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BrentonThank You For Smoking
August 19th 2008 07:54
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What’s more, is it made my friend, an unusually passionate smoker chuckle. The film was quite happy to beat both the pro and anti smoking groups around the head, and whichever side you’re on, you find yourself happy to allow it to do so.
This is probably because the film acts very much the same as it’s protagonist – Nick Naylor, tobacco industry lobbyist. It come over to you, all sweet and charming, and slips it’s message to you so simply and convincingly that you barely have time to react, let alone try to fight it.
This ability to be on both sides of the fence is somewhat of a poisoned chalice. It’s clever, yes, but it doesn’t go in very deep. I like my satire so caustic it burns, so this one was somewhat lacking in that department. Everything’s done right but that’s not enough to make it super-memorable. It does though succeed at being very good.
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