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I went to see THe Good Shepherd for a second time...

Posted by dave c (A) on March 9, 2007 at 15:20:22

OK, it was actually a mistake and I had forgotten going to a preview a month before as I realised 2 seconds into the opening, but I decided to stay and found it zipped past (not bad for a film nudging 3 hours) and was more involving as I could overlook the curious non-aging work done to the actors faces.
Instead I got a deeper look into the plot and enjoyed it so much more.
Different parts, in particular the paranoia of the American establishment, not to mention the homo-erotic nature of the "boys' club" that these curious young men join...
Also the recurrent theme from the score, so reminiscent of Farmer In The City, Scott Walker's song of the murder of Passolini.
And the line, not the one that the CIA (sorry, not THE CIA, just CIA) should be America's eyes and ears not its heart and soul, but that it was the clerks who gave Hitler his power, as the legions of faceless workers in gray raincoats arrive for work.
On a second viewing De Niro has produced a significant movie.
And very interesting to see the scenes in Berlin at the end of WW2 the day after seeing The Good German.
They make an interesting pairing.

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