Today I would like to introduce you to a satirical comedy "Thank You for Smoking", directed by Jason Reitman, starring Alan Eckhart, Maria Bellow, David Cohenchane, and Katie Holmes, which was released in the United States on March 17, 2006.
Film introduction
Nick (Alan Eckhart Aaron Eckhart) is the face of tobacco, the world's most profitable and controversial industry. Not only does he have to persuade people to smoke like a salesman every day with three inches of uncorrupted tongue, but he also has to change his hair to deal with the protests of anti-smoking groups, environmental groups and scientific groups, and try his best to maximize the interests of the tobacco industry in the government and senators. Nick also has two close friends, Polly (Maria Koechner), who speaks for the liquor industry. The same nature of the industry makes the three close friends, often played by Maria Bello, and Bobby (David Cohenchane), who speaks for the arms industry, exchange tips on how to deal with protests from various groups such as environmental groups, and how to maneuver between the government and senators. On a stage where politics and business intersect, they staged one good play after another.
This is a successful villain as the protagonist, the ending and a successful transformation into a decent character, the role has not changed, what has changed is the mentality of the audience. In the movie, there is a mod squad, which means death sellers, representing guns, spirits, and cigarettes. Each of them was so eloquent that together they discussed which industry killed the most people.
It is a film with a critical realistic theme. There is a bit of a documentary, telling a passage in the history of cigarettes in the development of the United States, incidentally criticizing capitalists, politicians and media people, starring Alan Eckhart, the "two-faced man" who is very familiar to friends. The whole film mainly looks at his sophistry, the wonderful sophistry in the film: smoking is harmful to health, but there is no need to label cigarette boxes, if it is to remind people of the existence of danger, why not put a death skeleton on a Boeing plane? Let people know that the danger depends on education, and education does not come from cigarette packs! Perhaps the protagonist is not a good businessman, not a good husband, but his sense of responsibility for the education of his children and himself shows that he is a good father.
It is also one of the must-see films known as marketing, a tobacco spokesperson who stands on the opposite side of public morality, through his own sophistry, tells the audience how important the logic of speaking is, and the main theme of the movie: morality should not be kidnapped, morality is the choice of self-discipline, and people should choose to develop in the good through their subjective consciousness.
There is also a very interesting phenomenon, the film revolves around cigarettes, and the protagonist also smokes, but the whole film does not have a smoking shot, the only one with a cigarette shot is that the protagonist looks at the movie again, the movie picture is a war movie, a soldier just took out a cigarette to calm the mood, before smoking was shot by the enemy headshot. This expression is too humorous and too ironic.