God knows what Mark Whittaker (Matt Damon) thinks. A thriving, high-paying executive at the crop products giant Archer Daniel Smidland (ADM), he suddenly became a whistleblower. One night in November 1992, Whitaker revealed to the FBI that ADM had been conspiring with other competitors to fix the price of the food additive lysine, and that he was a participant in the joint pricing scheme. Maybe Whittaker thinks he's upright, and at the same time he's naively fantasizing that if ADM's executives go to jail, he'll be a future president. After more than two years of investigation and evidence collection, the FBI can finally prosecute. But what happened next was incomprehensible. ADM's defense attorneys discovered that Whitaker had embezzled a huge amount of public funds. In the face of questioning, Whittaker began to become incoherent, and the amount of embezzlement disclosed became larger and larger. Whitaker can't justify many events, and it's getting more and more absurd and unreasonable. He was eventually sentenced to nine years in prison, and although he was still the CEO of another company after his release, he was not given the powers of president. At the same time, it seems that the amount of his embezzlement is larger than previously confirmed.
Steven Soderbergh's black comedy "The Whistleblower" is based on a true story. Whittaker is played by Matt Damon, the muscular man of the past who has transformed into a middle-aged successful man in a suit and eyes, and he is also absolutely similar. This can not help but let us admire his acting skills. The film simultaneously shows two attitudes towards the incident: Whitaker is upright; Whitaker is a delusional embezzler. The event itself is intricate, and there is no way to tell the truth about two very different attitudes. So they are presented in front of the audience, and people can judge for themselves.
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