film "Thank you for smoking" is the first comedy feature film written and directed by Jason Reitman, director of "Juneo" in 2005, and it shines last year. Similar to "Juneo," "Thank you for smoking" also discussed serious social topics, but it was also presented with humor and wit. Jason, who inherited his father’s business (his father was Ivan Reitman, a famous Hollywood commercial film director, and his representative works "Dragon Brothers and Rat Brothers", "Six Days and Seven Nights", etc., obviously has high-quality cells that surpass his father, and his thinking The versatility and the ability to control humorous language and pictures make his independent films of small cost shine a happy and witty light.
Although the title "Thank you for smoking" may be "literary and artistic", fans of literary and artistic films will think of many related titles, such as Alan Renai's "Smoking, No Smoking", but this one is just about words and demeanor. A comedy that is full of irony and ridicule between laughter and curse, but lacks artistic craftsmanship. It has a fast-paced, simple structure, and a clear narrative (except for the slight off-line in the middle and later sections), but it is created in the usual order Funny, humorous and intelligent debates have achieved hilarious effects with language baggage alone. Although the content of the film involves social morality, it is presented without a sense of heaviness and obscurity. There is also a little bit of sunshine, as if to avoid the importance and lighten the so-called serious topics easily.
The novelty and uniqueness of shooting techniques and post-processing have always been Jason Reitman’s strengths. (Decoration)’s alternative monologue easily grabbed the audience’s attention, and then through Nick’s clever tongue-persuading the public to continue to be keen on cigarette consumption, refuting public welfare organizations or related departments to help manufacturers expand profits, with Reasonable use of the scenes presents a "recognition" of the current American society-people in various industries have their own interests and try to appear on the stage, such as politics, businessmen, Hollywood, the media, etc., these people are in Reitman's lens , The appearance of the incident was ridiculed by ridicule and "sniffed", thus revealing some inside stories and truth.
In response to his son's composition title "Why the US government is the best", Nick gave a realistic answer. It can be bought with money. The government can do anything for money. There is only one reason for the survival of the tobacco industry. ——Large taxpayer. In the film, Senator Ortland (played by William Messi) always shows a clear anti-smoking stance in front of the public. In fact, he opposes smoking and strongly supports the printing of the skull death symbol on the cigarette box, just to establish a good Image and Dora votes. The desk of this person is full of famous wines, and there are large cheese advertisements on the wall. These non-healthy foods can occupy a place here because they are sponsors of Altland's campaign. That's it...
The presentation of the "MOD group" (that is, the murder group) in the film is very interesting. It is composed of Nick and two "smelly similar" friends. The two people are Polly (Maria. Bello) and Bobby who speaks for the gun industry. They have dinners every weekend, exchange experiences, or make suggestions with each other, and sometimes even PK who endorsed the product is the most killer. As a result, the cigarette endorsed by Nick wins by causing 1,200 deaths in the United States every day. Then, he also suffered exaggerated rounds. Life, of course, must end in Happy Ending.
For Americans’ practical values, the film also makes a moderate discussion, and also covers realistic propositions such as "judgment and choice." Nick chose to do this "financing and killing" job, of course because he is good at speaking, but The main reason is that he, like other people imprisoned at work, has "debts" to be repaid. It is not the workers' intention to engage in or assist in trafficking deaths every day.
Since Nick makes a living by speaking, his lines are naturally wonderful: as a villain, when he was invited to a talk show, facing lung cancer patients and the audience who despised him, Nick said: "We don't want lung cancer patients to die because of this. We have lost a consumer. We all want them to live and continue to smoke.” When the son’s school invited parents to talk about choosing a career, Nick said to a little girl who said “Mom says smoking is poisonous”: “If you 'S mother said that chocolate is poisonous, do you believe it..." After getting a negative answer, "So we have to make our own judgment"; when asked why he wants to promote smoking, Nick replied: "In order to control Population"; Nick told his equally eloquent son: "The essence of the debate is to prove that the other party is wrong, not to prove that you are right." This seems to be the secret of Nick's tongue.
In terms of acting, except for the reporter Heather played by Tom’s wife Katie Holmes, everyone else is appropriately and properly qualified for his role, especially Alan Eckhart, who is very good. It reproduces the active thinking, agility and clever tongue of the "talker" Nick. In one of the scenes, when the boss asks his subordinates to brainstorm and break through the pressure brought by the charity organization, Nick speaks skillfully In the old movie, the sexy smoking scenes of the actors in the old film brought the audience's excitement, which triggered the golden period of sales, during which there were not only American humorous lines, but also exaggerated body movement assistance, and a lively super professional man suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.
At the end of the film, Senator Outland still insisted on the "war" on cigarettes, and took on a job similar to that of the film review priest in "Paradise Cinema"-organizing personnel to "cleanse" classic black and white films with a lot of smoking scenes. So, but seeing those handsome men and beautiful women posing cool or romantic POSE in classic shots, they are no longer holding cigarettes, but skittles or coffee, like the sexy smile of Gina Davis holding a lollipop. In the face of this group of nondescript and inconsistent images, people can't help but sigh that "scissors hands" are everywhere.
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