The Interview and Cynicism

[owlmoose]

If you've been following all this business with The Interview, it sounds like Sony has "relented" and will be releasing the film on Christmas Day after all, in limited release.

I don't doubt that the hacking and the threats were real. I do doubt that the government of North Korea has the resources to make such a threat credible, certainly not in the United States with everyone on alert. And the cynical side of me has to wonder whether Sony always intended to release the film anyway, but played up the threats and free speech angles to line up audience for a film that they were afraid was going to tank.

Just a sneaking suspicion. (I wasn't going to see it anyway, I am pretty much the opposite of a Seth Rogen fan.) I suppose we may never know either way.

Comments

[zen_monk]

It's pretty frustrating how it seemed all the news cycle on this story are playing up the scary North Korea image and trying to get people to rally behind this stinkpile of a bad idea movie out of "principle" when it's not like censorship and getting stories/news denied hasn't already happened here by our own people, both government and private communication businesses.

And what it does is that it pretty much reflects the movie's story, too: that of making this country super whack-a-doodle and extreme based on the leadership's choices and decisions while painting themselves the plucky everyman.

[lassarina]

It's like you read my mind.