The informant (The Informant!)

Shana 2022-01-03 08:01:44

"The New York Times" reporter Kurt Eichenwald adapted the real events of former ADM vice president Mark E. Whitacre into the novel "The Whistleblower" in 2001. In 2009, Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns worked together to put the novel on the big screen, with Matt Damon, who gained nearly 30 pounds, as the informer. So I realized that Robert Downey Jr. actually had no right to laugh at Matt at the Golden Globes, even though he was just joking. This naive uncle was born on Labor Day in 1957 in the same year as my father.

The film has three advantages: the drama of abuse, the black humorous narration and the excellent performance of a group of actors. Needless to say, Matt Damon, as the plot progresses, I can't help but think of two other amazing characters Leonardo DiC in "Cat and Mouse Game" and Edward Norton in "First Fear", but Matt Damon is better than Those two seem to be more pure and kind. The director even brought in comedians like Tom Papa, Patton Oswalt, Tom and Dick Smothers, and Paul F. Tompkins. When the plot of these supporting characters co-authored the movie appeared around Fat Matt, a bean friend made such a comment, "From the second half, the face of each supporting character is a 囧字".

The narration is another highlight of the film. Whenever the scene jumps, there will be a lot of trivial and interesting narrations, which are actually some rather boring ideas of Mark. The nagging narration also hinted at Mark's bipolar disorder and the fact that he is not as kind as he seems. When you think Mark is just having a big tongue, Matt laughs. He is like a polar bear, covering his big black nose and hiding it on the white ice, waiting for an opportunity to hunt. But why does the polar bear know that its nose is black? Is it an instinct to lie?

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  • 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.