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North Korea: Inside the Mind of a Dictator

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North Korea: Inside the Mind of a Dictator

2021Movie

A journey through Kim Jong Un’s past and present to understand the man and the myth who holds North Korea’s uncertain future in his hands.

7.0 (307)IMDb tt13879908

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First 50 subtitle cues from Kidnapped and Forced to Make Action Films.srt

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It's 1985 and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is preparing to debut
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its greatest cinematic achievement. it's a monster
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movie called Pulgasari and it's the product of a virtually unlimited production budget.
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Like nearly all North Korean films before it Pulgasari is presented as a tribute to
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the working people of a bygone era who found themselves at the mercy of an invading oppressor,
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until their cries are answered by the sudden arrival of a mystical savior.
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Little is known about the country that produced it, the so-called hermit kingdom.
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Culturally isolated with a strict adherence to nationalism,
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outsiders can only speculate about what goes on inside. But in many ways Pulgasari is
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meant to change that. It's North Korea's attempt at an international blockbuster
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and an effort to establish itself as a country with valuable artistic contribution.
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And with an economy on the verge of bankruptcy and dwindling options for exports, the country's
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in desperate need of a win. But just as in the movie, a great sacrifice must be made to bring
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Pulgasari into existence, and there were only two filmmakers in the world who could make it.
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Lured into the country, ripped away from their children,
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forced to lie and humiliate themselves on an international stage,
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given a complete ideological realignment, and ordered to create a masterpiece...
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it took the ruination of two human lives to give Pulgasari to the People's Republic of Korea,
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but to quote the film itself, "as long as Pulgasari is with us our victory is assured."
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Pulgasari consumes everything the small farming village needs to survive, from their tools to
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their blood, in order to grow strong enough to protect them. And for a country on the brink
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of famine, with a staunch military-first economic policy, the metaphor wasn't lost on its audience.
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But Pulgasari's director was an outsider, what some would even call the enemy.
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He was a prolific South Korean filmmaker named Shin Sang-ok, once the pride of his country but
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now a source of national shame. The movie would be seen as a betrayal to the country where he'd begun
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his career, but for Shin Pulgasari was little more than a diversion meant to facilitate an escape.
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Only two years before Pulgasari began filming, Shin was in a North Korean prison serving a
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sentence of ambiguous length. The only crime he'd committed was attempting to return home.
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Shin had been in North Korea since 1978 but he hadn't come willingly.
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He had been abducted while in Hong Kong where he had been searching for his ex-wife, the South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee.
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Choi had gone missing earlier that year. News reports in the west suggested that she traveled
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to Hong Kong for a film but then she'd vanished with her luggage untouched in her hotel room.
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Choi had one of the most recognizable faces in South Korea.
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She was the beautiful Chunyang, locked away for rejecting the advances of the village governor.
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She was the grieving widow of a fallen air force pilot. She was the legendary Madame White Snake
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who defied the gods by disguising her true form in order to live on earth as a mortal.
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Throughout her career, Shin was usually the one behind the camera,
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directing his wife in more than 30 films. They were melodramatic even by 1950s standards.
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Most films feature at least one instance of Choi literally collapsing under the weight
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of her own emotions, often accompanied by someone trying to shake some sense into her.
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But their movies had a certain intimacy, always prying into their character's inner lives,
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and their production company, Shin Films, helped set the stage for what the South Korean
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film industry would ultimately become, with Choi as the undeniable face of the company.
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Choi's disappearance was a matter of national emergency but the authorities had, quote,
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"no clues in her disappearance," and if Choi had decided to leave everything in
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order to restart her life then it would have meant she'd abandoned her children.
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Shin and Choi were both in their 50s and they hadn't made a film together in six years. Shin
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had even started another family following their divorce. But in 1978, Shin found himself in Hong
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Kong, retracing the steps of his ex-wife, and it was there he was lured to the beaches of Repulse
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Bay on the promise of obtaining a counterfeit visa in order to remain in the country.