Todd Haynes my life in picture
Dark Waters 2020
A crusading lawyer (Mark Ruffalo) takes on chemical giant DuPont in a shocking true story.
“We’ve loosely called it the ‘whistleblower’ genre, as opposed to a sort of eco-thriller, because of the kinds of films that I was thinking about when I made it. Some aren’t necessarily based on real life, but it’s the paranoia movies of the 1970s, particularly the three classics by [Alan J.] Pakula: Klute, The Parallax View and All The President’s Men, which set a tone that others followed.
“These films cast this existential anxiety in a way that makes you see the world differently. And of course, that is very much to do with the way we were looking at things in the 1970s, with a kind of new cynicism – a post-1960s, post-Watergate suspicion about systems of power and dominance.
“The interesting thing about those films is that we don’t go to see them to really learn what the corruption is that’s uncovered by Woodard and Bernstein, for instance, in . It’s more about what it takes for an individual to stumble on
