Lets not forget who is behind the production of the film: The US Dept. of State. (See footnote below.) If this film was aimed at promoting the N. Koreans to kill their leader, it is badly mistaken. It will back fire and will increase scorn against America, adding fuel to N. Koreans already extreme, radical, and stupid rhetoric against the US imperialism. The film is anti-N. Korean, anti-women, and anti-Jewish. A stupid movie. I regret having to spend my 2 hours watching it. How is the film supposed to help the N. Koreans to rise up against their Dear Leader? The Kim speaks English most of time. When he speaks Korean, he speaks awkwardly, inauthentically. A poorly written Korean script that does not sound like how Koreans would speak, north or south. (They have different dialects, though we both understand each other.) Other Koreans in the movies too speak bad Korean. Again, poorly written script spoken without authentic accents or intonation. The film reminds me of the Korean scripts poorly written for and badly executed in the popular TV series MASH. I am not offended by the production of a film with badly spoken Korean lines. (After all, it is a bad American movie--too American, too crass, too cheaply made.) My point is: it is not an effective tool to incite the N. Koreans to take up arms against the Dear Leader. The film appears to have been produced by a wishful thinking on the part of the State Department--the same wishful thinking that motivated the Bush-Cheney invasion of Iraq which was and is shared by too many Americans unfortunately and naively. Recall that Cheney and Rumsfeld believed that if US invaded Iraq, the people would rise up against Saddam Hussein. Im sure Bruce W. Bennett, the consultant to the film, shared the same naive American view. The US Military Industrial Complex should stay out of movie business, as they should stay out of US foreign policy making. The film operates at the same low level as the N. Korean propaganda films. It reveals the ugliest side of America--to the laughters and scorns of the people in the North Korea, whoever manages to smuggle the bootlegged DVD of the film and watch it. *Footnote: Here is Tim Shorrock on Democracy Now that aired on December 22: Well, first of all, the person she [the previous guest] just mentioned, Bruce Bennett, who was a consultant on this film, works for the RAND Corporation, which is a think tank for the U.S. military and has been for decades. And it so happens that the Sony CEO happens to sit on the board of directors of the RAND Corporation. It has—Sony has extensive ties with the U.S. national security system. Its CIO used to work for the Secretary of Defense, in terms of their—guarding their internal security. That’s one point.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 15:07:12 +0000
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