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2 December 2002
Bon Journal
James Bond: die another day
We know what to expect: James Bond saves the world, sleeps with another girl and lives until the next movie. Yet, we still go and see it all the same.
This latest one rides on the edge of reality. After the adrenalin rush, we calmly took apart the movie in the car, piece by piece.
I asked Jeremy's sister Allison, a general practitioner and a mother, whether she keeps up with the latest medical developments. "I mean, is it really possible to engineer a new face?" It is farfetched, yet the radio reports that whole face transformations (such as taking the face of a corpse) are medically possible within a few years.
"Could you really change an Asian face into a Caucasian? Change eye colour from brown to blue?" I asked.
Later I asked her husband Nigel, a molecular biologist and genetic engineer, whether any of that was possible. He replied that the dream machine isn't far from true. "We sleep so that we rest our bodies. Something like the dream machine could simulate what sleep does."
Robin, who had studied aeronautical engineering at university, remarked that the windsailing from below the glacier was quite incredible. I found it hard to believe how anyone would have the time to create a ski board and parachute while the glacier was crumbling.
While Jeremy kept praising Bond's new "invisible" car, I asked whether such reflectors existed. No was the unanimous reply.
What intrigued me most was not James Bond. I've seen Brosnan loads of times, but it was my first of Halle Berry. She was good looking and likeable. "Ah," said Nancy, Peter's wife, "she's taking a break from acting to save her marriage. I read that her husband is suffering from sexual addiction."
What an insult, I thought, to such a beautiful actress!
