Whistleblower films like 'Dark Waters' and 'The Report' celebrate the little guy fighting -- usually real -- David versus Goliath battles
‘Two Popes,’ ‘Dark Waters,’ ‘Hidden Life’: a lack of moral leadership, social justice — even silence — have inspired films with religion at their heartThese works involve a single person or small, seemingly powerless groups fighting against great odds to uncover the truth about governmental or corporate malfeasance. Some are classic whistleblowers, who report on wrongdoings within their own organizations; others are just concerned citizens who see wrongdoing and take up the fight against it.
The genre seems to stretch at least as far back as 1939, when Jimmy Stewart played a freshman U.S. senator fighting his home state’s corrupt political machine in director Frank Capra’s classic “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” But most of these films which, unlike “Mr. Smith,” are based on real-life incidents, emerged during and after the Vietnam War/Watergate era, when faith in America’s institutions took a sharp nosedive, from which it arguably has yet to recover.
“What motivated me” to make the film, says Mann, “was Jeffrey Wigand was flawed. He was a difficult person to get along with. I wasn’t interested in a story that resolved in an easy way, I was interested in the fallible humanity. It made you focus on the actions he takes, and that’s the imperative.” David versus Goliath movies also seem to be peculiarly American, a function of a cultural and political system that not only allows the little guy to fight back against corruption, but cheers on his or her efforts, no matter how difficult the struggle. And in some cases this is codified into law, particularly in the 1989 Whistleblower Protection Act, which protects federal employees who report violations of federal directives.
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