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.
Since
that, there is a politic conflict with both countries and they are always threatening
to launch missiles and nuclear bombs.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30512032
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-interview/critic-reviews
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-interview/critic-reviews
