A Most Curious Film

"It appears we are equal... in the eyes of spies. Equal... but not even." 
                                 From Die Another Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bAMpQId5QI

I simply had to share this, a song that sings to many individuals' hearts as of late.. So many secrets, yet undiscovered...


      The movie Die Another Day, a quite interesting story of betrayal and espionage, truly struck a note with me, and I'm sure my dear Hammie as well. He has spoken to me at length about the passing events, and he is quite excited a the prospect of this plot of his. The Queen and King had asked our old friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to "gather so much as from occasion as you may glean"(2.2.15-16). This alone would have been enough to drive our reeling Lord Hamlet into a fit of anger, but to add insult to injury, they tried to lie to his face after he quite clearly made it known that he was in on their plot.
      In this movie of spies and lies, James Bond is betrayed in the beginning by Miranda Frost, to whom he was relatively close. I am assuming the sense of betrayal pushed Hamlet to hatch a plot of his own. Hamlet has decided to perform a mental feint, so to speak, and act absolutely insane to anyone who is trying to worm out his intentions, and the reasons behind his grief. He will put on an "antic disposition"(1.5.58), to throw people off of his trail. Yet, another thing troubles me more. He has told me only a little bit of a plan; a plot to jar the king, surprise him, shock him into showing, not telling, us of his guilt. Oh, how did he say it?... Yes, that's right. "The play's the things wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King"(2.2.616-617). He seems so very sure of the King's guilt. Yet I commend him for taking such a measure as to make sure of the guilt. Tis' the mark of an otherwise intelligent and benevolent ruler. If only such a sign not been derived from the pit of revenge that he seems to find himself in.