Sunday 22 November 2009



Watched the film the Informant last night. Thought that it was quite possibly the best movie I'd seen this year. Firstly I must point out how well paced the movie is, as well as how fantastic the music is. Far from merely being an adjunct to the visuals, the music is an audio guide and pointer to how the audience should react to the movie itself.

The movie is a comedy, but darkly satirical, and scathing in its appraisal of corporate USA. The anti - hero is magnificently well played by Matt Damon, no more so in his portrayal of the leads' walk, which is inexplicably symbolic of the plight of our Informant, and would have no longer have been the butt of my ridicule and Team America 'Matt Damon' (insert comic voice), were it not for the preceding trailer previewing Matt in his next idiotic, me against everybody role.

The movie makes out that on all levels, all the participants are the authors of there own demise, including the FBI.

As so often the best comedies are, the work is both serious comment and laugh out loud funny. The film toys with you and your sympathies, ultimately spitting you out into the light of the foyer amused and provoked. Well done Mr. Soderbergh.

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