No, Thank YOU

The movie, “Thank You for Smoking,” is dark humored satire at its best. Nick Naylor is the chief spokesman and lobbyist for the big tobacco industry who `spins' the industry’s appalling image into something almost viable to condone. The movie was not much to do with actual smoking but the more with “spin doctoring”. I have to say this is one of the most poignant movies I have seen this year, aside from, “The Fast and the Furious-Tokyo Drift.” Sarcasm should be noted when speaking about, “The Fast and the Furious”.





If you want to see how spin can sucker a nation into believing big tobacco companies aren’t the enemies, the organizations rallying to fight against it are because they’re really the ones hoping to dine on you misery, look no more because “Thank You for Smoking” has it all. This was shown through the scene where Naylor goes on a talk show and says something along the lines that the tobacco industries doesn’t want Cancer Boy (not very politically correct, I know) next to him to die because the companies want what’s his name to live and smoke for the rest of his life so they continue to make money off that kid. But in the case of organization groups against the tobacco companies, they are wishing more like Cancer Boy to turn up, otherwise they couldn’t get money to fund their organizations.

Almost every scene in the movie makes me think that public relations people are gods because the way the contrive stories and manipulate it so the good guys (politicians and organizations against “big tobacco”) are bad and the bad guys (conglomerate tobacco industries) are semi-okay. I especially enjoyed the scene where he and his friends who call themselves ‘The Merchant of Death” gather for dinner and discuss their company’s death toll. This movie is ruthless in its realism making it falter away from politically correctness, and I only wished there were more movies like this out there. I thought this movie was “awesome”.