Sunday, September 20, 2009

The Informant!

The Informant! was a bizarre narrative, folding and unfolding itself, unravelling all the while with the lies of Matt Damon's character.
The concept of truth and the changes that the audience undergoes in their opinion and image of Damon is insane. The subvocalization/narration is hilarious. The anecdotes are so awkward.
It reminds me of the way Daniel Coffeen started out class in Rhetoric 10– "Everything I say is a lie."

This movie asks the audience to judge the truth when the facts are constantly changing and being exposed as lies.

It really is worth a see. Some very funny parts. And I plan on grabbing the book, which lacks the exclamation point (or so I've heard) because the way the film was structured, it says "read the book, because there's more of these great little anecdotes that we didn't have time for in the movie."

No comments:

Post a Comment

visitors