It's a Damn Shame...
...that no one liked this movie. And not only did they dislike it, they HATED it. Personally, I don't care if people don't like movies I like, but I actually think it's shocking how badly this film bombed.
To me, The Informers was like Inception. It used typical story-telling devices to put across the meaning of the film. The same way Inception used guns and car-chases and explosions, The Informers used sex, money, and drugs.
In this film, the sex, the money and the drugs were used to the extreme, which created a more dramatic story. True, some people truly do live their lives like the characters in The Informers, but it is my belief that we're all METAPHORICALLY living the same way as depicted in the film. I know thats a lame way to explain it, but I just feel like I need to say more than "why don't people like this movie!?"
I guess it's no big deal. It's still just a huge surprise that everyone hated it so much, when it's a movie that hit me pretty hard -- just like all of Bret's novels. I see the world the same way he does. And in case you haven't noticed, BEE isn't anything like his characters; he just feels the same way they do, and the only way to explain the way he feels are by using symbols like money, sex, drugs -- the things that are most commonly used to numb away the things about life we have to work so hard to understand.
The movie could have better, I know. It's a three-out-of-four stars movie for me. It missed some great opportunities. But I still feel like there's a lot to get out of it.
--Kai Gorbahn--