Sunday 31 August 2014

How Western "docu-dramas" about the DPRK are being made.-the imperialist lie machine in action

How Western "docu-dramas" about the DPRK are being made.
 
A couple of years ago, during our trip to the DPRK, there was a man in our group called David Kinsella, a documentary filmmaker from Northern Ireland who has lived in Norway for the last 20 years.
 
What Mr. Kinsella was actually doing in the DPRK and what plans he had for his stay in that land, I already have described in my sketch "Red-red, freckled ..." (see English translation attached), so I will not repeat myself here.
 
And here’s what happened after.
 
After the Korean comrades scrutinized more closely the "portfolio" of Mr. Kinsella, including his "masterpieces" such as "Killing Girls" and "Beautiful Tragedy", he never got permission to shoot his new film in the DPRK. But it did not stop him from making another libelous piece of "work", especially since he already had some film and photo materials taken in the DPRK during his trip as a tourist. He is hoping that they will be enough to give his future creation a certain degree of plausibility.
 
But in reality, his movie "The Wall", much touted as an " unprecedented film production in North Korea and Northern Ireland. A David Kinsella film premiere 2015" https://www.facebook.com/296500830364159/photos/a.763592873654950.1073741829.296500830364159/781156215231949/?type=1&permPage=1) was filmed in the most neglected and impoverished ghettos of Belfast, with South Korean actress Yuna Shin (http://www.castingcallpro.com/uk/view.php?uid=296997 ), invited from London  and starring as his fictional North Korean Yun Hee.
 
Here are a few pictures of his future "masterpiece" (in the attachment), and the first lines of the so-called "script" which Kinsella already started to pen back in Pyongyang (in between countless pints of beer at the hotel). His co-writer, Dutchman Klaas Bense,  as far as I know, has never even visited the DPRK.
 
Kinsella had no qualms about the lie that the shooting of his film took place in North Korea, where men supposedly even "blocked the main street in Pyongyang early in the morning" for the shoot.
 
 
 
But then he blurts out the truth on his Facebook page: "Location scouting in Belfast and casting for "The WALL" We turn Belfast into "North Korea" (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152292067955039&set=pb.573835038.-2207520000.1409390997.&type=3&theatre).
 
Funds for his trip to the DPRK and for production costs were provided by the Norwegian Film Institute, that is, a public institution of that Scandinavian country.
 
 According to Kinsella, it is "the second film of my trilogy on EVIL" (in capital letters, as in the original).
 
Do we need to say more, in order to understand what he is being paid for?
 
"In ‘The Wall’ we learn to take our own decisions and believe what we see and not what others tell us to see, " - that is the theme of this fabricated tale, in which we are told to believe that life in a Northern Irish ghetto, where people live like this:
 
 
- which I see with my own eyes every day! -, is akin to life in the DPRK, where people have no idea of  what unemployment, drug addiction, sectarian murder, and child alcoholism are.
 
You know, Davy, we think we can live without what you and your sponsors and bosses are telling us to believe!

An Irish Friend of the DPRK and KFA Member

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