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  • 2010
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The Juche Idea

Summary In the late 1960s Kim Jong Il guaranteed his succession as the Dear Leader of North Korea by adapting his father’s Juche (pronounced choo-CHAY) philosophy to propaganda, film, and art. Translated as self-reliance, Juche is a hybrid of Confucianism and authoritarian Stalinist pseudo-socialism. The film is about a South Korean video artist...

Written By: Jong-Il Kim

  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 2 m
  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 2 m

The Juche Idea

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Summary In the late 1960s Kim Jong Il guaranteed his succession as the Dear Leader of North Korea by adapting his father’s Juche (pronounced choo-CHAY) philosophy to propaganda, film, and art. Translated as self-reliance, Juche is a hybrid of Confucianism and authoritarian Stalinist pseudo-socialism. The film is about a South Korean video artist...

Written By: Jong-Il Kim

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The film's satirical commentary about the intersection of politics and art is rarified, to be sure, but there is enough pointed humor in its execution to make The Juche Idea a provocative if intellectually challenging experience.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
70
In 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.
By Mark Keizer FULL REVIEW
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In 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.
By S. James Snyder FULL REVIEW
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The Juche Idea is meant to be a comedy, one that cuts two ways: mocking the strictures placed on moviemakers in both Communist and capitalist systems. Viewers who don’t share the radical-nostalgist sensibility of Mr. Finn, who teaches at Emerson College in Boston, may find the humor both too rarefied and too obvious.
By Mike Hale FULL REVIEW

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Release Date May 28, 2010
Duration 1 h 2 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Ann Arbor Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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