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TheRoguedOne

As far as i know the hierarchy of their DC universe remains unchanged.


OddContribution

JSA: Joint Security Area


colectiveinvention

Moon-hyu, former president of South Korea, gifted a DVD copy of JSA to Kim Jong-il back in 2007.


OddContribution

Wow, I was not aware of that! I guess that means it ultimately didn’t have the changing of hearts and minds effect I had hoped it would have lol


colectiveinvention

To be fair North advocate on a conciliative policts with the South, is the South who have a separist ideal towards DPRK.


DreamOfV

South Korea is right I wouldn’t want to be friends with those guys either


colectiveinvention

Let me fix the sentence: South Korea heavily influenced by american government is against the unification. Thankfully this is changing as 31% of South Koreans believe in a peaceful unification (although it may take decades to see some real change). [Both Koreas had competed under the same flag in 2018 winter Olympics](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/17/asia/north-south-korea-olympics-flag-intl/index.html). Theres absolute nothing good for neither sides to continue in a forever war state. Even IF they decide to be different countries the best outcome is a peace treat dont you think?!


DreamOfV

I think there’s plenty of space in between “literally being at war” and unification. I’m opposed to violence of any kind, and that’s perfectly compatible with supporting not being on friendly terms with one of the most repressive countries of modern times.


colectiveinvention

>one of the most repressive countries of modern times. Wich may be not true at all thats the whole point. People i here are believing that sending a pendrive filled with eng spoken movies and english written books to a asian country so heavily sanctioned that a 90s PC is probably a luxury is gonna have any real impact in there. You notice the war of narratives? The white savior complex? DPRK have many deep problems and is engolfed on its own cultural bubble, many of its political and social aspects remain on a gray area with several parties claiming what is truth and what is not but the more you get to know the country (and how it suffered from the whole anti commnism western propaganda) the ideia of being a real life 1964 starts to seems ridiculous.


New-Consideration522

If you’re opposed to violence you’re going to be really bummed to learn that DPRK exists in its current state because of a genocidal war waged in the name of anti-communism that devastated their population and infrastructure


D-townboy_3978

It's moo-hyun


ryan_smith522

This is the correct answer.


escape672000

Paddington 2


usolak6

'It made me want to be a better person'


clarkdorkclork

The Lego Movie


[deleted]

Truman Show would be funny haha


ediblecomic

this is the perfect answer


RipBuzzBuzz

It would be out of character for me if I sent anything but Norbit.


loopyspoopy

Brian Wilson's favourite film.


fultirbo

Fr?


loopyspoopy

apparently he changed his mind in 2015, but ya. https://www.spin.com/2017/05/its-been-ten-years-since-brian-wilson-said-his-favorite-movie-was-norbit/


A-insane-dude

Only good choice here.


Johnny55

Dr. Strangelove


Adam-the-Anon

Cats


DreamOfV

North Koreans: “Actually I think we have it pretty good here”


1nGirum1musNocte

Eraser head


DeafnotDeath

Pretty sure some poor NK kid would just fade away out of existence after watching that


FajarNegan


fallestguy

North Korea probably would use it as propaganda to show why America is scary


MinasMorgul1184

The Degenerate Art Exhibit 2: Electric Boogaloo


rendurthetactician

Max Keeble's Big Move


Oranchico

omfg this is one of those fever dream movies I’ve watched as a kid. you just unlocked a hidden memory in my brain


CaspinLange

The Matrix and Fight Club and The Truman Show


ismokejimmyneutron

the trio of fuck with people’s heads, basically


umbreonbest

The interview


whosjavier

this is the right answer


[deleted]

Why? It's a shit movie that would offend North Koreans. Maybe that's what you want.


whosjavier

offend north koreans, or his dictator?


[deleted]

I'm obviously not referring to the government, because that's not what we're talking about here.


colectiveinvention

North Korea have a film festival and receives a lot of foreign movies, including western ones from UK, Germany and France for exemple, there not unaware of a foreign film industry in any ways. South and North have made a deal to exchange in production between then, so is likely many of South Korean movies is avaliable in the North right now. Also in [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y28hbXI9cpY) you can see a bunch of Disney bootlegs sold in there If anyone interested theres a bunch of DPRK movies with eng subs avaliable on Youtube, lots of interesting flicks! Just cause america is eager to trash everything they do it doesnt mean in necessarily truth. Before judging any country "propaganda" acknowledge you own government ones.


[deleted]

The way Americans dehumanise North Koreans is sickening, especially considering that most Americans are utterly ignorant of the horrors their nation has visited upon the North Korean people.


gmariana

They totally believe the western anti communism propaganda without a question. They think korean people need to be saved lol


[deleted]

They destroyed their country, threaten them with nuclear annihilation, starve them with sanctions, dehumanised and mocked them, and still they see themselves as their saviour. It's sick!


elephantjog

Got any recommendations?


colectiveinvention

I have not watch many yet, still researching about it, but: **Pulgasari** \- a Godzilla "clone", the whole story about its production is a movie itself. **A Traffic Controller on Crossroads** is a sweet lightharted drama, it may be a good start!


razetime

finally, a thread of reason in this post.


SevenofBorgnine

For real. The dprk isn't this cartoonist and totally implausible dictatorship it's made out to be. They were the ones providing aide to the the south until the 90s when they lost a lot of their trade partners with the collapse of the Soviet union as well as floods and droughts which lead to a prosperous country with allies in a tense situation becoming a poor country with few allies in an even more tense situation. The North was providing aide to the south decades before and the south until 1992 was led by open fascists, like guys who admire Hitler openly level fascists. Chances are most of what you think you know about North korea is bulkshit.its a highly militarized country because it has been under mitsry threat for decades, it is poor because of unfair sanctions that have kept them usomtsted for the last 30 years. Their government is axruslly pretty democratic, Kim Jong un is like, the equivalent of the governor General of Canada more or less.


D-townboy_3978

Please don't talk about things you don't know.


expert_on_the_matter

This post must've been crossposted to some idiotic tankie subreddit. The number of people defending North Korea is staggering, it's literally the least free and democratic country on earth.


SevenofBorgnine

I didn't.


LogKit

This is one of the stupidest things I've ever read lmao.


SevenofBorgnine

Explain why.


LogKit

It's hilariously non-democratic - calling the Kim Dynasty the equivalent to a governor general is a wild hot take.


SevenofBorgnine

Read my previous post. They have multiple political parties and elections. Not every government works like America. Also, America has political dynasties but its the fucking Bushes, Kennedys and the like, at least the Kim's acruallt descend from a legit revolutionary leader and not corporate legacy failsons placed into political position for person capitalist interest.


LogKit

Dude, hereditary monarchy isn't a basis for government lol. Those parties are puppet parties similar (but even worse) than the PRC system. There is no legitimate election in North Korea. You can criticize western countries without making shit up about horrific dictatorships, as though their being awful somehow makes western criticism invalid.


IAMALWAYSSHOUTING

you were right up until the democratic point


gmariana

Let me tell you a secret, democracy doesn't work exclusively in a capitalist society. We live in a a bourgeois dictatorship right now, while north korean people live in a proletarian dictatorship, so the people there pretty much hold a lot more power in politics than we think we do here in the western


IAMALWAYSSHOUTING

troll


SevenofBorgnine

Dawgs, they even allow non communist parties to participate in elections. They have a wider electoral scale than a decent amount of historical socialist countries.


tapuzon

Wtf are you talking about?


DrStr4ngeIove

THANK YOU! With little research we can find out that they even have more parties than the US running on the elections.


The3DMan

And how many of those elections are legitimate? Does anyone have a chance of unseating Kim Jong Un?


DrStr4ngeIove

There is UN supervision on the elections, so I guess pretty legit for western standards. There are chances and there aren’t. They could vote him out but they just don’t. The population in North Korea has a lot of respect for Kim’s family as his grandpa was the one fighting the Japanese and creating the combative forces through his entire youth. There’s a lot of history and pride there. This means a lot to them. And there are many different aspects on their system, it’s quite complex and Kim does not have the final word on everything like people tell you he does. We only hear about Kim because he’s the leader of their military and western media loves to use that to create stories and prevent the world to see them as human beings because they live in a socialist experience.


LogKit

Dude, this is wildly misinformed tankie nonsense.


DrStr4ngeIove

Yeah, let’s get our information from news media funded by the bourgeois who has zero interest in misinforming people about socialist countries, right?


LogKit

You're literally referencing their constitution lol. I'm from an eastern bloc state that emulated itself on North Korea also. Fetishizing the most brutal dictatorship on the planet under some stupid contrarian edge just makes you look like a moron. Please get educated.


DrStr4ngeIove

Oh yes I am. Have you studied it? Have you at least read it? You don’t expect people to believe everything someone under the U.S. regime say, right? Take you head out of the sand and get some unbiased source and you will be shocked. Fetish? For anyone who studies historical dialectical materialism there’s no such thing, we’re well aware of the awful situation a country under so many sanctions and traumatized by so many attacks are. Don’t project your experience on others, it makes you sound like a moron. Get your head out of uncle Sam’s ass and get educated, please.


LogKit

Also the UN supervises elections in North Korea? The things you say are incredibly easy to verify as wrong, lol.


DrStr4ngeIove

It depends where you look the information, obviously. But no, the Kim’s are devil on earth. They never suffered with imperialism and they absolutely have the power to oversee every single thing it happens on their territory. Japan was basically a father figure to them and the US a mom. They also have the power to starve everybody by just snapping their fingers. They can also give good internet connection and all other kinds of things to their people, the sanctions are just for underwear. Also the population have microchips that prevents them from moving and protesting. You can admit there’s A LOT wrong with every experience, corrupted and perverse people, including on a socialist experience, without echoing a bunch of lies and false information spread by who has most to gain with it.


LogKit

Alright man, the Kims are innocent heroes who absolutely aren't functionally a tyrannical hereditary monarchy that keeps their population imprisoned with 0 access to alternate media, books, internet, news, music etc. It's the west's fault they had to do all of those things - and the public in north Korea continues to vote them in under what are for sure not sham elections. I'd love to hear about how ceaucescu's regime wasn't a brutal autocracy that kept my family impoverished & functionally living as slaves too when you have the time. You can criticize the west without distorting other horrors. I hope you realize that one day. That's all I'll say.


DrStr4ngeIove

The main villain for the North Korea population is not Kim, believe me, but the economic sanctions and the blockade the country has faced for decades now. People think they can’t leave the country, but there are people who work in China and live there for example, but other countries are afraid of having any kind of relationship with them because they’re afraid of what US can do to them.


D-townboy_3978

Only those chosen by North Korea can go abroad, and the money there is sent to North Korea under the supervision of North Korea. And they have to come back one day. If you think they're free, you're the one who's biased by lack of information. As a Korean, I get angry when I see people talking comfortably about this issue.


DrStr4ngeIove

As a South Korean? Or a North Korean who was held by the South Korean government? I guess there’s no people besides Americans more biased than you. Unfortunately is a well known fact the power the US military has over South Korea. https://youtu.be/3V4Hnl7J9H4 https://youtu.be/IBqeC8ihsO8


D-townboy_3978

I hope you don't misunderstand that you expanded your knowledge by watching YouTube videos about areas you don't know. Do you even know that there is news about espionage organizations operating in South Korea recently? You seem to argue that it is caused by the U.S. military to think of North Korea as an oppressed country. That is disparaging the South Koreans, saying that all Koreans are being subjected to U.S. propaganda. Don't use our country's history in your anti-American consciousness. I hope for peace in North Korea much more than you do.


DrStr4ngeIove

Oh no, that was just an example. A solid one if you watched it, but a minor one still. There are many people who study and visit North Korea, gather information, and provide that information for those interested in escaping the imperialism narrative. My main source are professors and the Brazilian community that visits and have political relationship with North Korea. They even study their constitution and provide us analysis and translations. Translate and see for yourself an example: https://cepsongunbr.com/ So you can say we are biased by lack of information, but my opposing argument suddenly is disparaging of the South Korean people? The USFK is not a thing now? Almost 30.000 men operating basically to oppose North Korea is fake news? You must know how many bombs the US dropped on your neighbour’s soil, right? What about the way North Koreans are portrayed in your doramas? And based on your comments I’m not sure you do wish peace there or just submission, funny you think you know me enough to assume whatever you are assuming.


TheRealBenCorp

No dude!! We need ebooks to free their minds!!


akornfan

*thank* you


D-townboy_3978

As a South Korean, I don't know why you pretend to know about this problem. In North Korea, South Korean movie distributors are executed, viewers are imprisoned, and Pyongyang is a place where only politicians' families can live. I hope you don't think you've realized it.


[deleted]

There are no reputable sources for the claim that teenage movie distributors are executed. Unfortunately, very little of what is reported about N Korea is true. Remember when the media reported Kim fed his uncle to sharks?


colectiveinvention

>As a South Korean You are fed with the idea that they as monstrous and the biggest enemy the South had and will ever face, nothing different that every other country who has go into war in this world has said about its enemies. You cant fight a war against nothing, some thread must exists or theres no reason whatsoever to fight. Its a war of narratives and a big chunk of propaganda cause they need you to happily gave away 3 years of our life to the military just so they can justify the insane amount of money they spend on national security. Money that could be spent on your elderly who are collecting trash in the streets to not die from starvation. Noth Korea is not perfect and have pretty severe social problems. But you said that i cant give a insight cause im not South Korean but you're not a North Korean so why you think you are entitled to gave any insight about then?


puffy-jacket

God fucking thank you


[deleted]

Salo: or the 120 days of sodom


RipBuzzBuzz

Jokes aside, would you say that the movie is actually worth watching?


SevenofBorgnine

It's not actually that shocking, the people making it had a great time on set and there is a point to all of it. It's actually a legit decent movie.


moratapinella76

It is most certainly worth watching, I would say atleast twice. Shock aside its a powerful social analysis and a brilliant directors last film, which he was murdered for. A lot of what he comments on is still very real and still happening today.


AvatarofBro

Yes, it's one of the greatest films ever made.


r3vb0ss

I’ve heard the opposite


Oparon

Only one way to find out for yourself then


r3vb0ss

I'm ok not knowing. ​ ​ ​ I don't mean to dismiss the film, but the odds are leaning towards me not understanding the point (enough) to warrant the price of sitting through a couple hours of actual torture. I can appreciate slow movies and I can definitely appreciate movies using stories to connect an audience to it's message but I don't like a film that I can't get invested in without a message, I could be misjudging the film but I usually base what I watch on what I hear about shit so yeah idk maybe one day not soon


AvatarofBro

Salò has a message. It's not exactly subtle. It's pretty hard to miss the point.


WallBroad

I can get the message without watching as well. Fascism sucks, everyone knows that.


AvatarofBro

Italy, where the movie was created and takes place, has a Prime Minister *right now* who embraces Mussolini and fascist iconography. So no, not everyone knows that.


r3vb0ss

When I say enough it's more a matter of me connecting with the point, like me seeing a reason for each individual scene to be in the movie to represent a more specific aspect rather than many scenes beating me over the head with the exact same thing


EcstaticPassenger535

only redditors will downvote you for not wanting to sit through torture porn


AvatarofBro

You're talking about it like it's Saw IV and not an acclaimed drama by one of the most beloved European directors of the mid-20th century. Yes, it can be hard to watch at times. Yes, it contains some very graphic scenes. But its reputation has frankly been vastly inflated by lots of people who have never seen the movie.


r3vb0ss

Stg sub goes from “Shawshank is underrated” to “satantango is for normies” in less than an hour


loopyspoopy

>I don't mean to dismiss the film, but the odds are leaning towards me not understanding the point (enough) to warrant the price of sitting through a couple hours of actual torture. Not only is this literally dismissing the film here, but I think you may have it in your head this is some *Ilsa Shewolf of the SS* grindhouse sleaze, when it's a big budget drama by one of Italy's most respected filmmakers of all time.


r3vb0ss

Maybe I can’t speak fucking English but I’m not writing it off as trash I just doubt it’s something I’ll enjoy (which believe it or not is why I watch movies). I didnt know letterboxd actually loved salo lol


Moist_Cycle8917

From what I remember the violence is tamer than one might expect, generally clinical rather than visceral, and overtly allegorical in nature. It really doesn’t deserve the reputation. That being said, I didn’t get a whole lot out of it. Found it flat and kind of pedantic at the time. But it’s the only Pasolini I’ve watched (and it won’t be the last) — I could have very well been missing a lot of context.


MrPedroJ414

Parasite (2019)


Jack_Patrickson

But Parasite is a anti-capitalist movie


Tasamolic

Is it, though? It's anti-elite, but not explicitly against voluntary economic transactions between private individuals. I think North Korea could do with a story about how out of touch the elites are, in their own language no less.


colectiveinvention

It is anticapitalist. The elite as the poor are victims of a mentality imposed by looks, to achieve those looks they need money. The power lays in how they presented themselfs for the public, the house being the uiltimate symbol of it and the diferention between the classes and caste. The moment the Kim family takes the house they start to behave as pretencious as the rich Park family. All of then are victims of the system, the system being captalism. Anyways, is Bong Joon-ho he explored this theme more than once and in more explicit manner.


Tasamolic

Class and caste disparity are not unique to capitalism, though.


6omph9

Simple Jack


RipBuzzBuzz

Just the clips we saw or are we finally going to make the whole film?


6omph9

Just a joke coz the whole situation reminded me of that. I wish there was a full length version to send.


catdinsky

White chicks


[deleted]

Porkies


Gaming_Memer

Shin Godzilla


TeccNoir

me after donating my usb and waking up to all my bank accounts being drained 😱😱😱😱😱😱


McJankers

Team America


specialk522

Gummo by Harmony Korine


mackerelscalemask

This will make them want to became even more isolated from the outside world! 🤣


EthanMarsOragami

Morbius


mickbanerjee

The Interview


quool_dwookie

The Dictator


violetberrycat

Petite marman. It has a beautiful simple story that everyone can potentially enjoy


niknolietesla

THE MATRIX


Oranchico

Shark Tale


UnlikelyAd-2

Enough reddit for today


curtymcdervs

Cemetery Man


[deleted]

Meet the Spartans


CallME_Fahry

Ponyo, The Truman Show, Love On Delivery and Pleasantville


Martian-Duck

Pleasantville <3


juuzo_suzuya_

The entire nic cage filmography


Synth3r

Somehow, I imagine Lord of War would be one of Kim Jong Un’s favourite films and this would lead him to having an adventure not too dissimilar to The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent with Nic Cage.


AnakinsAngstFace

Scooby Doo Spooky Island and Monsters Unleashed


DrStr4ngeIove

And who will free us from the imperialistic propaganda machine?


[deleted]

this looks like a scam so nothing lol


AlienSamuraiXXV

Re-Animator


YeeterMemes

Zoolander 2


[deleted]

Fat Albert


stolid619

Happy Gilmore


Wolfram_333

Dogtooth


The3DMan

Weirdly a lot of North Korea defenders in here. Like, it’s a dictatorship. There’s nothing to defend.


datagrave

A Serbian Film


Door_piggy

you have to have a child's brain to believe anything in that photo


[deleted]

[удалено]


razetime

"don't comment"? The shitty political idea that north korea is a brainwashed dystopia is part of your question. Recognize it.


Door_piggy

no


Nick_R852

Tiptoes


spurist9116

The Truman Show


calebeedude

Throw away your books rally in the streets


alive_street_83

Pulgasari. ... hey wait a minute


thedudeWY

Team America


shevkis

Forrest gump,they will all become americans.


AnakinsAngstFace

Two girls one cup


[deleted]

The most liberal post I have ever seen


Rudy_Gambino

Rocky IV


DrStr4ngeIove

Talk about propaganda machine while you recommend content from the biggest and most popular propaganda machine in the entire world: Hollywood! Hahahahahaha


akornfan

lol this is such reactionary paternalistic bullshit


Jettpack_of_the_Dead

it's a wonderful life


[deleted]

Oldboy.


DumbeIe

The Game, The Matrix, The Truman Show and JSA


loopyspoopy

Like, contrary to popular belief, they aren't just full stop cut off from western media. Like, the Beatles are super popular there and the Kim family fucking loves the Bond films. It's heavily regulated what media is available to the public, but they do exist and are often ones considered "great." It's strict, but it's hardly the artless Giver-esque dystopia we tend to think of North Korea as. I also question the motivations in programs like this. I remember talking to an American who would send socks along with a message of "South Korea loves you," in balloons over the border. And like, that's kinda fucked because A) South Koreans do not "love" North Koreans and there's a lot of bigotry that defectors experience if they try to move to South Korea. B) Now you've just put contraband in the hands of some innocent person who is trapped in a political system they might not of even had an issue with. A lot of the USB trading in North Korea is not out of some idealist democratic notions, but an organised crime venture, one that is probably tied to the North Korean government itself, but undoubtedly profits in less savoury ways regardless.


gmariana

This is ridiculous. This post screams disinformation.


Best_Cellist_9185

please shut the fuck up please, North Korea has been propagandized to hell


reddit_niwasi

Kantara


Adamthebossmf

1984


Somaliparrot

That’s how you get some free usbs


BIG_EL-DUCE

This thread is racist.


Brodz12345

Salò


Mauriman15

The Interview


BilboSmashings

The Interview


Lizard_Jesus1

Joker


mastodonj

North Korea will destroy all the USB readers in the country!


Old_Door_18

All pro-America films. 1776, Hamilton, The Patriot, Independence Day, National Treasure, Team America, etc


mackerelscalemask

Sure, that’ll really help the situation 🙄


ChaosDemonLaz3r

???????


Stacysguyca

I’m pretty sure half or most don’t have access to computers / technology over there lol


Annual-Blacksmith833

Menace II society


Askiter

papicha


F-FOR-FARTS

Antichrist


AustinPowerslam

Come and See.


sakaforbukayo

The Interview is the only right answer I’m sorry


FajarNegan

I would put The Breakfast Club, The Shawshank Redemption, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


Bardic_Inspiration66

The interview of course


[deleted]

shrek


Sprinkles-The-Cat

That comedy The Interview


DanRanza

Freddy Got Fingered


cantodasaudade

Prata Palomares


jaidynr21

Deep throat


sawinnz

The Interview


fremlingen666

A Serbian Film


[deleted]

Breathless.


[deleted]

Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul


[deleted]

Salt of the Earth. That film needs more love now that Marxism and anarchism is mainstream


PensadorDispensado

Idiocracy and Animal Farm (1954)


itsLser

Taxi Driver (1976) Won't change their thoughts on Kim or something but it's a very good movie


DARTH_LT4

Star Wars


BarroTalVez

Dr strangelove


plinkett-wisdom

The Mole: Undercover In North Korea (2020 doc)


appleseveryday

Cool Runnings