The Good Shepherd (2007, DVD)

Hi there,

Schlamozzel here with another Slumlord Brand (TM) review about a film that left many people dazed and confused.

This would be the feature film, Good Shepherd with Matt Damon, Robert DiNiro, Angelina Jolie, Joe Peschi, William Hurt and a whole bunch more.

This review reveals MAJOR details of what my life as drunkard was like. (Meaning that this movie was hard to follow along with unless you REALLY applied yourself.

This film, very well shot tells the story of how the CIA began. What it was born of, paranoya, the need for National Security, it dabbles in to the "Skull and Bones Society" of Yale University fame, cloak and dagger, sex, lies, truths, half-truths, helplessness, loneliness, abandonment, integrity, fear and isolation. In short, it pretty much describes American life in, "The Cold War Era".

The film begins in the "then" present day Kennedy administration during that playful trist, "The Bay of Pigs Invasion". Very quickly after the film's starting scenes, we return to the earlier portion of the 20th century when Matt Damon was in college. 1920's America, before the depression. Here we begin to see how a man becomes captivated, both body and soul by things both environmental and physical.

Then we go back to the Bay of Pigs for a confusing and hard to interpret few scenes which of course land us back in World War II. During this time we meet England and the "Bledgly Park" counter-intelligence types. Here we the public are educated as to how outsiders are used by English intelligence to mop up their internal messes. With a big sweep of the broom we find ourselves back in the CIA 3 or 4 days after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Now it is all becoming quite clear! Col. Mustard did it with Mrs. Robinson (Played by Anne Bancroft in, "The Graduate") while in the Skull and Bones retreat with the potted plant!

This part of the puzzle having now been solved we go whizzing back to just post World War II to meet people we now call, "Russians" who weave an iron curtain out of imaginary flax seed which, when cold-pressed creates rocket fuel to put missiles on Cuba.

So to re-cap... A kid goes to Yale, gets involved with freaks that are bone-less and are half drunk out of their skulls most of the time. Gets wrapped up in a film-noir "now you see it / now you don't because we're your government and we're telling you it doesn't exist" kind of thing. All while his wife, who by the way trolloped her way into their wedding stays at home and "Does Dallas" complete with the less than popular 1.0 kids.

See? It's all pretty much the standard, run of the mill flick. I myself rate this about a 9.4 on the Timmothy Leary scale.

Thanks for reading! I hope this "Epinion" helps you make an informed decision as to if you'd really want to subject yourself to this lunacy on celluloid.

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Cheers,

Schlamozzel