Paula Duran / Roundup
Matt Damon definitely gained more than 25 pounds and took his job very serious. Even though, Damon did a great job; the movie needed more to convince you to not think that Matt Damon went fat for no good reason. What it is more it makes you wandering what happened with the handsome guy behind those extra pounds.
The Informant is a dark comedy where Mark Damon plays Mark Whitacre, an executive biochemist at Archer Daniels Midland a corporation based in Illinois. A company responsible for the world’s food full of corn products. There are some price-fixing happening inside the company and involving international pharmaceutical’s industries. When Whitacre notices the situation, he starts collaborating with the FBI and gives two years of his life to confirm the illegal business. “I’m double agent 0014,” Whitacre assumes and says with dignity. And then he adds “because I’m twice as good as 007
The movie develops to scenarios: one in Whitacre’s head which it really represents the comedy, and the other one is the real thing happening in his real life. He seems to have the perfect life. He plays to be a successful guy with a beautiful family, nice house, great job, and love. But the funny part is that he is nothing but what he thinks he is. His life is just a lie that it seems to be normal but it is not.
The situation goes further that When FBI agents require evidence of his claims, Whitacre becomes a secret agent of nature, wearing a wire and conducting meetings in conference rooms rigged with hidden cameras. But as the agents crack the case, they’re frustrated to find out that Whitacre has at best a movable relationship with ethics and the truth.
Unfortunately, for the FBI, their lead witness hasn’t been quite so approaching about helping himself to the corporate coffers. Whitacre’s continually changing explanations frustrates the agents and pressures the case against ADM as it becomes almost impossible to make sense of what is real and what is the product of Whitacre’s incoherent imagination.
It was funny but not too funny. It was weird very weird. However, it really sounds like corporate America of today still.