Hard to understand, but overall was a really great movie

Rating: 8/10 (18 May 2007)

I thought this movie overall was a really great movie. It was very hard for me to understand it as did not live in the time when this was set and do not know a lot about the history behind it. I know what I have read and been taught, but sometimes it is not enough. I watched it with my father who has been around for quite some time and he helped me to understand this movie. I think if it were not for that I would not have liked this movie as much, not because it was bad, but because it is so very difficult to understand. Though this movie was hard to understand, I love the fact that it is not your Hollywood blockbuster type of movie. This movie has a great way of letting the watcher get into the story, as it does not tell you everything and leaves a lot to the viewer for interpreting and understanding. To me this is good because I am one who enjoys movies that make you think instead of make you into a zombie watching what is put up on a screen. This movie was a bit boring as it was very quite at times and had times where it was hard to hear what people were saying, but I don't think this is a bad thing necessarily, as any sort of action would have been inappropriate for this situation. The reason the movie is called the good Shepard is because indeed these are the Shepard's that we were watching, the CIA and KGB and so on. The sheep dogs would be the army, and the sheep would be everyone else, controlled and fearing the army and the Shepard's. Though the sheep's posses the power of great numbers compared to the sheep dogs and the Shepard's, they do not use this power to their advantage. Great movie once again, I wish I knew more about it before I watched it, but I am glad I did watch it, as I came out of it with more knowledge.