It's kind of interesting to know that in the country itself, it has three classes - the peasants, the workers, and the intellectuals. This documentary follows two girls (one belonging to the workers' class and the other - the intellectuals' class) being raised in different backgrounds in the capital of Pyongyang, and how they are preparing for their country's most spectacular and well-known event to the outside world - the Mass Games. Unless you know how to do something about it. Are you able to determine where you should be born? If you are born into a country which has a very different system of government which may deemed so-called 'evil' to the outside world, there is no way out. It's not that I want to condemn the western media, but then the world is just like that.
Speaking from someone who was once a History student, it's very saddening to at times for me to read of stories of how life is like in North Korea through the papers. I have to agree with my heavy heart, it's true. Just like before the start of the documentary which I saw on the Discovery Channel, it stated that North Korea is the least visited, least known, and the least understood nation in the world. And also with all that 'Korea wave' happening (in terms of its pop culture especially) and the media liberation in South Korea, she is slowly starting to present some of its darkest moments in its history onto the screen. Maybe because since some time back, there has been those news reports on the tearful reunions and meetings between the ordinary families of the two Koreas. It was like few years back, but at times it kept ringing in my head.
I only began to know a bit more about North Korea thanks to my school's past social studies and history classes, where at both times the Korean War was mentioned and being discussed.
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