with mass pandemic using genetically engineered and targeted pathology vectors: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and Moonraker. OHMSS provides meta-thematic material for No Time To Die. The meta-theme is beautifully, carefully interwoven throughout, most obviously in soundtrack but also in cinematography and scene-staging. How many younger people will not see or hear the meta-theme from OHMSS unless it is told them?
FWIW, my favorite Bond music and vocalist, Shirley Bassey
The director has fondness for yellow sun coronas behind main characters and scenes. Apparently a trademark of his films, like Hitch cameos in his films and Michael Wilson cameos in Bond films, the which I did not spot in this latest, which is probably my bad.
In No Time To Die, governments — British and American specifically — as well as megalomaniacs sponsor genetic manipulation R&D as well as genetically-targeted pathogens and their deployment channels. Very close to current events. Bill Gates, Tony Fauci, and practitioners they sponsor among the nations come to mind. Save the world, are you guys? I think not.
In fact, No Time To Die is right on current events, right in them, so to speak, to include R&D for transmission and infection through swarming nano-particles against targeted population cohorts. Vaccines say you they are?
So, take your pick of who you want gone, crippled, or just hollowed out. We can make it happen for you using our customizable boutique bio-weapons, we governments and we private companies. We cooperate and work closely with you to get the job done, your job, whatever that is so long as it does not affect us. We’re signing contracts starting now . . . .
No wonder “world leaders / influencers” want this movie gone: it treats of what they are doing, and it’s not satire. And it’s not gone, not yet, while it’s price for CD is now half or less of the original asking price, depending, I suppose, on the vendor.
(I have no financial or other interest in movie-related companies beyond wanting them to let good people make fine movies, such as No Time To Die very clearly is. I am a retired bus driver classically trained as a theologian.)
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Markandeya held tight the Shivalinga and so, Yama’s noose bound both himself and Shiva; that was the reason the boy was saved. The story teaches you to be ever in contact with God, for you do not know when the noose will be thrown. Attach yourself to the Highest, call it by any name, or conceive it in any form. But remember, without Dharma (righteousness) you cannot attain it. Don’t be led away into the by-paths; keep to the highway. If you yield to alpabuddhi (inferior thoughts), you will be losing the akhanda-tatwa (principle of the Universal). Learn the means of winning Grace and earning purity from those who know – that is, the elders and the scholars who have put their learning into practice. Don’t despair; don’t hesitate. Grace can wipe off the past; Sat-prayatna, Sat-sangaand Sadachara (good self-effort, good company, and good practices) can ensure happiness in future.
