YOU ARE WATCHING A MOVIE
Good evening Anons. I want to recommend a good movie for your viewing pleasure: WAG THE DOG
This movie involves getting a hollywood producer to form a narrative to dupe the news media and population into believing there is a war going on in a made-up country. The purpose is to distract the public from bad news and give the President a boost heading into the election. The opposition catches wind of it, and attempts several times to undo the narrative, prompting the president's narrative manager to continue upping the game.
At one point they use Willie Nelson to help them invent a song, sung in an old roots-blues style, and have it inserted into the library of congress archives. The song is then 'discovered' by a reporter and used to bolster the narrative.
In the end, the president gets re-elected, but the hollywood producer wants to break his vow of silence. They kill him, and life goes on as normal, nothing to see.
Even though it was made in the 90s this movie is fascinating because of:
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Hollywood producer, ultimately seems to me to be a reflection of Kubric and the creative involvement he had regarding the moon
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The idea that 'they' can create history by fucking with archives. Reminds me of "Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey", and "The Last President"
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The idea that whatever we are seeing on the news isn't real. It just isn't. But the masses are duped just the same.