The Juche Idea

The Juche Idea

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-05-28

Languages:

Korean, English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

62 min

IMDB Ratings:

(66 Reviews)

Director:

Jim Finn

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Jim Finn

Kim Jong-il (additional text)

Fullplot:

Ready for a Marxist-Leninist-musical documentary? The Busby Berkeley of propaganda, Jim Finn, follows a South Korean video artist in North Korea who hopes to revitalize Juche cinema, somewhat inspired by a true story of a South Korean filmmaker kidnapped in the 70s to make the North Korean film industry better. In the mod 60s, film-fanatic Kim Jong Il adapted his father's Juche (pronounced choo-CHAY) philosophy to propaganda, film and art. Translated as self-reliance, Juche is a hybrid of Confucian and authoritarian Stalinist pseudo-socialism. Finn is the undisputed champion of propaganda as pure art, and this is his best yet. He uses the tools of traditional documentary, formal avant-garde, language lesson videos, and some sci-fi recreations to dig down to the souls of governments, leaders and media manipulation. No kitsch mockumentary, just careful analysis of the love of cinema that is as surreally funny as it is truth. Isn't art revolutionary? Is there humanism within all those faces?

Comments:

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By:

Donna Smith

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