Now those are words you won’t hear out of my mouth anytime soon for sure. If anything, I am always telling my friends to stop smoking so close to me or not at all. Being asthmatic and growing up with a mother that smoked, I have had enough exposure to it to not want a part of the addicition. But with that aside, have you seen it? The movie that is. I was flying from LAX to JFK and each seat had their own tv. Now, I am not big on watching tv or movies, but I said might at well check out what they have. I had heard about “Thank you for Smoking” and it had looked interesting when it came out. I never found my way into the theatre to see it so I spent a good chunk of my flight watching the movie. I thought it was great. It did a great job of using humor to explore possible ethical dilemas that we face in life. I love movies that make you think of, “What would I do in this situation?” We often say, “I would never do this or that,” but when tested in life sometimes it does not ring true. I loved the main character, the tobacco lobbyist, who went around and proved he was right just by showing the holes in the arguments of the other side. He had a great nack for reasoning, thinking quick, distorting the truth just enough, and inflicting doubt in his opponents. I liked the movie from a comedic standpoint but also because it does make you think about where you stand with your morals when life experiences make you decide what is right and what is wrong.
August 8, 2008 at 3:31 am |
I know this post is really old but i saw this movie a week or two ago. I love the movie and the way it just ignores all political correctness. they pointed out that the anti smoking lobbyists were just as bad as the smoking companies themselves…’Cancer boy should be hopeless’. It’s a great movie.