Hamlet comments on The Bourne Legacy:
"Will you give yourself to this program?"
"Yes."
In The Bourne Legacy, Aaron Cross is an agent of a secretive program called Treadstone. He realizes that the people running the program are corrupt and are trying to kill all of the agents of the special programs created, including the one that Jason Bourne was once a part of. Aaron Cross uses his skills to try and avenge the many lives lost, save himself, all the while avoiding being caught by the continuous agents looking for him.
Aaron Cross, much like myself, was made to believe that the program that he would take part of was safe and honest.
Rather, it was rotten.
I can understand the frustration and anger that Cross faces as he realizes that there is close to nobody he can trust. It can be understood that those whom you do not trust, mere acquaintances, will use a "bait of falsehood...and indirections [to] find directions out" much like Polonius did when he sent two men to spy on Laertes (2.1.61-64) I myself felt that when "the good King and Queen have sent for [Guildenstern and Rosencrantz" to observe my actions without me knowing (2.2.272). Because of the espionage and the stress that comes from fulfilling a desire, "the beauty of the world; the paragon of animals... [seemed to be only the] quintessence of dust" (2.2.298-300). From what I understand, Cross also displayed a similar understanding once he retreated from the world for his safety. At least Aaron had Dr. Marta Shearing... I feel as though I am losing Ophelia.
Why does Ophelia listen so well to her father? Does she not understand that if he is Jephthah, she is the "daughter that [he loves] passing well" but will sacrifice in order to fulfill his duty to the thing and find the truth about my madness (2.2.389-390). Polonius is much like the villainous Edward Norton who will take any measures necessary to fulfill his goal of terminating Cross in his desire to preserve the program's rotten characteristics.
While Cross generally does put up a strong front, I best related to him when his weaknesses were shown. I understood his desire to shrivel himself into a corner and disappear. While I yell out in agony about how I am "a rogue and peasant slave", Cross tends to revert his pain inward as he tries to hold himself together in order to fulfill his goal. Much like him, I have to put up a front and present myself as strong, because only then will I be able to carry out the tasks necessary to remove the evil that plagues the Kingdom (2.2.521).
Because the espionage has resulted from each individual's unstoppable desire of fulfilling some goal, I believe that it is the fault of dishonest goal. An honest goal should inherently use honest means to obtain. However, in the case of the corrupt officials or my sly King Claudius, only dishonest goals exist. These are the goals that must eradicated for the secret intelligence agencies or Denmark to no longer be rotten.
Tweets:
- @Guiltystern and @LiarliarCrantzonFire I guess your loyalty lies with my parents over me #It'stoolatetosaysorry
- Because of @Guiltystern and @LiarliarCrantzonFire, I can't trust anyone any longer. Everything is rotten. #beautyoftheworldisquintessenceofdust #rotten
- @KingFraudius Staying strong so I can prove you wrong. #PokerFace #Stayin'Alive
- @Bolognius I will go mad if you sacrifice @DamselfOfDenmark just to find out what is making me mad #inception #love #Jephthah
- @Bolognius Using deception to find the truth about @FrenchForever #irony #He'sabigboy
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