Short Film Analysis: Wag The Dog

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Wag the dog

This movie was directed by Barry Levinson which show us the relationship between the media and public. The movie is from 1997 and it is one hour and 37 minutes. The title of the movie is asking America why dog wag its tail? Dog wag its tail when they are happy.
If the tail controlling dog, the dog will be stupid. if the tail wagging a dog mean that something big such a war happened by something small such as sex scandal. in this movie, The title describes that how media manipulate public opinion.

Two weeks before the presidential election, the president of USA caught having sex with a young teenage girl how was related to the girl scouts in the white house. The media fixed the problem by making fake news, they created fake war with Albania to drive people attention away from a problem. The media expert Stanley Motts was able to draw the whole sex scandal through this movie. In this movie, we can tell that the media making fake images, video, and signs to draw the public’s attention away from problems. People brains soak such sing, images, and symbols, this method called
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The cat edited by Photoshop, this tells us how easy media can change photos and change the meaning of the photo, every thinks that we hear or see can’t be true. The purpose of the cat is so that people be interested in the young girl and forget about a president and sex scandal. With the sound effect, guns, sirens and screaming, it touched too many American hearts. They believed and trusted the news

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