The film focuses more on trying to explore human nature than on the storytelling itself. From the beginning to the end, it seems like nothing to tell the audience that this person is a king of lies, this person is schizophrenic, this person suffers from bipolar disorder, this person’s lie is about to break, and he has to use cooperation to cover it up, and wait for an opportunity to make a bigger one lie. As the incident escalated further, he became a careerist, an embezzler, and a speculator. Then the bad things were exposed one by one, and finally he became a prisoner.
So people can see what will happen to me, even if this person is pitiful, but also helpless. So he let the fat, ugly and greedy disfigured Damon jump around like a clown on the stage or a dying fish on the chopping block. He wanted to see the conspiracy of the big company punished in the ending. to exercise judicial justice.
In the end, people got their wish.
I haven't gotten too into it, presumably because of that book.
The book does not clearly talk about Whitgart's own criminal problems, but tries to describe his pain when faced with the decision of whether to cooperate with the FBI, the thrill of his undercover collection of evidence from all sides, and the enormous pressure of his own double-sided life. . Readers are bound to be attracted by it, because these kinds of novels are constantly creating tension, and then adapting real events to strengthen the significance of the conspiracy itself, strengthen the reader's sense of exposing the conspirators in danger, and try to make the reader behave about it. identify.
So reading is a good experience. But watching this movie, if you haven't read the book, it is a half-commercial, half-artistic film that uses real events as gimmicks, crime/plot as packaging, and is used to explore modern business and human nature.
The problem is:
1. The story goes off the beaten path
. Many types of stories could have been trimmed out of this material, but it gave up the easy-to-manage genre film path of clichéd commercial crime, and asked for a different option.
2. Exploring the Surface
If it decided not to just unfold the layers of Whitgart's twisted personality, but to dig deeper into how he became what he became, it might have given the film a little more depth.
3 Matt Damon dominates
dozens of characters in the whole movie, but from the beginning to the end, I only remember the names of Mark, Ginger, Mick, and Brian (of course, there are reasons why English names are difficult to remember) , but even these few people who can remember their names have very vague characters. So, the whole movie is like Matt Damon directing, acting and talking to himself.
4 The narration is too bland
. There is basically a rhythm and a tone from the beginning to the end, there is no tension, and there is no climax, so the participation of the audience is greatly reduced.
The director is very good, but this film is undoubtedly one of his failures. Of course, no matter how unsuccessful, there are also bright spots. For example:
1 Dare to look at events that everyone knows from a unique perspective.
2 For the foreshadowing of the plot, from the initial narration to the various hints in the middle, they are trying to arouse the curiosity of the audience, and have made a lot of preparations for the subsequent splitting of Whitgart's personality.
3 I really like photography and post color correction.
Finally, like the fat, ugly and greedy Matt Damon in the film. For the film, he worked hard to gain weight (more than 50 pounds?, the specific data is to be checked), and his acting skills are in place, and he supported the whole film by himself. Hope he gets the title of actor he deserves soon (but the performance in this film is not enough).
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Looking back at why I used this title, probably because Whitgart was always unbelievable, because he was used to lies, his Life is a lie. So he couldn't even trust anyone anymore. Undoubtedly, he was pitiful in this regard.
And so was the event itself, unbelievable.
But the movie itself is not incapable of going further, deeper or better. SO, IT'S NOT INCREDIBLE.
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