The Juche Idea
The Juche Idea

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- 62/100 based on 88 votes
  • Released: 2008
  • Runtime: 62 mins
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Ready for a Marxist-Leninist-musical documentary? The Busby Berkeley of propaganda, Jim Finn, follows a South Korean video artist in North Korea who hopes to revitalize Juche cinema, somewhat inspired by a true story of a South Korean filmmaker kidnapped in the 70s to make the North Korean film industry better. In the mod 60s, film-fanatic Kim Jong Il adapted his father's Juche (pronounced choo-CHAY) philosophy to propaganda, film and art. Translated as self-reliance, Juche i... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Juche Idea:

Jung Yoon Lee
Daniela Kostova
Sung Kim
Oleg Mavromatti

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Ready for a Marxist-Leninist-musical documentary? The Busby Berkeley of propaganda, Jim Finn, follows a South Korean video artist in North Korea who hopes to revitalize Juche cinema, somewhat inspired by a true story of a South Korean filmmaker kidnapped in the 70s to make the North Korean film industry better. In the mod 60s, film-fanatic Kim Jong Il adapted his father's Juche (pronounced choo-CHAY) philosophy to propaganda, film and art. Translated as self-reliance, Juche is a hybrid of Confucian and authoritarian Stalinist pseudo-socialism. Finn is the undisputed champion of propaganda as pure art, and this is his best yet. He uses the tools of traditional documentary, formal avant-garde, language lesson videos, and some sci-fi recreations to dig down to the souls of governments, leaders and media manipulation. No kitsch mockumentary, just careful analysis of the love of cinema that is as surreally funny as it is truth. Isn't art revolutionary? Is there humanism within all those faces?

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Boxoffice Magazine - 7/10 by Mark KeizerIn his densely constructed and pretty damn brilliant film The Juche Idea, Finn takes aim at North Korean president Kim Jong-il's theories on cinema and how its ultimate purpose is to advance political ideology and party loyalty.
NYC Movie Guru - 7/10 by Avi OfferAn unconventional and wildly imaginative combination of humor, satire and faux documentary as a delightful and refreshing medium to enlighten the audience about Juche.
Time Out - 6/10 by S. James SnyderIn the director’s hands, these societal passion plays and “documentaries” offer a terrifying, top-down perversion of art itself--another insidious extension of politics by other means.
Film Journal International - 6/10 by Eric MonderIntriguing experimental feature takes playful aim at the North Korean propaganda machine.
User Review - 10/10 by Bupos KThis is a remarkable film: a sort of free form essay on cinema, North Korean philosophy, and awesomely corny jokes on socialism and socialist art. This is probably more formally ambitious than Finn's prior work, the amazing Interkosmos, and in spirit reminds me a lot of Dusan Makavejev. I can't really think of anyone else who exhibits this much intellectual ambition to understand the differences between socialism and capitalism and who has such a great since of humor about it.
User Review - 8/10 by Herschel MThis film will make you feel baffled and manipulated, just as the director intended, as it assaults you with a barrage of propaganda made both by the Kim Jong Il regime in North Korea and by Jim Finn in Upstate New York. And you will laugh.
User Review - 6/10 by Natalie MA bizarre, funny, and a bit obtuse documentary/mockumentary about the philosophies of Juche cinema
User Review - 6/10 by Mario Minteresting ... maybe too arthouse for me

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