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NEW YORK STATE (Of Mind): This week BRAD BALFOUR talks with a daring Korean director about his dazzling film of conflict, "Tae Guk Gi" "G21 Interviews: Je-gyu Kang" RECOMMENDED DAILY REQUIREMENT: DANIEL PATRICK WELCH believes that in post-election America "It's the Policies, Stupid" RADIO*ACTIVE: RAHEEM picks up the pen again to tell us what the "Head Niggah In Charge Sez" MY GLASS HOUSE: You don't have agree with what our Publisher has to say in his meta-blog creation but you have to admit he looks at the world as only a cosmopolitan can. ROD AMIS explains why our first post-election edition has the theme "Wolves." COMI NG ATTRACTIONS! BACK ISSUES? CLICK & PLAY! Issue 396: THIEVES IN THE TEMPLE Issue 397: EAGLES DARE Issue 398: THE INVISIBLE BORDER Issue 400: 400 BRICKS G21 TODAY! RECOMMENDED DAILY REQUIREMENT ARCHIVES. MEMOIRS OF THE INFORMATION AGE ARCHIVES |
BRAD BALFOUR WITH JE-GYU KANG:"Asian filmmakers have finally come into their own as movies such as "Hero" have established an international audience. With this continuing interest, Korean directors have started attracting attention both on the worldwide festival circuit and through global distribution. Recently, established director Je-gyu Kang has accomplished a major feat by making a serious, hard-hitting war film, "Tae Guk Gi," that details the experience of the Korean War through distinctly South Korean eyes. Two brothers are forced into service to defend South Korea when North Korea invades. This experience brings them both together and tears their family apart.
Despite some cloying moments, this feature details battle with the same realism and blunt reality that made "The Big Red One" and "Saving Private Ryan" classics of the war genre. This film became Korea's biggest seller ever and now enjoys international respect because it highlights a war often overlooked historically. Now that Korean cinema is enjoying an audience beyond its core, the film has made it to the United States and -- though its theatrical distribution was limited and, in some cases, far too short -- it is a film deserves to be seen by audiences, whether Korean or not. Your World's Magazine gives it our highest recommendation.
G21: How did the war affect you personally?
JE-GYU KANG: I was born long after the war was over so I can't say that the war affected me in any direct ways. However, growing up in Korea -- where the war tore us apart -- was indeed a unique experience because I grew up learning that North Koreans were our enemy. North Korea has a part of Korean history that we can't easily get to. I guess the effect was quite subtle that I couldn't really feel or remember much as the most of the people of my generation do...." READ MORE
DANIEL PATRICK WELCH STAYS POLITICAL ON ELECTION DAY AMERICA: " As Americans gather to excerise their god-given right to pick the leader of the Free World, that world huddles anxiously in the far-flung corners of the planet to see what comes next. This has all been posited as good news for John Kerry, who is poised today to take control of the massive house of cards left behind by one of the most criminal organizations since the Nixon White House.
But even if the Republicans manage to fall short in their racist and anti-democratic quest to steal enough votes to cling to power, a new president can't expect a free pass. Whoever takes the oath in January -- giving the current administration, by the way, another two months of Rump Parliament leeway to ruin everything even further -- whoever wins the Big Prize will inherit a free world so angry and fed up with US policies that no amount of finesse,charm or tweaking can force the genie back in the bottle. Score one for the people of the world. ... " READ MORE
ANOTHER RADIOACTIVE MOMENT: "I know a lot of folks around this country was listenin' to CNN, Fox News channel, NBC, CBS, and all their local newspapers. Not me. I was listening to what we Brothers used to jokingly call, "The Head Niggah in Charge"(HNIC.) That phrase could be taken as an insult or a compliment, depending on the circumstances. What my choice for HNIC said was that we would have to live through four more years of W.
In this here circumstance, I am referring to our Esteemed Editor. He has a history of both being in and reporting about politics over the last thirty years. So I figured, considering that he is also one of my Respected Elders, he might know what was really going down.
Well, we now all know that Rod was right. He called Kerry as the Loser two months before the election. Kerry lost. ... " READ MORE
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