Thank You for Smoking

Cute doesn't mean ambitious, but Thank You for Smoking has all the ins and outs of a snazzy film that it almost makes a tired subject look new again. Thank You for Smoking is yet another comic look at a stooge who represents an ugly corporate business and has to defeat his honesty to save the face of his constituents. This has been done in different ways and about numerous evils. Thank You for Smoking is about the modern cigarette business. It also wraps the story around to point a judgmental finger at the public for being hypocrites. The movie makes many condemnations, but makes them all in a cheeky manner. The filmmaking is overly self referential and the script glides along to compliment itself as much as it does to attack its subject. The film ends on a telling point about society. The fact it's a twisted moral lesson doesn't make it anymore insightful. Greater satires have better dedication to its subject and also have endings that are questions to the rest of the film instead of tidy wrap ups to explain convulated plots. The point of the latter is to present a final thesis. The rationality of that thesis isn't important. The fact the rest of the film is dependent upon an explanation is a tell it's hollow.