The Informant!
2009
Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Starring Matt Damon
Who could not like this film? Especially since it is based on truth?
The quirky display put on my Damon is entirely believable, and so the production of a ‘psychological model’ is carried off very well. The main character is telling the FBI about international price-fixing at his company, but he has nothing to gain from it, so it would seem, except satisfaction for his compulsion to talk and to produce the image of a yet more elaborate truth. And each moment, when you think you have been over-filled with truth – he brings you something new, until you cannot tell where the truth ends and the lies begin.
And so there we have it – a film with so much truth, and so many lies, that it outdoes everything else produced this year in sheer quantity of entertainment. And – it’s based on a true story.
Interviews with the real culprit can be found on this American Life:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1317
Viewed at a first run theatre, the Varsity, with LN and company. We all enjoyed. 2009_09.
