For this reason, The Informant! makes for a fine companion piece to the Coen brothers’ intelligent agency farce Burn After Reading. Most astonishing of all is that the FBI got strung along for the ride. As Soderbergh lovingly peels away veil after veil of deception, the film develops into an unexpected human comedy. Enjoy this hand-picked retrospective curated by Festival Co-director. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. With Whitacre living out his James Bond fantasies in real time, Soderbergh effectively exploits Whitacre’s deluded state to create a film which, although based in the 1990s, screams Bond era 1960s in its use of groovy soundtrack and graphics. SBS On Demand is a proud partner of the 2023 Screenwave International Film Festival. A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Rambling narration provided by Damon not only shakes up the over used plot device, but also cues the viewer into Whitacre’s diminished mental state. ![]() Based upon the 2000 non-fiction novel of the same name. That the film lives and dies on Damon’s performances is power to his work as an actor, with The Informant! less a true crime story and more a delve into the psyche of this most peculiar and empathetic man. Steven Soderberghs satire The Informant tracks the story of corporate whistleblower, Mark Whitacre. Said man is Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), a well to do biochemist and vice president of ADM, an agricultural food processing conglomerate which took a big hit for price fixing, thanks to Whitacre’s playing informant for the FBI, of which this movie depicts.ĭamon affirms his credentials as a fine character actor, the Bourne star gaining weight and donning wig and spectacles, in his equally comedic and tragic depiction of a dork playing out his espionage fantasies. But instead of creating a tense thriller involving corporate malpractice and character assassination (something like a The Insider 2.0), director Steven Soderbergh has opted to play it for laughs and succeeds in doing so, delivering a constantly amusing and often bewildering film about one man and his derailment of one of the biggest corporations from the inside. Based on a true story, this movie is never what it seems. The Informant! is based on true events, involving the exposure of one of the biggest white collar crimes in American history. ![]() Directed by Andrea Di Stefano, it is a cinematic adaptation of Swedish writing-duo Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrm’s 2009 novel ‘Three Seconds. A story so bizarre it must be true, The Informant! gives a twist to the espionage sub-genre, and establishes Matt Damon as one of his generations best actors. ‘The Informer’ is a well-executed and well-acted thriller that effortlessly maintains the all-important sense of suspense throughout its entire runtime. The movie star, that mysterious creature whose blinding charisma pulls everyone into its irresistible orbit, is becoming an endangered species.
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