American Cinema

Why are Americans and North Koreans not getting alone?

This week we have watched the film The Interview. WHAT?? didn´t you watch it yet?? Lucky you! We are going to explain it now without spoilers.

First of all, you can watch the trailer:

Now, I will explain you the plot:

The Interview is a 2014 American comedy film whose directors are Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The film stars with Rogen and James Franco as journalists instructed to kill the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (played by Randall Park) after booking an interview with him.

Dave Skylark is the host of the talk show Skylark Tonight and interviews celebrities about personal topics and gossip. After Dave and his crew celebrate their 1,000th episode, they discovered that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is a fan of the program and he wanted an interview.

A CIA Agent proposed that Dave and Aaron (Dave´s boss) would assassinate Kim using ricin via handshake and they reluctantly agree.

Dave spends the day with Kim, playing basketball and partying and they become friends. While they were driving a tank, Dave discovers that Kim loves the song "Firework" by Katy Perry. They had same hobbies and become good friends…

Do you think that Dave and Aaron could finally kill Kim Jong-un? Well, if you want to know it, you have to watch the film and discover it.

You can see in the film how Americans hate North Koreans. The main reason why they are in North Korean is for killing the president. The film also shows the North Koreans life and how they adore their President. As in the real life, we can see in the film the military situation. There are police officers and soldiers everywhere to protect the president. He is like a god for they.

A curious thing in the film is, at the beginning, there is a little shop with lots of food and moreover there is a little kid who is very fast as sign as he eats a lot but, at the end of the film, it shows that the shop was not real and was all a fake. It is said that in North Korean there are always famines and some people died because they haven´t got nothing to eat and this scene is a critic about this situation in the real life.

CRITICS:

Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times: “The Interview sticks to the anything-for-a-laugh plan for nearly the entire journey, with far too many jokes about things going in and coming out of rear ends.”

A.O. Scott of the The New York Times said that “The Interview is pretty much what everyone thought it would be before all the trouble started: a goofy, strenuously naughty, hit-and-miss farce, propelled not by any particular political ideas but by the usual spectacle of male sexual, emotional and existential confusion.”

Richard Corliss of the Time: “Maybe you will love The Interview — if you can ever see the movie — as much as some people hate or fear it. But if you’re hoping for any cogent political satire here, then the joke’s on you.”

SONY COMPANIE HACKED?

Relations with North Korea have reached a new low with the accusations that it was somehow responsible for the hacking of emails at the Sony Corporation.

The American government immediately accused North Korea of being responsible for the hacking because of the “The Interview film” which aim was to kill North Korea leader.

The data included personal information about Sony Pictures employees and their families, e-mails between employees, information about executive salaries at the company, copies of unreleased Sony films, and other information. The hackers called themselves the "Guardians of Peace” and demanded the cancellation of the planned release of the film. North Korea has denied all responsibility, and some cyber security experts have cast doubt on the evidence, alternatively proposing that current or former Sony Pictures employees may have been involved in the hack.

This situation began in the Korean War with the division of the two Koreas and the intervention of the EEUU in the war. Here, you have more information for understand why they aren´t getting well.

KOREAN WAR

The conflict between Americans and North Koreans started on June 25, 1950 when the Korean War began.

At first, the war was a defensive one–a war to get the communists out of South Korea–and it went badly for the Allies. The North Korean army was well-disciplined, well-trained and well-equipped.

By the end of the summer, President Truman and General Douglas MacArthur, the commander in charge of the Asian theater, had decided on a new set of war aims. Now, for the Allies, the Korean War was an offensive one: It was a war to “liberate” the North from the communists.

Initially, this new strategy was a success. They pushed the North Koreans out of Seoul but American troops crossed the boundary and headed north toward the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and Communist China. The Chinese started to worry about protecting themselves from what they called “armed aggression against Chinese territory” so, Chinese leader Mao Zedong sent troops to North Korea and warned the United States to keep away from the Yalu boundary unless it wanted full-scale war.

Korea was divided in South Korea and North Korea.