Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Genre : drama
Rating : 4/5
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Walau judulnya Thank You For Smoking, tapi film ini engga mengajarkan untuk merokok (Tidak ada yang merokok di film ini). Malahan memberi contoh kalau merokok bisa menyebabkan sakit kanker.
Joan Lunden: Robin Williger. He is a 15 year old freshman from Racine, Wisconsin. He enjoys studying history; he’s on the debate team. Robin’s future looked very, very bright. But recently he was diagnosed with cancer, a very tough kind of cancer. Robin tells me he has quit smoking, though, and he no longer thinks that cigarettes are cool.
Tetapi mengenai Nick Naylor, seorang chief lobbyist untuk Big Tobacco Industry. Dia tahu kalau merokok itu membunuh 1200 orang setiap hari tetapi dia melakukan ini karena ini adalah keahlian dia (melobby) dan to pay his mortgage.
Nick Naylor: Few people on this planet knows what it is to be truly despised. Can you blame them? I earn a living fronting an organization that kills 1200 people a day. Twelve hundred people. We’re talking two jumbo jet plane loads of men, women and children. I mean, there’s Attila, Genghis… and me, Nick Naylor. The face of cigarettes, the Colonel Sanders of nicotine.
Nick Naylor: My job requires a certain… moral flexibility.
Nick Naylor: Michael Jordan plays ball. Charles Manson kills people. I talk. Everyone has a talent.
Dan pekerjaan sebagai chief lobbyist untuk Big Tobacco Industry, dimana semua orang mencerca rokok sementara dia harus berkata sebaliknya, tidak mudah.
Joey Naylor: Why are you hiding from everyone?
Nick Naylor: It has something to do with being generally hated right now.
Joey Naylor: But it’s your job to be generally hated.
Nick Naylor: It’s more complicated then that, Joey.
Joey Naylor: You’re just making it more complicated so that you can feel sorry for yourself. Like you always said, “If you want an easy job, go work for the Red Cross.”
Film ini mengajarkan kita mengenai marketing & lobbying. Engga ada yang benar dan engga ada yang salah, tetapi yang penting adalah argument yang baik (spin an argument) dan untuk itu perlu talenta. Nick tidak membuktikan dia benar, but to prove that you are wrong and therefore he is right.
Nick Naylor: That’s the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you’re never wrong.
Joey Naylor: But you didn’t prove that Vanilla is the best.
Nick Naylor: No, but I proved that you were wrong, and if you’re wrong, then I’m right.
Nick Naylor: My point is that you have to think for yourself. If your parents told you that chocolate was dangerous would you take their word for it?
[Children say no]
Nick Naylor: Exactly! So perhaps instead of acting like sheep when it comes to cigarettes you should find out for yourself.
Kid #3: My Mommy says smoking kills.
Nick Naylor: Oh, is your Mommy a doctor?
Kid #3: No.
Nick Naylor: A scientific researcher of some kind?
Kid #3: No.
Nick Naylor: Well then she’s hardly a credible expert, is she?
The story itself is quite brilliant. Highly recommend it terutama buat yang mau belajar nge-‘les’.
| Love this quote: “I don’t have to be right. It’s not about the issue. I just have to prove that you are wrong. And, if you are wrong, then I must be right.”|