by Yealin Lee, staff reporter
The Interview is a comedy about the plans to assassinate North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong Un. The film, in the beginning, was to center around Kim Jong il, but since he passed away in 2011, Kim Jong Un took power; changing the films script.
Due to this movie, North Korea accused the U.S government of the making of the film. According to CNN News, North Korea warned the United States, “in a dispatch on state media, the totalitarian regime warned the United States that its “citadels” will be attacked, dwarfing the hacking attack on Sony that led to the cancellation of the film’s release.”
Although North Korea denies hacking Sony, President Obama clarifies that it was a hack and cyber vandalism.
“Of course they threatened the United States, if someone made a movie about shooting President Obama, half of this country would be outraged as well,” junior Maryann Liu said.
Even though the film was said to be a work of private individuals, CNN News states that North Korea insisted otherwise and said, “The DPRK(Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) has clear evidence that the U.S. administration was deeply involved in the making of such dishonest reactionary movie.”
“I don’t think that threatening the U.S. is reasonable, because technically it’s limiting our act and freedom of speech, considering it was a private work,” junior Joshua Vergara said.
On the CNN interview, Sony Picture’s spokesperson and the company had disagreeing ideas on whether the film was to be cut off, or continued and released to the public.
“I think North Korea is not being reasonable, it’s just a movie, it’s supposed to be a funny comedy,” sixth grader Melissa Boba said.
According to other sources such as BBC News, “A North Korean foreign ministry spokesman said in state media that the movie’s release would be an ‘act of war’.”
After the hack, Sony stopped the release of the film. And although it was not released to all theaters (only a select few), it is still watchable online.
