Thursday

As Alex pointed out, Matt Damon is fairly astute for an actor. In his recent interviews surrounding the UK premiere of the latest movie, he identifies where the character Bourne is better than Bond. Or, as he makes it clear, where Bourne is better suited to us than Bond - he knows that one day Bourne will be replaced by something else, too. He has said that importantly Bourne feels guilty, and that made me think about this - my crazy interpretation of the week: what if Jason Bourne is a metaphor for America? He suddenly wakes up, unaware of the terrible things he has done, people are trying to kill him and he doesn't know why. He has these amazing strengths and skills but isn't sure what to do with them. One thing he does know, however, is to kill the people that gave them to him. Is it working for you? There are giant weaknesses in it - that's why I call it crazy - but somehow it works a little. The only problem is that the first novel was written before September 2001. Anyway, I also wanted to say that I remember after the release of the first movie overhearing this bit of someone's conversation: 'yeah, I used to think Damon was a bit of a geek too, but he's hard in that film, really cool'.