RojoThank you for Smoking
Sometimes there are rare gems in film. This is widely known. Then there is those rare gems that come from first time directors, American Beauty type films, Sam Mendes type directors.
‘Thank you for Smoking’ is one of those gems.
No great film can come from a shoddy script. Once you have this great script you need to find the right cast and crew to play it. Thank you for Smoking has a great script. Great lets just define this word - extreme in amount, degree, and effectiveness. This is a pretty apt breakdown of how great the script is. I would venture a little further, I would throw marvelous, outstanding, a marvel, just brilliant, yes it’s just that good.
Aaron Eckhart plays Nick Naylor. Sharp, good looking, articulate Naylor is a lobbyist for big tobacco. His job is not to sell cigarettes to us but rather talk in there defence and on there behalf. Naylor knows that tobacco is no good but he isn’t here to remind us of that fact he's a spin doctor.
Naylor is the guy that can argue that the sky isn’t blue, that wood doesn’t just come from trees, and ultimately that we should be allowed to chose for ourselves whether cigarettes are good or bad for us.
He argues that cigarette packets shouldn’t have warnings on them because everybody already knows they are bad, why be reminded. Why not put warning on cheese as cholesterol is the number one killer in the United States or planes, or cars.
This is but one of his arguments throughout this stellar film the script shines, then beams, then illuminates like a massive sun.
If you have seen this you will agree, if you haven’t then get on it. (This would be in my top ten of last year). It is one of those films that from the get go you knew you were in the treat.
One last thing I find fascinating about Thank you for Smoking is that throughout this film not one, NOT ONE, cigarette is smoked.
8.5/10
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Great film and I really enjoyed with it and agree with your review - however you make no mention of the film's young dynamo director - Jason Reitman or the fact he has gone onto bigger and better things - namely the Oscar winning teen comedy Juno.
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