The Breakdown
- Practical effects and real locations carry the tension
- Single authorial voice from Fleming and Young
- Heroic competence without modern apology
- 1962 pacing feels deliberate to modern eyes
- Evil shown as cold and costly, not stylish
Side Effects
ancestors filing approval paperwork, zero lectures
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