The Good Shepherd

The Good Shepherd

I was lost the first two hours of this movie and I kept getting irritated because I did not know what the hell was going on but I chose to persevere and muddled my way through it!

I think my perseverance paid off and I was nicely rewarded with some light on the matter. Okay, first let me just say that I’m still not entirely sure of what was going on even after watching the movie but since I watched it and you’re here to read my opinion on it, deal with it!

I won’t call it boring but its……..confusing. There is no warning when you are taken back to the past and because there is no obvious change in the character (clothes, hairstyle, a younger looking face) or the look and feel of the film (black and white, sepia, spots), you are not sure if the scene is taking place in the present or the past and because it is so, you need to seriously pay attention to what is being said. But then again, that is really hard to do because when people from the C.I.A talk, its so fuckin soft, that your heart thumping in your chest is louder.

Okay, back to the movie, so Matt Damon plays this Edward Wilson guy who meets this hearing challenged girl and they go out then he fucks Jolie (Clover) and gets her pregnant the first time, hurrah!

So he has to marry her “because it’s the right thing to do”. Then he disappears for like 6 years and we get to see people in long overcoats and hats talking in dark shadowy places using words that don’t go together in hushed whispers. These people are De Niro who also doubles up as director, William Hurt, Alec Baldwin, Billy Crudup with a put on, see through British accent.

So blah blah, and then Edward has to choose between his loyalty to his country or his family. Don’t ask me why, I won’t tell!!

A few things to look out for:

• Timothy Hutton!!! As Wilson’s dad.

• The conversation between Wilson’s character and Joseph Palmi (Joe Pesci) who only shows his face for this conversation:

Palmi: Let me ask you sumthin,
We Italians we got our families and we got the church.
The Irish they have their homeland.
The jews, their tradition, even the niggers, they got their music.
What about you people Mr. Carlson, what do you have?

Wilson: The United States of America, the rest of you are just visiting.
• Another conversation.

Hayes: I remember a senator once asked me, when we talk about C.I.A, why we never used the word ‘the’ in front of it. And I asked him do you put the word ‘the’ in front of God?

I don’t know what the fuck he’s talking about because I say THE C.I.A.



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