Of course, instead of deconstructing that set of rambling Christian doctrines, the theme of this film seems to be much simpler and clearer. Imperialism (now an oligopoly) will never die. The FBI is a bunch of bastards who usually go overboard and tear down bridges when things go wrong. (The person who tapped my phone? No, that's the FBI, we don't do local surveillance... Why is it still this way for so many years) and, the liar will never end well!
He is also a top liar who is good at pretending to be innocent and pitiful. Different from the fledgling young man in Ripley, this time Matt Damon plays a middle-aged, fat and bald successful man who has gained 30 pounds. Not to mention the strange nose, even the hair on the forehead was shaved. The last time I joined the CIA fashion was a talented young man who was talented and talented. It was so depressing to be a tainted witness for the FBI. The general hostility to the FBI in the American TV series is not unreasonable. But this uncle Mark, who is wearing outdated square glasses and can't stop reading, won the trust of not only the audience with his heartless image - no need for spoilers, and it can be seen that he was lying from the beginning, and he couldn't help it. to make excuses for what he did. There is also the slack of the FBI. In the second half of the film, when several agents are seen to be devastated by Mark's big lie, although it is funny, they also feel helpless.
This tale of commercial fraud and personal moral decay is actually quite heavy, and ditching the dark humour and Matt Damon's neurotic monologue could well be another Syriana. Soderbergh can find a balance between reality and fiction and swim like a duck in water, which is his forte, but just like Mark in the film deceives everyone, including colleagues and accomplices, for profit, The director also had to use a deliberately misleading method to explain the plot, which was almost all lies, so that even the only question in the whole film that seemed to come from the heart seemed so unbelievable.
If what you see with your eyes and what you hear with your ears is false, what is there to believe. In the eyes of modern people, Judas, who betrayed Christ for thirty silver coins, is not necessarily more selfish than Peter, who denied the Lord three times. The perpetual crucifixion of Judas to the Pillar of Shame was probably because people could not accept the noblest purpose of sacrificing for all mankind, even if fate dictated that it was based on the actions of a whistleblower for self-interest, without Judas' betrayal. There will be no miracle of the resurrection of the Son of Man afterward. The so-called individualism of the Western values, in the judgment of the unrighteous, is surprisingly similar to the Eastern morality.
Mark finally spent nine years behind bars and was unable to obtain amnesty, and ADM, who was suspected of price manipulation, was also punished accordingly. Soderbergh doesn't want to dig too deep into human nature and leave the choice in the hands of the audience. You can think that he is a victim of business rules, or that he is destined to lie because of his egoism. No matter what he chooses to believe, as an informant, or a betrayer, or even just a liar, Mark has his unavoidable crime and punishment.
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