I must say that he is a very clever liar. His brilliant tricks are interlocking, constantly innovating, and pretending to be so precise that everyone ignores the possibility of him as a liar. Anyone who wants to lie, might as well learn from other people's tactics.
1. Transfer the target at the right time.
In fact, at the beginning, it was estimated that Mark did not want to cheat so much, but just wanted to blackmail the company. As a result, the company attracted the FBI in order to investigate the incident. Of course he knew that once the FBI intervened, things would not be easy to handle, so he turned around and asked the FBI to point the finger at the top of his company and put himself in the role of collaborator.
2. Pretend to be ignorant.
When the FBI felt that it had enough evidence to start an action against ADM, Mark said that I should still stay in the company. As soon as these words came out, the FBI people began to think that this person is so cute and stupid, how could such a stupid person do bad things.
3. Pretend to be the weak, and be sympathetic.
Obviously he told the FBI that it was his private telephone line that should be monitored, but he yelled at the company the next day that both lines of his home were being monitored. With such an injured appearance, the company executives thought that this comrade had sacrificed his privacy for the benefit of the company. What a good employee. At the same time, the company's senior executives realized that even the FBI was unreliable and untrustworthy, and immediately felt that Mark was in the same boat with the company. On the other hand, the FBI felt that this comrade might have been targeted by the company in order to cooperate with them, and it is really difficult to live a dual-identity life. The weak are always easier to be excluded from the scope of suspects.
4. Lies must be said to the bottom, for everyone, even the closest ones. When others can't tell when you are lying and when you are telling the truth, you will be able to deal with it easily.
But at the end, I suddenly felt that Mark was not very clever. In fact, he also wants to overthrow everything and return his life to a normal state, but there are always some people next to him, such as the FBI, insisting that he continue. When people identify a thing, they always hope that the final result will prove that what they believe is correct. And Mark was forced to deceive step by step. Sometimes you don’t need to be so smart. You just need to think about your next step. For the rest, there are many sayings: soldiers come to block, or the boat goes straight to the bridge, or the car has a way to the mountain.
I still can't decide whether Mark is extremely smart or general. Sometimes, the line between genius and mental patient is actually very blurred. Well, think about it carefully. In fact, he is still very clever, not in his lying skills, but in how to confuse a large group of people, but he quietly transferred ten million dollars to his account. It turns out that all that is visible is to cover the invisible activities.
If there were not so many stupid people in the film, this would be a better movie. But there are so many stupid people. For example, the lawyer who listened to Mark who was innocent when he described the incident, was an idiot and had a somewhat idol-like appearance; the one who was asked by Mark to write a strange name without even asking. Colleagues; and the two FBI agents who think they are upright and think about Mark, etc. But I am also very happy that this time the director did not use the shrewd and arrogant American image that has always been used in American movies, and it has become a lot more civilians. After all, most people in this world are stupid.
Last but not least, don't believe in film reviews. An average rating of 7.2 does not mean that this is an ordinary movie.
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