The Insider.

The movie, The Insider, directed by Michael Mann is a biography, drama and thriller taken from an article The Man Who Knew Too Much, telling the events that took place in the 1990s between the news broadcast “60 Minutes,” its television stations CBS and the exposure of the tobacco industry. This movie is about a true story of a middle-aged Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), an executive for a tobacco company Brown & Williamson Co. fired. Left jobless, he still had to support his family and his house. Hope came when Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino), an assistant of the “60 minutes” producer offers a paycheck that he desperately need in return of Wigand’s willingness to expose the tobacco company’s dirty “secret” about the addition various other chemicals to give cigarettes more of a kick when they knew about cigarettes being abdicative. In the beginning, Wigand is not willing to cooperate with Bergman and is determine not to say anything that might put his former company in trouble but he later changes his mind. At the beginning, I was a bit puzzled when I saw Bergman “captured” and blindfolded in a car and was brought to the streets of Tehran but later only did I realize that he was not actually captured but was going for an arranged interview for Mike Wallace. The whole “insider” thing is portrait by not only Wigand but by Bergman too.
The director did a good job at portraying the characters. His chronological way of introducing the two main characters were effective too. The viewer gets to see their style of working; how they approach problems and they way they handle situations even in the beginning of the movie. The positioning of the camera, the close ups that were shot up to the cinematography that was done in the movie was well done as it makes the viewer feel what was going on in the particular moment rather than juts watching it. The scenes where Bergman and Wigand exchange faxes was taken were good shots. There were also a part where I find it funny, which is when Ron Motley (Bruce McGill) was talking to the tobacco lawyer about having the rights not to talk about the exposure of Brown and Williamson Co. Motley’s reply to him was “Boy, you got rights... and lefts. Ups and downs and middles. So what?...” that part really made me laugh and that particular scene was actually stuck to my head even after the movie.
In conclusion about the movie, it is just about two men driven to tell the truth... whatever the cost is.