This week´s Saturday Night propaganda movie was David Gordon´s “A State of Mind” - a documentary about two North Korean gymnastics selected to perform in the Mass Games. These Games are held sporadically in Pyong Yang usually as part of the "largest spectacle on Earth" in tribute to “Fathers” Kim Jong-il and father / predecessor Kim Il Sung. Both girls are just two of 80,000 gymnasts specially selected to perform not just for all the VIPs but on National television (well there is no alternative in the 5 hour daily broadcasts) chosen from millions.
These girls practice for up to 6 hours a day for such an honour and make up just a few minutes of the Mass Games which involve up to million citizens paying homage to the Great Leader. The Mass Games appears to be on par with what was witnessed at the recent Beijing Games – unbelievably amazing! Check it out for yourselves.
There is plenty of juicy stuff including a potent interview with one of the girls´ grand-father who witnessed first hand the devastation inflicted by the US in the 1950s. He can´t understand how humans can inflict such horrendous actions against others. Cameras follow the girls around including attending the English class and Revolutionary History. Totally frightening! The radios broadcast in every citizens´kitchen and whilst it enjoys a volume control, it can not be turned off. Maybe the translations were poor, but the language of this country/cult is pure communist archaicisms.
There is a new documentary out on our comrades in North Korea which intersperses interviews with political prisoners and defectors, N. Korean propaganda movies and a contemporary dance piece released this year entitled Kimjongilia. Sounds pretty good too.
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