Prejudice can only be prejudice under the lens of prejudice

Kimberly 2022-03-08 08:01:53

The music, tone and camera angles of this film are just too malicious. I know the ideology of North Korea is very different from ours at present, but if it is exposed for the so-called political exposure, and it is naturally edited with the idea of ​​a political attack, then what it depicts is really Is it objective? I just read the "Fang Fang Diary" published abroad a while ago. Later, I saw this documentary by accident. After reading the film reviews of this documentary, I felt a sense of absurdity. I'm from Liaoning. Some of my friends in Dandong (across the Yalu River from Sinuiju, North Korea) have traveled to North Korea. The tour guide is friendly, fluent in Chinese, and the itinerary is very good... Everything seems to be arranged, North Korea The city is so bright and clean. I recalled the first time I heard about the country of North Korea, it was my grandfather who used to be the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army said: the ruined country, the ragged North Korean guerrillas, the bombing of the United Nations army, the crying of children.

Speaking of the rescue of a North Korean fellow who was injured and passed by, it took a few days to contact the troops to return to the team. Before leaving, the man patted him on the shoulder and said a word repeatedly. My grandfather could only speak three and a half Korean dialects, and when he returned to the army and asked to understand it, he knew that it meant "the war will pass". In the documentary, the mechanically repeated words, the required smiles, and the repeated output of leadership ideas seem to be so unsightly, so leftward with "civilization" and "democracy". So many people started attacking as if that government had committed a heinous crime. And those countries that export drugs and pornography to other countries, wantonly air raids on others, kick open the doors of other countries to loot, rape, garrison troops, and create terrorists are in the eyes of some people "free". "Civilized" and "Democratic". We deliberately even exaggerate our good side because other people abuse us too much. I believe many Chinese feel this way. I can also see this deliberate display of happiness in the video photos of my trip to North Korea that my buddy shared with me. Deliberate and realistic, everyone can see through it, just like the United States is preparing to invade Iraq at the United Nations with a tube of "washing powder". The cry of the child was still there. In a short video, a friend was surprised when he heard the propaganda broadcast on the streets of North Korea, and secretly pointed to the speaker. There was a little North Korean girl with a red scarf on the road behind her, walking normally with a windmill. She held her mother's hand, she blew the windmill and smiled.

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  • Bradford 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    Occasionally bright clothes will appear. On the children and some adults, the streets are covered in gray and black, and they look rather dull. The arranged script makes the meaning of the documentary itself magical. There are also ubiquitous murals, statues, poems, essays, all extolling the leader. Elementary school students are like brainwashing pyramid schemes. Clean ground, silent crowd. I'm glad we finally got away from this life.

  • Chanelle 2022-04-23 07:05:10

    Although there is a subjective element of the director, it cannot hide the ugly system of North Korea.