Meanwhile, north Korean filmmakers dropping a banger ever single year.
Do you have examples? I’m genuinely curious, never heard about DPRK’s film industry
A couple (I’ve watched way more of these than I care to admit):
The Country I Saw (1987) About a cynical Japanese journalist, suffering from PTSD because of his experiences as an attaché during World War II. He visits to the DPRK and meets some of the people he saved from Japanese troops during the war.
Myself in the Distant Future (1997) Kind of a socialist rom-com? But better than it sounds. About a spoiled, directionless young man from Pyongyang who falls in love with a girl from a construction shock brigade.
Story of Our Home (2016) Coming-of-age story, but different from western ones: growing up means you learn to accept help from the community.
Traffic Controller at Crossroads (1987) Female traffic cop in Pyongyang, and her interactions with various people on her street. Quite cool to see a film portraying close friendships between men and women that aren’t necessarily sexual or romantic.
Bear in mind, all these are filmed very much like Soviet movies during the 1970s. So the style takes a little bit of getting used to. I hated it at first; now I prefer it to western styles.
Bear in mind, all these are filmed very much like Soviet movies during the 1970s. So the style takes a little bit of getting used to.
Having grown up on said Soviet movies, it should be no problem. Thank you for the list!
Holy shit thank you for these.
The only one I’ve seen is comrade kim goes flying, and it was the most wholesome thing ever.
you can’t just say that and not elaborate. why is comrade kim flying
Its an adorable DPRK romantic comedy.
You can find it on torrents.
Although the film had a lot of influence from Koryo Tours watching it is a really good insight into DPRK’s socialist culture. Despite it being a romance movie it’s super duper conservative compared to Western romance movies, which I found pretty nice.
“But that’s whataboutism!”
Capitalistic hellhole democracy be like
Well if
communismcaptalism is so good, why do you need to censor it?Ah Capitalist South Korea bringing you Squid Game and Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer and Parasite.
Snowpiercer is one of my favourites. Its amazing how you can take a seemingly silly idea about an apocalypse where the sole remaining human survivors are stuck on a train powered by a perpetual motion engine, and make it that good.
Also Snowpiercer is a sequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Titanic is a prequel to the terminator films
Lore is getting complicated
The Martian is canonically a prequel to The Expanse
Where does Jurassic Park fit?
IN YOUR
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Is squid game worth watching? I’ve seen MLs either really hate it or really like it.
I’m not familiar with any theories, but after watching only season 1, I liked it a lot. The metaphors for police/democracy/everything else and the parallels between The Game and The Real World are really obvious to a Marxist, but its got a lot of twists and turns and is fun in the moment even if what it has to say has been done to death.
I’ll also say that Season 1 explicitly states that The Game was made up by American businessmen, who are portrayed pretty over-the-top and basically treat the Korean characters as cattle, so if they decide to go North Korea Bad in Season 2 that will be a big retcon.
It’s fine. For me it it peaked around episode 7. The ending was meh. Worth watching once i’d say.
It’s a decent show that mocks the modern capitalist society as money being valued more than life.
There’s a theory that season 2 is about to reveal that it’s set in the DPRK and is meant to showcase that North Korea is the worst: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=gmEVUxVwUWk (warning, lib video)
Which, if true, makes it libtrash. It’s just a theory though and we’ll have to wait and see.
In general, it’s a pretty good commentary on capitalism and what it forces people to do, but certainly not the best in that category.
That’s sad… going the stranger things route :(
That’s one thing about movies made in capitalist countries with anti-capitalist themes… since they can’t show a successful revolution, they by consequence can’t have happy endings, or protagonists who win, and so are almost always incredibly depressing. I wanna see a goddamn successful revolution and a happy ending, we have so few of those, but they moved mountains.
Yeah, Western media can be really good at showing the horrors of capitalism, but they almost always just go “well it’s what it is” instead of solving it. Not even fantasy pretend solving it.
