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The Good Shepherd (2006)
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The Good Shepherd is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 film directed by
Robert De Niro (his second directorial effort after A Bronx Tale) and starring
Matt Damon and
Angelina
Jolie, with an extensive supporting cast. The film was rated "R" for "some violence, sexuality and language" by the MPAA. Although it is a fictional film loosely based on real events, it is advertised as telling the untold story of the birth of counter-intelligence in the Central Intelligence Agency. It is a Morgan Creek Productions film distributed by Universal Pictures. The film's main character, Edward Wilson (played by Damon), is loosely based in part on James Jesus Angleton and Richard M. Bissell, Jr.. William Hurt's character, Phillip Allen is based on Allen Dulles, and General Bill Sullivan, played by Robert DeNiro, is loosely based on Major General William Joseph Donovan.
The movie begins in 1961 with Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) commuting to work on the day before the Bay of Pigs Invasion. A young boy approaches him and asks for change for his dollar. Arriving at work he uses the serial number from the dollar to decipher a message, which sets the tone for the rest of the film. The serial number is associated with the word "Cardinal".
The stage is set for the main plot of the movie, which begins with the failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion due to an informer or leak of some kind. Later, a photograph and a recording on reel to reel tape are dropped off anonymously to Edward.
The narrative cuts to one of the many flashbacks of Edward's life, this time to 1939, where he is attending Yale College and is asked to join Skull and Bones, a secretive Yale society, one of whose principal purposes is to create a bond among future leaders of the United States trained at Yale. During an initiation ritual he talks about witnessing, as a young boy, his father's (Timothy Hutton) suicide. Edward hides the suicide note from his family but does not read it.
The narrative also introduces Edward's poetry professor Dr. Fredericks (Michael Gambon), who reads a poem that he says he is having trouble finishing, and Laura (Tammy Blanchard), a student who is deaf (presumably enrolled at one of the specialized schools of Yale) and whom Edward starts dating after meeting her in the library. Fredericks makes subtle sexual advances on Wilson, which Wilson ignores. Wilson is recruited by an FBI agent, Sam Murach (Alec Baldwin), to find out who Frederick's associates are in his pro-German groups, which Murach believes are a cover for a Nazi spy ring. Wilson does so and when Fredericks is asked to leave the university, Wilson justifies betraying his mentor based on the fact that the poem was plagiarized, and so Fredericks betrayed him first.
Edward attends a Skull & Bones retreat on Deer Island in 1940 and meets Clover Russell (Angelina Jolie), the sister of a Bonesmate and daughter of a U.S. Senator, and General Bill Sullivan (Robert DeNiro), a powerful military intelligence official. Sullivan asks him to join the Office of Strategic Services and offers him a post in London. During a dinner party, Clover seduces him.
Some time later, Edward is informed by Clover's brother that she is pregnant, and although Edward is in love with another woman (Laura), he feels compelled to marry her. During their wedding reception, a man in uniform comes to see Edward and asks if he is still interested in seeing the world. He accepts and tells his new wife that he is to be sent off to England in one week, where he spends the next six years. He meets British intelligence Officer Arch Cummings (Billy Crudup) and OSS officer Richard Hayes (Lee Pace). To his surprise, he also meets Fredericks, his old poetry professor, who it turns out is a member of British Intelligence; Fredericks' German-American Bund activities at Yale had actually been an undercover operation sponsored by the British government to infiltrate Nazi organizations. The FBI and Edward's betrayal of his professor had ruined two years of espionage work. Despite this, Fredericks recognized his former student's gifts and recommended Edward be brought into the London office, where he would tutor him in counterespionage.
Cummings reveals to Edward that British Intelligence is increasingly concerned about the state security risks posed by Fredericks, a homosexual with numerous, indiscriminate relationships that leave him and the government highly vulnerable. He asks Edwards to speak with Fredericks and convince him to give up all things questionable. Fredericks, however, refuses his protege's advice and tells him to "quit the dirty work" while he can, while he "still has a soul." Frederick also tells Edward that he will understand if Edward wants to "tie his shoe" - apparently code for "cleaning up (eliminating) the problem." He then kneels down to tie Edward's shoelace, noting that Edward should buy new shoes. Shortly after the conversation, Frederick is killed and thrown into a canal.(It is subtly suggested that he is sodomized with his walking stick prior to his death.)
The timeline then moves to post-war Berlin. The Allies and the Soviets are each trying to gather as many German (Nazi) scientists as possible, ostensibly in their race to achieve advances in science and technology. At an old bombed-out church, Edward meets his Soviet counterpart, codenamed "Ulysses." Ulysses informs Edward that Edward's Russian codename is "Mother" and lauds Edward as a formidable adversary.
Edward is shown interviewing potential German informants with the aid of a female German interpreter. This interpreter, who comes into daily contact with the most secret American actions in occupied Berlin, wears what appears to be a hearing aid device. It seems to intrigue Edward.
The interpreter later cooks dinner for Edward and the two have a sexual encounter. Edward notices that the interpreter has removed her hearing aid and appears to hear well without it; it appears to be some sort of spy device. She has been a Soviet operative in the heart of OSS activities in Germany. The next scene shows the German interpreter being shot, with no indication of who is responsible for the shooting. But Ulysses finds the presumed hearing aid inside his teapot, an apparent gift from the OSS. It is one of the sequence of deaths that Edward will be responsible for in the film.
Edward returns home after having been out of the United States for six years and meets his son, Edward Jr., for the first time. He gives him a ship he made and put in what looks like a glass watch casing. After an awkward if not cold greeting, his wife informs him that she no longer goes by the name "Clover" and is now "Margaret." She asks that the two sleep in separate beds until they get to know one another again. Edward asks how her brother and his fellow Skull and Bones member, John, is doing; she informs him that he was killed in Burma in 1944. Both Margaret and Edward acknowledge their infidelities during the long separation.
Sullivan approaches Edward again to help form a foreign intelligence organization and wants Edward to work with Hayes and under Allen. As life continues, his son grows up and Edward's relationship with his wife grows more distant. One evening, when friends of his wife come for dinner, they ask if he really works for the CIA. Edward replies that his wife has a "vivid imagination" and that he is just a civil servant at the trade office.
Edward is given an assignment to interview Valentin, a Russian requesting asylum and claiming to be a high ranking official who knows Edward's counterpart in the Soviet government, Ulysses. Edward attends a production of The Cherry Orchard with Valentin, who claims it is a bad translation. At the theater Edward encounters Laura, his college sweetheart, who has remained single "with a cat." Laura admits to dreaming of what their lives would have been like together; she thinks Edward would have taught poetry at a small liberal-arts college in a college town. They return to her house and end up sleeping together.
Soon after, at a Skull and Bones retreat, Clover anonymously receives pictures depicting Laura and Edward during their romantic encounters. She loudly interrupts the traditional S&B dinner, throws the pictures at Edward and leaves him. Edward breaks a date with Laura by sending his assistant to return a cross he'd kept of hers when they were college sweethearts.
Meanwhile, Edward gets a call from a Soviet defector (Mark Ivanir) stating that he is the real Valentin Mironov and the person who they know as Valentin is a fake: his real name is Yuri Modin, a KGB operative working for Ulysses. Edward does not believe him and his men torture the Russian to find out his true identity. They give him liquid LSD which causes him to behave erratically before ultimately restating that he is Valentin Mironov and committing suicide by jumping through a glass window. This is a reference to an actual event wherein a US Army scientist (Frank Olson) died in a similar way, allegedly as a result of his unwitting participation in CIA conducted LSD experiments called MKULTRA.
Edward visits Edward, Jr., at Yale, where he has also been tapped by Skull and Bones. He tells his father he has been approached by the CIA and that he wants to sign up. Edward tells his son it's a difficult life and tries to talk him out of it--something Margaret tearfully urges him to do. But Edward, Jr., who throughout the film is concerned with becoming closer to the father he did not know for the first six years of his life, is adamant. Edward and Margaret argue over the issue, adding to their highly conflicted relationship. During the argument, Edward reveals that his son was the only reason why they had married. Edward, Jr. joins the CIA after Edward refuses Margaret's request to have his application denied. At another Skull & Bones party on Deer Island, it is revealed that Margaret's father (a US Senator) has died and that Margaret is going to Arizona to live with her mother. During this same party, Edward has a discussion with Hayes regarding the upcoming Bay of Pigs Invasion. Edward, Jr., overhears the discussion, and Edward tells him that he cannot repeat what he overheard to anyone.
Time passes. After analyzing the photograph and tape that had been dropped off anonymously at Edward's house earlier in the movie, the CIA officials make a number of findings. The photo depicts a Caucasian man and an African woman. They deduce that there is a church belfry with three bells, the ceiling fan is of Belgian origin, the window curtains have a baobab tree design and the design of the stone balustrade on the balcony. They are unable to identify a blurred item on the nightstand which they feel might be significant. Over time they discern more details from the audio tape. They distinguish church bells, a plane flying overhead, the woman's French accent, and the use of "cochinos", the Spanish word for "pigs". They also determine that the track has been tampered with to make some of the dialogue indiscernible. From these clues, they figure it is possible for the photo to have been taken in three places, all in Africa, one of those places being Leopoldville, in the Congo.
Edward goes to the Congo and tracks down the room. Edward realizes it is Edward, Jr. who is in the film because the object on the nightstand that the CIA could not identify in the photograph was actually a container holding the ship in a glass watch casing that Edward given to his son many years earlier, after his OSS work in London. Ulysses has apparently been awaiting Edward's arrival at the scene. He plays the unedited recording of the liaison that has been the focus of the CIA analysis.
This time the audio clearly reveals Edward, Jr. relating the information he overheard his father, Hayes and Allen discussing at the earlier Skull & Bones party to his female companion. Ulysses then informs Edward that the African woman is a Soviet spy who has truly fallen in love with Edward's son. Ulysses encourages Edward to protect his son by spying for the Russians in return. Edward is noncommittal; he confronts his son, who says that he is in love with the woman and plan to be married. Edward tells him she is a spy, but he won't believe his father and leaves.
In the next scene, Edward exposes Valentin as a spy for the Russians after finding evidence in the binding of the book Ulysses by James Joyce, which contained not only a passport showing the real name of Valentin but also a recording device. This discovery also exposes Arch Cummings a co-conspirator of Valentin's, since it was Cummings who in an earlier scene gave this book to Valentin as a seemingly benign, clever gift playing on Valentin's knowledge of Ulysses, the Russian spy. As Arch and Edward speak over the phone after Valentin's cover is blown, Edward says, "Your worst fear has come true. Alone and friendless, without a country of your own."
Edward is shown in a public scene at the Smithsonian with Ulysses where he declines the offer to run counter-intelligence for the Russians. Ulysses notes of Edward's son's fiancée: "neither of us can be sure about her", but acknowledges that "you want her to be part of your family." Ulysses' flunky wants to buy a souvenir but claims not to have the correct change. Edward gives him a dollar bill as gift from the U.S. government, saying "It's a cardinal rule to be generous in a democracy" implying the flunky is a double-agent based upon the dollar exchange on the bus at the beginning of the movie.
Edward convenes with Margaret and Edward, Jr. in their son's Congolese room prior to the wedding ceremony. Sensing the tension, Edward, Jr., offers to pour champagne for them. His parents both toast Edward Jr.'s happiness. The film shows the fiancée boarding a small plane with her wedding dress in hand. In mid-flight, the crew opens the door and throws the bride out of the plane. Later, Edward, Jr. and the wedding party await the bride's arrival at the church. Edward, who arrives late, informs his son of the death of his fiancée. The film implies that this is something that Edward arranged. Margaret screams at Edward, "What have you done?" Edward, Jr. calmly asks his mother to go inside the church. He turns to his father and tearfully asks if he had anything to do with the death. Edward says no, and emotionally embraces his son, who reveals that she was pregnant. Edward is both shocked and saddened, presumably by the knowledge that his unborn grandchild was killed.
Upon returning home, Edward opens his father's sealed suicide note, which he has never read until now. His father's words reveal that he had betrayed his country. He had left words of love for his wife and son Edward, particularly imploring his son to be a good man and live a life of decency and truth. The film ends with Allen's resignation as CIA director under a cloud of financial improprieties, and Edward entering his new office, a special wing built at CIA headquarters where he will be the first head of counter-intelligence, working for his fellow Skull and Bones classmate, Hayes, who will be the new CIA director.
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