Wag the Dog

I recently watched Wag the Dog starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro; the plot of this movie follows two men as they stage a war to boost the Presidents rating fourteen days before the election. This movie shows the government is capable of covering up scandals and problems in the world by simply creating false news to feed to the general public. While this movie is a comedy there is a certain level of fear that consumes some audience members because this movie makes it seem incredibly easy to misguide the American people. Imagery is a central issue in this movie because people are coming up with ways to tap into the human psyche in order to fool them into endorsing a fake war. The use of Kristen Dunst as the poor Albanian child with a cat showed the sensitive side of Americans and the amount of effort Dustin Hoffman and his team went through to create Dunst’s image illustrates how a much impact a single can have on regular people as well as how each distinct aspect of her appearance can create a large range of emotional responses.