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date: human, damaged, and all too understandable as a Lucifer/fallen angel imago who in his hubris overreached and, in the pain and bitterness of what transpired when doom befell him, has turned upon his maker. His only desire left is to bring the maker down. He perceives that he and Bond were the chosen sons, Cain and Abel, and that Mother M loved him best until she betrayed him, leaving him to suffer and die. Mommy was very bad, he tells Bond bad to both of them. Wont Bond join him in revenge? Bonds backstory takes James and M back to the ancestral home where he was orphaned to make a final stand. And in a sense the whole film is about the valor of continuing to make our stands in the face of time and age. At a government hearing where she is being berated for the apparent obsolescence of her agency, M responds by quoting Alfred, Lord Tennysons classic poem Ulysses: One equal temper of heroic hearts. Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. In the end Bond has indeed returned as a fuller human being who has learned something about love and loyalty, trust and sacrifice, aging and sustaining. Bond has become an adult. The Rev. Leonard Freeman, former director of communications for Trinity Wall Street and Washington National Cathedral, has written film reviews for more than 40 years. His aPoemaDay blog goes online in early 2013.