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Definitely enjoying getting mail so often. Yesterday the card reader and diffuser arrived. Today my new hard drive arrived. It also means my bro delivers the stuff to me, we go for coffee and I have someone to photograph.
We both got coffee and muffins yesterday. Then went to see The Good Shepherd. We had planned to see TMNT, though I got the times mixed up and we missed it. I have wanted to see The Good Shepherd since it came out, expecting to to be really good. Instead it was very long, extremely boring and often hard to follow.
From thelondonpaper.com:
There’s a point during The Good Shepherd where you’ll ponder suicide. It’s roughly half an hour in. Then you’ll doubt the meaning of existence (40 minutes), wonder if it’s still the same season outside (one hour), convince yourself zombies now rule the earth (2 hours 18 minutes), and suggest to the person next to you that you must eat the man in row five to survive.
Thats pretty much how it was. Restlessly rearranging myself in my seat to stop my ass going completely numb, I tried to stay completely interested. It was hard.
Following Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) through his life as a CIA agent. He marries Margaret Russell (Angelina Jolie) after she becomes pregnant, though soon after he is sent to London. When he returns six years later, his son doesn’t know him and wife barely knows him.
For some reason she stays with him for 25 years of distant marriage. Edward is married to his job rather than his family.
He’s a closed-mouthed, stony-faced, mannequin-man with all the sense of humour of a post. She could marry a hat-stand and have more laughs. Jolie suffers for 25 agonising years in a loveless marriage – and the audience isn’t far behind. (thelondonpaper.com)
One thing that stood out about the film is how it deals with the chronology of events. Switchings back and forth and time often, even going from April to March in quick succession, and adding even more confusion Matt Damon just doesn’t age at all making it even harder to tell.
[edited] Although I don’t I don’t see it being a problem, as the people around me are more important to me than anything else, this film just instilled made me aware of how imporant this is. Constantly trying to strive to become a good person and treat those around me well, this film shows very clearly how neglecting those closest to your can cause the eventual breakdown of these relationships.
There was a moral there - it just took a hell of a long time to get there.
Maybe it was silly of me to think it would be anything like the Bourne series and just hold on until the Summer for the final installment.
[It was brought to my attention through the comment by Ronan that I worded the above paragraph terribly, so I have re-worded it slightly; though not changing the point I was making.]
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