THE INFORMANT: BOY ARE MATT DAMON'S PANTS ON FIRE
Mark Whitacre: When polar bears hunt, they crouch down by a hole in the ice and wait for a seal to pop up. They keep one paw over their nose so that they blend in, because they've got those black noses. They'd blend in perfectly if not for the nose. So the question is, how do they know their noses are black? From looking at other polar bears? Do they see their reflections in the water and think, "I'd be invisible if not for that." That seems like a lot of thinking for a bear.
I loved this film!!! No car crashes, chase scenes, drug using or foul language and I still loved it! Based on real life events and directed by Steven Soderbergh, Matt Damon is Mark Whitacre, the Vice President at an agricultural company, who decides to "blow the whistle" on his employers and their illegal price fixing practices. He joins with the FBI, Scott Bakula as Agent Brian Shepard and Joel McCale as agent Bob Herndon and begins an elaborate operation of recording conversations and meetings to strengthen the case. However, the FBI doesn't know that their star witness is Bipolar and his stories keep spinning a web so elaborate that even he can't keep track of what's real.
