International joke

Karson 2022-01-03 08:01:44

Mark has assisted the FBI as a senior employee of the company and a secret intelligence officer for a long time. It is not easy for a normal person. In the beginning, Mark's explanation was based on his sense of justice as a biologist, so he decided to stand on the side of morality that he believed to be correct. This kind of plausible reason, even under the premise of cognition of commercial crime, unless Mark is as honest and stupid as he seems, there must be far-reaching significance for Matt Damon to play this role.
If you understand Matt's acting history, you should see that Matt Damon's silly appearance almost has such a deceptive talent. Soderberg installed a lot of elements on Matt that made him look more stupid this time, such as fat, ridiculous hairstyle, clumsy nose, etc., as well as those talk show-like narration passages, in the original The heavy story material is smeared with a few black joys. But just like the previous tips given by "Genius Ripley", under this appearance is a more complicated and unpredictable heart. The so-called justice is always deceived by the true desires behind the protagonist, and there are multiple identities. . The speculative activity and instability of Mark in the character, as well as the imaginary world that seems to be irrelevant to the theme, all imply that this person is probably playing with everyone while playing with himself.
Mark’s mentality has already placed himself in an illusory and paradoxical world of lies in advance, so the occurrence of various possibilities in this world will not be so blunt to him, and he can act like opening up with everyone. It's a joke. For example, fabricating one's own life experience, fabricating a Japanese profiteer out of thin air. The black tone of the film was well grasped from the beginning, and the effect of the soundtrack also reminds you that this is a comedy. So if someone takes extra trouble to figure out what happened in this long-winded language, the idea itself can also teach people joy.

View more about The Informant! reviews

Extended Reading

The Informant! quotes

  • 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.