The Art of Cinema

Now I never thought I would have anything in common with Kim Jong Il, the past dictator of North Korea.
But alas, I do. That similarity happens to be the love for Cinema.
With owning over 20,000 movie titles, his favorites were: Elizabeth Taylor, Godzilla, and Friday the 13th's Jason.

In 1978, on Kim's orders, South Korean film director Shin Sang-Ok and his actress wife Choi Eun-hee were kidnapped in order to build a North Korean film industry.There was no fucking around with Kim. He loved his cinema. And hopefully that is the only similarity that the crazy dictator and I will ever share.


Can we really remember the first movie we ever watched?
No. My mom doesn't either.
But I assume it was a Disney movie. Those were the first I watched anyways.
The Disney franchise grew with us along with popular titles:
Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, & many others.
These movies grew with us, and its a movie franchise that will probably be passed down to our kids.
Think about it - almost all children watch the same movies that we watched as children.
(Aside from those under strict religious teaching, or households with no TVs in other parts of the world)
 Its something so much bigger than a VHS tape you pop into the VCR and quickly fast forward the cheesy 90s advertisements.


Its also apart of growing up - we watch certain movies that our parents watched when we reach a certain age. I remember being 12 and allowed to watch "The Shining" - reaching a certain milestone in life and being able to watch other movies that are carried along. Its much bigger than just a movie - its apart of our culture and our lives.

Kim Jong Il was so passionate about the art to kidnap two citizens of South Korea out of his love for it.
Stunt people risk their lives for it, people spend years perfecting the directing and filming and editing for it.
I could go on forever about cinema but its 4 in the morning and I should really stop now.