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I am not normally one for documentaries but so remarkable has been said about the regime in North Korea that this movie was impossible to pass up. One cannot be anything else but sceptical when reading the jacket notes about the access of the documentary crew and the lack of interference by the minders but after watching the movie it is certain why this is the case.
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The subject matter is relatively straightforward. North Korea operates under a collectivist regime where individuality is sacrificed to the needs of the plot. The documentary examines a public manifestation of that overarching impetus in the Mass Games and counterposes the lives of two individuals aspiring to participate in the presentation before the modern leader of the country. As a backdrop to that poke the documentary looks at the ordinary lives that these two people lead in their slide to the event.
What emerges is a describe of a society where the inhabitants glimpse the outside world from a perspective which is radically different from that of secular westerners. The idea which continualy comes to mind is gestalt which means that the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts. What is entertaining to me is that there is no coming together of either plan. The documentary presents a describe which is sumptuous in it’s colours and organisational feats but which illustrates to our eyes the paucity of the collectivist ethos and the wound which is done to the individuals in that society. At the same time ina gestalt switch the viewer who holds such views sees the same film as one which illustrates the achievement of something for the popular excellent despite the grand adversity. Shoertages are endured and people are taught to be self-reliant, a view so proudly associated with the concepts of Liberalism (in the European rather than the American sense) .
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One is transfixed as the movie progresses with the determination and decide the two young girls note in order to attain, for them, the highest possible accolade in their society.
From a slightly more jaundiced perspective it is not surprising that this film was shot without interference. Both families under the notice of the filmcrew live in Pyon Yang, rightly considered to be the showcase of North Korea’s socialist sytem. The only departure from that city is to a collective farm for a brief holiday and although the famine’s and food help are mentioned it is not possible to infer any generalisation about life in the country from that one example which is not filmed in powerful detail.
All in all this is a film about individual development in a totalitarian position. For those of us who aspire to Liberal ideals it is a testament to how individuals can attain what they place out to attain, regardles of the prevailing political sytem. For those of a more communitarian crooked, it is a film which brings out the best features of a collective system where the individual subordinates their fill needs to those of the society as a whole.
This certainly is a spectacular movie, no getting away from that. It is also the first view under a very heavy curtain and hopefully will not be the last. As a counterfactual it would be keen to look a North Korean documentary on a western democracy to try to understand their society a shrimp more.
I highly recommend A Site of Mind, a newly released documentary on North Korea. Why do I recommend it? It is particularly worth seeing because British filmmaker, Daniel Gordon, was actually given permission to film by North Korea, one of the least known or understood nations in the world. The film dramatically conveys how an authoritarian regime has shaped the minds of its people. North Koreans are totally indoctrinated in believing in their Dear Leader, communism and the conception that their country is the best plot in the world. The film provides images of Pyongyang and the draw of life of the people who reside there. Interviews recount that North Koreans are very eager in our war in Iraq and convinced that the United States is an imperialist threat to their diagram of life and that our economic sanctions are the source of their hardships. American audiences will be surprised to notice healthy and blissful North Koreans and to hear them stoically admit that food and energy shortages are piece of city life.
The film focuses on two enjoyable North Korean schoolgirls (ages 11 and 14) who are selected to command for the Mass Games and whose lives revolve around a rigorous daily routine to prepare for the Games in hopes that Kim Jong Il (often known as the Dear Leader) will be there to stare them create and know that they are well-behaved communists. The shots of the staunch Mass Games where 100,000 people participate in an elaborately choreographed exhibition of dazzlingly vivid, perfectly synchronized routines will halt in your mind forever. Needless to say, the Dear Leader never showed up for any of the Games.
Koreans understandably will look this as a shaded film and it is. I personally accept it tragic, interesting, opinion provoking and invaluable for many reasons. It is my hope that A Position of Mind will build Americans more attentive to the existing crisis on the Korean peninsula and the ongoing threat of nuclear war.
Mary Connor, educator and author of “The Koreas: A Global Studies Handbook.
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