Wag the Dog Comments

  • Carolyne 2022-03-25 09:01:09

    Oh my gosh, this script is amazing. The darkness of the "Produce a War" media, the hypocrisy of politicians, the blind obedience of the public, and the helplessness of art workers are all covered. The whole film does not give the president a frontal shot, because the president is just an over-packed puppet of the team. "Why does the dog wag its tail? Because the dog is smarter than the tail. If the tail is smarter than the dog, the tail is wagging the dog."...

  • Amparo 2022-03-25 09:01:09

    Super screenwriter, super producer, turning the president into a commercial marketing product: one of the reasons for living is for such excellent movies, the 1980s and 1990s were really the most brilliant eras in Hollywood - produce a war, make a hero, invent a...

  • Moises 2022-03-25 09:01:09

    Like a video application of "Scenic Society", the director shows how to control people's hearts through the medium of "landscape", using advertisements, symbols, theme music, moving stories, stars, packaging... "The president is an entertainment star and a commercial propaganda. product.” And we are prisoners living under the television screen and the information on the Internet. Looking at this game carefully, it turns out that the absurd is the unit of measuring reality. Exaggerate,...

  • Domenick 2022-03-25 09:01:09

    The tail wags the dog. Hong Kong translation: As a big hero, Hoffman and De Niro's performances continue their habitual roles, one is ramble and the other is cunning, the picture is calm, and the lines are superb. There are no exciting ups and downs, but there is a powerful ideological irony in the flat...

  • Eryn 2022-03-25 09:01:09

    The tail wags the dog. Hong Kong translation: As a big hero, Hoffman and De Niro's performances continue their habitual roles, one is ramble and the other is cunning, the picture is calm, and the lines are superb. There are no exciting ups and downs, but there is a powerful ideological irony in the flat...

  • Lottie 2022-03-23 09:01:56

    A chilling political comedy. A small group of people controls the world's audio-visual, emotional and even actions. There is no truth, the truth is constantly deconstructed and reconstructed. We think we are free when we are actually marionettes. Try to keep an estranged attitude towards everything you see and hear, because I really don't know if the scene that happened in the media is also a "Wagtail...

  • Kayden 2022-03-23 09:01:56

    When looking back on history, unless you experience it yourself, audiovisual images have replaced historical memory. Personal memories wear off and last forever if the tail was filmed If the tail were smarter, it would wag the...

  • Lee 2022-03-23 09:01:56

    10 - 8.5 points. These two great-grandpa Bei'er also have to give these...

  • Austin 2022-03-22 09:01:50

    Black political films, maybe PB was also inspired by...

  • Brandon 2022-03-21 09:01:57

    This reminds me of the anti-pornography action that broke out in the Poly Club, the Landai Club and the Lihai Ladies Club on the night after the results of the Lei Yang case were...

Extended Reading
  • Archibald 2022-03-24 09:01:54

    Don't be a dog's tail

    Why does a dog waps its tail?
    Because a dog is smarter than its tail.
    If the tail were smarter, the tail would wag the dog.
    The person is the dog's tail. There are two smart people in the film, one is Connie and the other is Stanley, but one is a dog and the other is a dog's tail.
    The...

  • Elbert 2021-12-09 08:01:31

    It’s not the age of media campaigns anymore

    The 1997 film was originally intended to satirize Clinton, but if you don’t tell you the background of the times, I think you might think it is satirizing Bush’s reelection campaign, because at that time Bush was fighting the Iraq war and the war on terrorism helped him win The end of the campaign...

Wag the Dog quotes

  • Conrad 'Connie' Brean: Stanley, don't do this. You're playing with your life here.

    Stanley Motss: Fuck my life! I want the credit.

  • CIA Agent Mr. Young: When the fit hits the shan somebody's going to have to stay behind after school.