The Good Shepherd (Widescreen Edition) | Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon

The Good Shepherd (Widescreen Edition) | Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon | For Sophisticated Tastes

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	The Good Shepherd (Widescreen Edition) Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon Universal Studios, 2007 average customer review:based on 257 reviews view larger image
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Matt Damon Angelina Jolie and Robert De Niro star in this powerful thriller about the birth of the CIA. Edward Wilson (Damon) believes in America and will sacrifice everything he loves to protect it. But as one of the covert founders of the CIA Edward s youthful idealism is slowly eroded by his growing suspicion of the people around him. Everybody has secrets...but will Edward s destroy him? With an all-star cast including Alec Baldwin Billy Crudup William Hurt Timothy Hutton and John Turturro it s the gripping story David Ansen of Newsweek hails as "spellbinding."System Requirements:Runtime: 168 mins Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: R UPC: 025192867125 Manufacturer No: 61028671

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Brilliant Movie

The more I view this movie, the more I see how brilliant it is and how magnificant the subdued acting truly is.

Of course this movie didn't do well at the box office, especially in the culture we live in, where happy endings are no less demanded as well as expected, and where blatant action and spoon fed scripts are lauded.

Kudos to everyone who was part of this film: An understated masterpiece.

For Sophisticated Tastes

This film will find a passionate audience among those looking for an intellectual, adult and intense experience.

Shepherd

Interesting, if disquieting, view of the kind of organization apparently necessary to a nation to stay afloat in today's world: Situation ethics; disposable loyalties; diverse and highly sophisticated technological tools; unswerving but troubling idealisms; personal costs to participants in anguish and guilt; incremental compromises of original principles; patriotic ruthlessness.... Our eventual realization that both our friends and our enemies have similar organizations, for similar reasons, creates in us, the viewers, a more-in-sadness-than-in-anger awareness that parallel organizations have probably always existed and, of necessity, probably always will. The film's dialogue is often muffled, oblique, and hard to understand---in keeping with its atmosphere of secrecy---but the viewer thereby tends to lose the detail thread of what's going on at the moment. A film to watch several times, but not one where the viewer ends up envying the participants' lives.

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