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Sun Apr 23 07:57:43 EDT 2017
Slept from eleven-thirty to seven-thirty without waking.
Sunny today, with a high of sixty-nine.
Watched Under the Sun, a Russian documentary(?) about North Korea. Interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Sun_(2015_film)
> Mansky conceived the project as a film set in a country similar to the Soviet Union. He envisioned the film to be "a time machine" to the Soviet Union under Stalin, and means to better understand his country's history. Prior to the project, Mansky stated that he had not previously visited North Korea and "only knew what most of us knew". After visiting the country, Mansky felt that North Korea was "much more hard and cruel" than the Soviet Union. Mansky observed, "From the outside, it looks like the Soviet Union in the 1930s. But if you look deeper, there is a crucial difference. In the Soviet Union, we had culture - theatres, libraries, films. And the Soviet people were critical thinkers - they complained if there was something they didn’t like. If you compare that to North Korea - they don’t have any of those cultural memories. Everyone looks content, happy with the way things are. This is what I wanted to depict in the documentary."
> North Korean authorities objected to the film's screening after discovering that the film crew had smuggled unapproved footage.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-under-the-sun-north-korea-doc-20160705-snap-story.html
> Films featuring children have long been an important North Korean propaganda vehicle, even more so since 2011 when young leader Kim Jong Un took power, says Tatiana Gabroussenko, a lecturer who studies North Korean film at Korea University in Seoul. “North Korea is a state that infantilizes its people, and the state uses child characters to show how people need guidance from the leaders,” Gabroussenko said.
Goals:
- Continue work on IPv6 notes
Done.
- Play with D&D saltbox
No.
Vacuumed, washed dishes, watered plants, bought gas.
Fifteen minute walk in the evening.
Breakfast: coffee, carrots
Lunch: macaroni
Dinner: Philly cheesesteak from Jersey Mike's
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