Whistleblower - you'll be hard to tell

Shyann 2022-03-22 09:02:11

do not lie.
The one who has the last laugh is the real winner.
Mark fooled everyone with his flaws, and maybe this is where he is really smart and makes himself a real winner. I think that being able to cover up one's intelligence with stupidity is the real intelligence.
I don't think that in the end Mark couldn't tell the truth from a lie, he was like a mirror in his heart. Or maybe he was really immersed in his own lies and couldn't extricate himself? I'm also a bit squeamish.
The movie is a bit torturous, and the soundtrack is interesting.

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  • Mark Whitacre: I read this study in Time magazine when I was at Cornell, which is an Ivy League school, and there were people, including my mother, who never believed I would make it into an Ivy League school. Maybe Ginger, who I met in marching in the eighth grade. And the study said people had nice, sympathetic feelings about people who were adopted, and treated them better. So I made up this adoption story, and people *did* treat me better. And when I got a job, one of my professors told people at Ralston Purina that I was this amazing guy that had accomplished all this in spite of being adopted. And so it was really *other* people who spread the story, not me. Although I admit it was wrong to start it and everything, it was other people who kept it going, even the people at ADM.

  • Mark Whitacre: Mark Whitacre, secret agent 0014.

    Rusty Williams: Why 0014?

    Mark Whitacre: Cause I'm twice as smart as 007.