Wag the Dog

                                                                    Wag the Dog

The title of the movie was taken from a joke " Why dose a dog wag it's tail? Because a dog is smarter than it's tail, if the tail were smarter the tail would wag the dog". As usual there are various interpretation as to what it means.  So i think the dog symbolize public opinion and the tail represent the media.

After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisers (DeNiro) contacts a top Hollywood producer (Hoffman) in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass media.