It’s a mesmerizing performance in a dryly hysterical film and Soderbergh has a soft-spot for this deluded character. They create a fantasy world of heroism and entitlement that Whitacre surely wants to believe and absolutely wants the rest of the world to understand on his terms. You can’t sort out the lies from the truth. But what makes him so slippery and fascinating is how effortless and consistent he is. It’s a brilliant dance of charm and delusion delivered with an amiable enthusiasm and wavering resolve and accompanied by a running stream-of-consciousness narration of constant distraction, pinging all over the place as he struggles to keep his secrets.Īs Soderberg reveals the chinks in his armor of altruism and service we come to realize he’s a compulsive liar. Matt Damon is a constant churn of gee-whiz earnestness, righteous indignation, nervous exasperation, and self-aggrandizing swagger as Whitacre, a wannabe hero with a lovingly loyal wife (Melanie Lynskey), a magnificent house, and a blazingly successful career that could all be put at risk by his cooperation with the Feds. Though based on a true story, The Informant! (2009) is not The Insider but a light-fingered take on corporate conspiracy transformed into a jaunty satire by filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Too bad he was also a compulsive liar and an embezzler caught up in delusions of grandeur and secret-agent fantasies. ![]() ![]() Biochemical engineer and corporate whistleblower Mark Whitacre might have been a national hero for his help in exposing international price fixing.
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