via a friend's Netflix.
Was distressed to note that the redoubtable [link|http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/03/DDG61LF0M11.DTL&hw=Thank+you+for+smoking+review&sn=001&sc=1000| Mick La Salle] -- this time around -- appears to have missed? dismissed the scale of subtlety via which it veritably encapsulates the zeitgeist of an entire class of Biz-felons.. their Pol-cohorts and the legions who, today make a living via blab-words and the routine daily attack upon reason itself.
(All accomplished.. without uttering the word hypocrisy.)
Methinks the lines where he explains to his son ~ "how you can always 'win' an argument" reveals that the target is solidly beyond the mere tobacco send-up.
What I think I like most about the direction, script, is that -- if you have to explain? the magnificence of the metaphor -- as, to someone who asserts that "they don't actually 'take a position' on smoking' and its corrupt marketers :-0" yada: You can't! (explain.) As re. 'recursion'?
Can well imagine, as Rand suggests - that the sourcebook could be so much More..
If this is a 'comedy' - so is Twain's War Prayer.