It’s no comfort, but my post of 6/29/14 (and
maybe 6/15) on this subject was prescient.
While I am repulsed by North Korea’s attack against Sony, and it’s
(and/or surrogates’) threats against theaters and moviegoers are highly reprehensible,
and I understand George Clooney’s wanting actors, directors, and studios to
take a stand against a chilling blow to artist freedom, there is a core element
to blame.
Rogen’s idiocy in making the film, and Sony’s
decision to back it/release it (rescinded at the last moment), need to be
condemned in just as harsh terms. A film
that promotes, even in comedic terms, the assassination of a living, present
leader of another country? A country
that is nuclear armed, volatile, and willing to use violence? And from a film distributor that is at the core
Japanese? With all that would mean given
the terrible history between Japan and Korea in the last 200 years? And with the actors in the film actually
coached by real CIA agents?
The sort of uninformed, brash or even arrogant
stupidity displayed by Rogen/Sony is appalling but becoming too common. Yet if it has even ANY elements of a CIA
attempt to snub, warn, or make nervous North Korean leadership through a film vehicle,
that’s even more disturbing.
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