ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded Central Intelligence Agency. While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold War paranoia present within the office. Eventually, he becomes an influential veteran operative, while his distrust of everyone around him increases to no end. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

This movie stars Matt Damon, Robert DeNiro, Angelina Jolie, Joe Pesci and Alec Baldwin and let me tell you, it is a fantastic movie. I would not be surprised if Robert DeNiro who directed, gets an Academy Award. The moive is long (3 hrs) but somehow, it goes by extremely fast. It is a very very good movie, not to be missed.

First Syriana and now The Good Shepherd. I feel there is a trend in well-made movies that are trying to make me feel historically uneducated. Though I probably missed half of what was really going on in this movie, I can still recommend it as one where you will enjoy how each scene is put together (even if I had a lot of trouble putting the scenes together into a storyline). Another movie I'll have to watch again. It's a plot, I tell you.

So far I am impressed with what Matt Damon has put out there from The Departed to The Good Shepherd