Yesterday and today it was found out that North Korea may have been the ones behind the Sony hack thanks to their cyber terrorist unit. Now I'm not going to give a straight up political opinion other than the fact it's kind of scary. The terrorist gave a threat that unless the movie "The Interview" whose plot revolves around the assassination of Kim Jong-Un was cancelled something really bad would happen to the theaters and anyone in the vicinity of the theaters showing it. People got very vocal about it myself included.
I didn't talk about it right away because I had just heard it and got really passionate about it without thinking about it objectively and the thing is I needed to think about this situation objectively as to not be unfair and at the very least logical to both sides and it would have been incoherent sentences of me bitching. This is overall a sucky situation, it's a double edge sword neither choice comes out with the best solution and either way were hurt from both sides. The logical side and the more passionate side.
On one hand yeah I can see why they did it. This is the first time something like this has ever happened with people threatening to do something terrible all because a movie that was kind of controversial was shown. It's only been two years since the Aurora shootings where theaters were blamed heavily for something nobody saw coming and it would have been way worse if something did actually happen and theaters knew about it but let it happen anyone. At the end of the day people's lives are being threatened all over a movie which from what I hear from the eleven critics who've seen it, it's not even that good. Really if you were in that situation what decision would you make, it's a hard choice and they ultimately went with the one they saw as best in a pretty dark situation that not many people experience and I can't fault them for that.
On the other hand it sucks completely because it basically shows terrorist can just make one threat and we will bow down in a moment, it gives credence for other hackers to try and pull stuff like this, it basically dampens creative expression when still a lot of people frown upon it and the effect this will have on Hollywood going forward will be horrible. Don't believe me about that last one, Badass Digest reported the new Steve Carrell movie directed by Gore Verbinski was cancelled because it was set in North Korea, and you know Hollywood would be more afraid to do more politically charged film be it a comedy or serious drama. And don't give me that if it was Obama we would be pissed, yeah some people would be mad but when we have stuff like House of Cards and Zero Dark Thirty which shows American politics in sometimes the worst of light (and the fact Obama has the worst approval rating of any president ever.) It makes me mad a movie that was just trying to do something daring was shut down completely and was punished for it. Not to mention Sony which while my least favorite studio ever I feel bad for because a lot of those emails are private and a lot of people are losing jobs over it and a company that was not doing so hot before is on the verge of shutting down completely.
Either way you look at this, this situation sucks and while I am more on the whole this sucks side of the argument I can't ignore the fact I do understand why they did pull it. This is a grey situation in every sense of the word and it's only just beginning.
That was depressing, see you tomorrow for my Hobbit battle of the five (well three) armies review.
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