Tuesday, December 18, 2012

A Movie Junky's Themed Suggestions

So, I love watching movies.  I also enjoy a large range of themes.  I thought I would share some of my favorites.  Basically that is it.  Feel free to give recommendations in the comments.  I got an IMDb account, so check out my lists there (username: clar-bar).

North Korea Documentary Series
1. National Geographic: Inside North Korea (An Overview)
2. A State of Mind (State Ideology)
3. Kimjongilia (Forced Labor Camps, the Lives of Soldiers, and tales from Other Escapees)
4. Seoul Train (The Underground Railroad) 

Other Suggestions: The Juche Idea and Crossing the Line
*Vice (available on YouTube) have a number of interesting reports related to North Korea

Diversity in the United States Film Series
This came about because I am studying in Japan and I feel like many Japanese people are not familiar with race relations in general.  If you look at laws relating to visas and citizenship you can get a pretty good idea how welcoming said country is to immigrants or foreigners.  For example, South Korea requires for the visa to get HIV tested.  Anyway, I am tutoring some people in English and I gave some recommendations for movies where this is a major theme.  I think it is an entertaining but still though provoking way to introduce the issue to people.  I wanted to include a number of things because diversity does not just related to race.  Therefore, some of these issues will be more familiar than others for people outside the United States.  I haven't thought of a list of movies dealing with economic class.  (One that I can think of is The Pursuit of Happyness(2006).)   I also did not come up with a particular order to watch the films in.