Wag the Dog

    I have seen this movie several times, but this past weekend I watched it once again, paying closer attention to the actual production.  The dialogue is amazing. It is hard to follow at the beginning but it is because the dialogue is so similar to actual conversations, ideas pop in and out. One story leads to another. Someone starts to say something, another person goes on a tangent and then five minutes later we are back to the first story. It is fun to see how all the parts of a conversation fit so nicely together when at the surface they seem to be all over the place.  The fast paced conversations remind me a bit of Gilmore Girls, but in the movie the lines seem to be more real, with verbal pauses and repeated speech. Hilary Henkin was the writer of the screen play. If only writing how people actually talk was as easy as this movie makes it seem. I suggest that everyone watch it, it is in the library