That movie has to be self aware, right? There's a scene where they joke North Koreans are brainwashed by propaganda depicting violence against their enemies. The climax of the film is Kim Jong Un getting graphically exploded by a rocket.
Chapter begins bottom of page 96 in this PDF. It should not only answer your question but give some further insights. I began by posting a comment with excerpts from this chapter, but hexbear ate my comment for being "too long" and I'm not about to copy-paste and reformat the line breaks in those paragraphs again.
I was an American teen in 2014, people accepted everything they heard about North Korea without a hint of irony. Like I remember hearing a rumor in high school that Kim would feed his enemies to piranhas :kim-peace:
North Korea was thought of as a wacky, modern-day version of Nazi Germany, so no violence against a dictator like him would be considered unjustified
That movie has to be self aware, right? There's a scene where they joke North Koreans are brainwashed by propaganda depicting violence against their enemies. The climax of the film is Kim Jong Un getting graphically exploded by a rocket.
It’s possible. Rogen himself didn’t believe that North Korea hacked Sony, so that could’ve been a PR stunt that Americans fell for
There's a whole chapter about this movie in the book "National Security Cinema"
Chapter begins bottom of page 96 in this PDF. It should not only answer your question but give some further insights. I began by posting a comment with excerpts from this chapter, but hexbear ate my comment for being "too long" and I'm not about to copy-paste and reformat the line breaks in those paragraphs again.
I was an American teen in 2014, people accepted everything they heard about North Korea without a hint of irony. Like I remember hearing a rumor in high school that Kim would feed his enemies to piranhas :kim-peace:
North Korea was thought of as a wacky, modern-day version of Nazi Germany, so no violence against a dictator like him would be considered unjustified