Wag The Dog Film Analysis

Politics is a controversial phenomenon, particularly in the way it has harnessed the media to influence public opinion. Representations of politics now cannot avoid inclusion of media which predominately conveys the inescapable message of politics Representations give the perceiver a clear view on whether the shadowed meaning brings out the best or worst of human nature. In any society media should use its capacity for representation to inform the people, but in the contemporary society, politics seem to have woven its way into the field. This illustrates that media is not a true representation of society, following as it does, the road that politics paves for them. The widely used service which is known to both reach and influence is created using a process: which include the use of censorship and manufacturing consent. The film …show more content…
It demonstrates how politics influences the media and how media influences the people. The presidential fixer ‘Conrad Brean’ employs a Hollywood producer ‘Stanley Motss’ to construct a war, to dissipate the stigma engulfing the president and firefly girl situation. The title “Wag the Dog” is a well-constructed metaphor, designed to tell the audience that a dog is being controlled by its tail, thus contradicting the importance of the body as it should be in control, resulting in the viewer’s perception being focused on this reversal. The dog in this situation is a representation of society and the people within it, whilst the tail/wag component is the media, which includes government and its excessive power. In an ideal setting people of society would control the media but referring to the film, media controls society; this is a direct representation of the real world and it happens without the masses knowing it. In the end the metaphor states out the naïve nature of people and the outstanding power of