Propaganda

Tuesday, November 12
8:30 pm
Propaganda

2012 / New Zealand / Korean and English with English subtitles / 96 min / DCP Director: Slavko Martinov
Cast: Eugene Chang, Susannah Kenton Print Source: Slavko Martinov

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Originally shown on YouTube in 10 parts, Propaganda appears to be an inflammatory, North Korean documentary intended to alert its people to the ills of the ever-present influence of Western Culture. Featuring a stilted narrator and numerous clips from American entertainment and news shows, this bizarre treatise illustrates how capitalism and its poisonous impact has spawned a bloated society of uniform people born to worship consumerism and materialism. The economic element is also exposed, emphasizing how America’s anti-communist ways have resulted in a divided nation where the small upper tier of the wealthy rules over an ever growing, media brainwashed, impoverished class that worships such vacuous celebrities as Paris Hilton. Oddly entertaining and mesmerizing, the uncanny and stunning Propaganda feels like a portrait of the West as seen through a funhouse mirror.