Thank You For Smoking Analysis

Thank you for smoking
The film “Thank you for smoking” comes around many themes. The most important theme, in the film, is probably smoking, but also family, friends, power of speech, and business plays a big role. In the film, we have Nick Naylor, the main character. Naylor is a lobbyist, and his job is to convince the press and the people who smoke, that it is not bad. Throughout the film, we here both pro and cons of smoking, but the film itself does not come with a message, either you should smoke or not. Everyone knows the dangers of smoking and then it is up to every individual to decide whether they want to smoke or not.
Nick Naylor is divorced and has a son. At first, his son, Joey, does not show any interest in Naylor, he is in the other way embarrassed by him. His ex-wife does not want their son to learn more about Naylor
Naylor lives by his mantra, ”If you argue correctly you are never wrong”. Well, arguing correctly does not necessarily mean that you are never wrong. You can argue correctly, come with good arguments, use pathos, ethos, logos etc. but that does not mean you are right in your case. What Naylor does, and as he explains in the film, he just need to make the audience think that the person he is arguing with is wrong and that makes him right and. He does this by changing the topic that they were talking about, to something similar. This way he does not need to prove that, he’s right. Therefore, you can say that Nick Naylor mantra is true, by arguing correctly, he made it look like he was right and in that way he was newer wrong. To pick this up, if you argue correctly, by using methods, to make it seem like you are right in front of the audience, then you will never be wrong. You would not probably have convinced the person you argued with, but as Naylor mentioned in the film, he or she is not as important as the audience is, if you first get them on you site, you have won the