np North-Korean anti-US propaganda

[John Bailey]

If anyone gets the chance to see the Danish documentary The Red Chapel
they won't regret it.

A filmmaker organises (incredibly) to tour a pair of Danish-Korean
comedians to Pyongyang to perform. The doco consists of the footage he
shot there, but since the NK censors were reviewing his footage
nightly he has to make a subversive film right under the eye of Kim
Jong-Il's regime.

His secret weapon is one of the comedians, a disabled performer whom
the filmmaker can understand but the NK minders can't, so he's saying
things on camera that would get him in serious trouble if discovered
by his minders.

Things get really messed up: the reality of what happens to disabled
people in North Korea begins to make itself known; the director
realises that he's utilising his performers for propagandistic
purposes not much better than the people he's attempting to criticise;
the crew gets caught up in an anti-US rally tens of thousands strong
and find themselves being ordered to support the cause.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll get to see some startling things that
make a lot of sense of those images Otto posted below.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/28/paintings-of-us-war.html
>
> http://www.korea-dpr.com/users/thai/Us.htm
>