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Analysis Of Wag The Dog

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Our sanity depends on a clear understanding of what is real and isn't real

*The studio audience begins to clap as the show comes back on after an ad break*

Welcome back to "Entertainment Tonight" and tonight we have a special guest, an Academy Award winning film director, actor and producer, Barry Levinson. Levinson has directed movie classics such as "Good Morning, Vietnam" and more recently "Wag the Dog" which has been a box office hit in recent weeks. Please welcome to the desk Barry Levinson.

Welcome Barry Levinson to the show. Levinson is here to talk to us about his latest box office hit, "Wag the Dog." For those who haven't seen the film yet, the movie is about the President caught up in a scandalous situation just days before the …show more content…

How do we judge what is normal? In saying that, it is clear to the audience that some characters are able to separate what is real and what isn't. Brean, being a spin doctor has had a lot of experience in this type of work. He is able to move on from what they have created. In a polar opposite, Motss begins to behave irrational as the movie moves on to the later stages. Small cracks begin to appear and he is shortly unable to control himself, as it's the "best work I've ever done" and is after the credit for creating the "show." Motss gets caught up in the whirlwind that is the war which has the entire American public as the audience. In the end, Motss not being able to remove himself from what he fabricated leads him to devastating consequences. Winifred is unlike the two main male characters when it comes to whether she has a clear understanding of what is and isn't real. Although she doesn't appear heavily in the last few scenes we know that she is sophisticated enough to separate what is fabricated and what is real. However, due to her uptight and politically correct nature she begins to deteriorate down. Being the only person out of the three characters to be working for the Government gives her added pressure to do everything perfectly. So as a result from the fabricated reality that she was apart of creating, she had changed from the person she once …show more content…

Do you feel like Wag the Dog has some elements of truth that can be related back to the world we live in

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