Does a witty personality justify morally insensitive actions? In Jason Reitman’s Thank You For Smoking, Nick Naylor, played by Aaron Eckhart (A tobacco lobbyist) is challenged when senator Ortolan Finistirre, played by William H. Macy runs an anti-smoking campaign. The film is centrally around political ideology, but spun in a direction that creates satire. Thank You for Smoking exhibits underlying political ideology and challenges the audience to entrust a man who advocates for tobacco.
Thank You for Smoking illustrates a side of government that no one really likes to talk about. According to Gianetti, “Every film has a slant, a given ideological perspective that privileges certain characters, institutions and behaviors as attractive, and
