North Korean propaganda film backfires.

[Mutant Monster RAEG-HAPYP]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/22/asia/north-korea-propaganda/index.html

 

It's ironic how this pretty much had the opposite effect that North Korea wanted.

[vla1ne]

while brave, this could get a lot of people killed or arrested, from the family to the schoolchildren, to the minders and the people interviewed. the world needed to see it, but i can't help but wonder if they factored in the potential damage.

[Snatch Steal]

Good lord, NK is such a mess. It genuinely surprises me that a country could be run so poorly.

 

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while brave, this could get a lot of people killed or arrested, from the family to the schoolchildren, to the minders and the people interviewed. the world needed to see it, but i can't help but wonder if they factored in the potential damage.

 

 

I'd like to think that the exposure would be nice, but you're right; I doubt it'll be worth the lives of all the people in the movie. I mean, what are we gonna do, tell NK they can't be a country or something?

 

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All in all, tragic.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

With consideration that Kim Jong-un still makes threats against other countries, despite him never going through with attacking, it's probably not surprising that the country looks like that. Well, considering the fact that a good chunk of his people are still starving and his government executes people who disagree; even his own relatives. (That in mind, they don't even bother to obey UN Resolutions and even China's told them to knock it off)

 

But yeah, it's a damning look into the life of North Korea; one that we probably need to see.

 

Still, I'd agree that this video is not worth the lives of the people who were involved in this movie (bar the director), given how NK responds if anyone says bad things about the government; either Kim is going to have those people arrested/thrown into labor camps or just shoot them. 

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But the girl's parents have been quoted denouncing the film, saying it was made under false pretenses and was selectively edited to make an "anti-North Korean movie." According to a story on the North Korean news site Arirang Meari, they call the director a hypocrite, saying it was the director himself who often insisted on staging their daughter's scenes.

 

"Vitaly Mansky directed her, told her, 'Do this, do that,' " her mother is quoted as saying.

 

"We thought he was making the documentary for the purpose of a friendly cultural exchange," she added. "We did not know Mansky was such a black-minded person."

It seems like the 'propaganda film' was actually edited together to depict life in the DPRK as much harsher than the bliss it is in reality. Who knew?

[Mutant Monster RAEG-HAPYP]

It seems like the 'propaganda film' was actually edited together to depict life in the DPRK as much harsher than the bliss it is in reality. Who knew?

I wouldn't call it bliss, especially given how brutal the regime is.

[Pchi]

I wouldn't call it bliss, especially given how brutal the regime is.

 

I think he's being sarcastic, but yeah, the interviewees taking a step back probably has more to do with fear for their lives than being genuinely outraged over having their opinions distorted by the director. Though given a significant portion of them probably don't even know how the world outside is, they might not view their situation under the same negative light as us.

[Susie]

I have nothing against the filmmakers deciding to release the film regardless of what will happen to them. If the artists think the risk is worth it then im not going to question it.

 

I for one would definitely watch it.