This evening re-watched the film Wag the Dog. If others have not seen it you need to see it. If you have seen it, maybe time to watch it again. Brilliant and probably very relevant.
It's a comedy but listen very carefully to the script as there is so much more than the surface story. Brilliant casting, many very renowned actors in roles completely suited.
The entire film stuffed with significant moments (often linking to other parts) but one very "accessible" scene is the "song", the theme to progress the agenda (3 mins and listen to the lyrics - spirit of the film but a the rest is much more subtle).
And so much to overlook eg soundtrack (theme song by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straights).
One review that to me sums the film up well "The movie is a satire that contains just enough realistic ballast to be teasingly plausible; like Dr. Strangelove, it makes you laugh, and then it makes you wonder" (Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times) - even more so these days.
Very few people I mention it to have ever heard of it, not a "block buster" but directed by Barry Levinson, staring Robert de Niro, dustin Hoffman, Anne Heche, Willie Nelson, Woody Harrelson, Kirsten Dunst, Denis Leary, etc. even James Belushi (as himself).
From 1997 so not written or made with Trump in mind and never really mentions Republican nor Democrat - neutral in that regard. And brilliantly filmed "old school" ie no CGI etc. just camera moving and panning etc.
