np North-Korean anti-US propaganda

[Emma Wrigley]

I saw that and enjoyed it very much. Food for thought. It was titled
here, Kim Jong-Il's COmedy Club

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qpk0g

Well worth a download. What I found most disturbing is the ignorance of
the female 'guide' to the reality of a disabled person's life in North
Korea (or lack thereof) and the thought of all those hands clapping
because they're too scared to stop. Like a Stalinist rally, or like that
scene from The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller.
<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: John Bailey [sundayjb at gmail.com]
>Sent: 29/6/2010 1:37:17 PM
>To: ottosell at googlemail.com
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: np North-Korean anti-US propaganda
>
>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 wrote:
>> http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/28/paintings-of-us-war.html
>>
>> http://www.korea-dpr.com/users/thai/Us.htm
>>
>.
> 
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