The whistler blower and his accomplice

Prelude

I have always despised myself for being 'vocabularily' handicapped, many times, job interviews, writing essays to forward your Masters applications, wanting to impress a good looking and english speaking girl, many times. I hated that part of me, so much so that now, even if there was a pill to correct this and make you 'shakespearingly verbose' I wouldn't probably take it because that would mean i am not bad it anymore and i don't know how not to be bad at it anymore and live. But in most of the above situations i was alright( not so good with girls yet though :) ) ,and by that i mean i got used to it, every new interview, essay , seemed like just another misfiring needed from my riffle, and i started getting good at misfiring,but it is when i watch a really good movie, i feel like writing down what i loved about the movie, there is this supreme urge to record what all i observed in it, about the characters in the movie, how i might have understood the underlying meaning of a scene , a dialogue, a character, a caricature,in fact i want to do all these only to document the rush of blood for myself , i don't know why but this excites me, and it feels really bad whenever you feel handicapped in doing what excites you , its like loving football on a wheelchair. Fear of failure, as it so often does, has dared me of even thinking about it .

Well, here goes another failure-

Movie : The Insider

I am a big fan of character based movies, i can watch a movie with only two characters in it as long as these two characters, within the boundaries of human psychological,physical,emotional capabilities, have done something extraordinary or as long as the director helps me believe that these two characters can exist, as long as at some level i feel that with whatever information he gave me , if it was ever possible, i could recreate these two people.For me the best directors are those who make the audience watch the movie more in their heads than on the screen. Frost and Nixon is one such movie, Schindler's list, 12 Angry men, pursuit of happiness,catch me if you can,aviator,forrest gump, a beautiful life . Its not a simple thing to do, to create a human character all on your own- as you can see most of the above movies are based on real life characters. Michael Mann has done this to perfection in this 1999 release-'The Insider'. It is inspired by the real life ordeal of two men Jeffrey Wigand and Lowell Bergmen in bringing to forth a truth.
With Wigand(played as if he always was Wigand by Russel Crowe) and Bergmen( Al Pachino-does his usual ) Mann gives us enough flesh and blood to create these two people in our head in their entirety. The premise of the movie is no brainer, and also a topic of contemporary interest, but these two masters take the drama to the basic of roots of human emotion with such perfection that you tend to forget all the strings attached, they make you believe that this story could have happened to any one fighting a system, some one in India fighting the local bureaucracy , a communist fighting the capitalist system or vice versa. This is the kind of movie that will make you google about the characters in it, see if they are real, watch their youtube videos, try and see who makes a better wigand-Crowe or Wigand himself.

I am only so much knowledged to understand what goes on behind the camera, but for me if i do not think of the director even once while i am watching the movie( and not because i don't know his name :)) and want to know what all other movies did he direct after watching the movie-means he just made a splendid movie. The music is amazingly complimentary to the visuals- as it is supposed to be.

The story is in the movie, the synopsis on imdb among others.

I enjoyed it.

PS: A review is just another opinion-you cant be wrong,you cant be right, you only have an opinion.