The Interview Pros And Cons

Most people, especially those in positions of political power and prominence, try to keep their mistakes and misdeeds hidden, especially those that would result in adverse or detrimental consequences. In order to conceal their misconducts and avoid public scandals, most government officials will either silence those who know the truth or blatantly lie and create a façade to hide the reality from the public and the media. These tactics, employed by both the North and South Korean governments, are seen in the 2014 film, The Interview, and the 2003 film, Silmido, respectively. In The Interview, an American talk show host and his producer are recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to expose the realities of North Korean society while

Since its establishment in the late 20th century, North Korea has increasingly isolated itself from the global community. According to Schoppa, after two fatal storms struck the Korean peninsula and resulted in widespread famine, North Korea “initially turned down offers of help from the South Korean Red Cross and the UN’s World Food Program…North Korea said that it ‘did not need outside support.’” In The Interview, the film creators use the problem of continuous famine and hunger in North Korea when the fictional American television personality, Dave Skylark, is tricked early in the film into believing that the people of North Korea were fed and healthy. Later, he realizes that the surplus of “food” and the “grocery stores” he first saw were plastic representations of food and artificial backdrops that depicted the inside of a grocery store. Through this, the creators of The Interview are attempting to reveal how the North Korean government is trying to deceive their international

Haggard and Lindsay claim, “In July [of 2014], Pyongyang had asked Washington to block the release of the film and had even lodged a protest to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon.” After the U.S. government refused to be hindered by North Korea, a group, called the “Guardians of Peace,” began to send veiled threats to Sony Pictures Entertainment, which hinted at potential harm towards Sony employees and referenced the September, 11th World Trade Center attacks in 2001. After the FBI released a statement that attributed the cyber hacks and treats to North Korea, it becomes clear that the North Korean government went to extreme lengths to prevent the release of a film that would not only expose their neglect and maltreatment of their people, but also depict the brutal assassination of their supreme