{"id":1445,"date":"2009-09-24T17:33:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T21:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2015-03-12T14:43:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T18:43:33","slug":"movie-the-informant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/movie-the-informant\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie: The Informant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I saw <em>The Informant<\/em> starring a chubby Matt Damon. It was good, but nothing like what I expected. When I bought my ticket, I was expecting to see a movie along the lines of one of the &#8220;Bourne&#8221; films. <em>The Informant<\/em> is about price fixing and corn, not international spies.(<a href=\"http:\/\/theinformantmovie.warnerbros.com\/\">Link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This confusion in expectations threw me. When I left the movie, I was underwhelmed. I said that the movie was good, but not what I expected. I was tempering my reaction, because I felt taken. If I had watched a preview, I would have known that the movie is based on a true story and tells the tale of Mark Whitacre (Damon), a bipolar executive at Archer Daniels Midland, who is forced into becoming a whistle blower on price fixing schemes performed by ADM and its competitors. The movie goes from there.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the movie, I liked it very much. The story is interesting and the dialogue is compelling. The audience is constantly hearing Whitacre&#8217;s grandiose, absurd, creative, self-indulgent thoughts, which provide most of the laughs during the couple hours of run time.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend the movie to those who appreciate a creative adaptation of a real-life story. I liken the feel of this movie to <em>Thank You For Smoking<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I saw The Informant starring a chubby Matt Damon. It was good, but nothing like what I expected. When I bought my ticket, I was expecting to see a movie along the lines of one of the &#8220;Bourne&#8221; films. The Informant is about price fixing and corn, not international spies.(Link) This confusion in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}