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The Insider

Late in "The Insider" the tobacco industry whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand sits despondently in a hotel room and contemplates the steep price of what he has done. The setting is somber except for the bright pastoral mural on the wall behind him, looking like a window onto an unsullied, unattainable world. Then the image begins to roil and morph, and it turns into a vision of the home and family that Mr. Wigand has lost. This is a flashy visual effect, but it's also one that piercingly captures the man's state of mind. And although Michael Mann is a filmmaker whose stylistic brio has a way of overpowering his subject matter, this time he strikes a balance, and he gets it right.

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Almost every character in the story is compromised by business considerations. And in the film's vision of television news reporting, moral relativism is a big part of playing the game.

The film centers on CBS's "60 Minutes" and does the kind of muckraking that would ordinarily be that program's own province. The connection between CBS and Mr. Wigand's revelations -- that the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company knew that cigarette smoking was addictive even as it sought new ways to make nicotine deliver more of a kick -- is a producer named Lowell Bergman.

In the film Mr. Bergman keeps a portrait of Cesar Chavez on display, mentions that Herbert Marcuse was his mentor ("major influence on the New Left in the 1960's") and otherwise calls attention to his political credentials. "How did a radical journalist from Ramparts magazine wind up at CBS?" he is asked. He replies modestly: "I still do the tough stories. '60 Minutes' reaches a lot of people."

The film's casting stacks ...

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Added: 5/4/2011 09:59:33 AM
Submitted By: Shoguns
Category: Film & Theater
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1025
Pages: 4

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