‘The Good Shepherd’ Review: Matt Damon + Angelina Jolie
The Good Shepherd (2007, about 150 minutes) stars Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie and has short appearances by some other big stars, although I don’t know their names. Sorry.
What it’s about
Matt Damon is an unemotional CIA operative working 1940 – 1961. He marries the beautiful woman he made pregnant (Angelina) instead of the hard-of-hearing lady he loves, and is consequently unhappy. In his worklife Matt spies on the Russians then has to choose between his country and his son.
Even though it’s hard to follow, as the timeline zipps about backwards and forwards and Matt and Angelina’s appearance don’t change much, it’s nonetheless worth watching if you have a spare 150 minutes. It’s certainly not the kind of film that you can follow if you keep leaving the room to get a cup of tea, glass of wine and/ or bag of crisps. Probably it would become more clear after a second viewing, especially the sudden ending which I didn’t understand the significance of.
Let me know if you can throw any more light on what it was all about, or if you understand what the burning of the letter at the end meant?
Hi Lorna
Glad to hear Annie is completely better.
But are you sure you really were watching ‘The Good Shepherd’ because it made perfect sense to me when I saw it? Maybe you fetched one to many of those gasses of wine you spoke of, and that’s why it was zipping about.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:51 amHi Amelia’s Mummy
Actually, the bottle was empty the next day. But I can’t have drunk it all myself. James must have knocked it over, the clumsy so-and-so.
September 17th, 2007 at 11:29 am