When the teenage girls were watching the bootleg DVD....and the camera-man pans up to show the 2 portraits of the Kim's that are in every room.
That's normal (for there). Basically every room has to have their portraits in it or you're considered disloyal.
So guys what was the weirdest part for you?
I kinda love the crap out of watching every documentary about North Korea that I can get my hands on so a lot of this was pretty familiar to me. That said, the women standing up to the soldiers was pretty damned extraordinary. Especially over something as seemingly trivial about whether a woman can wear pants or not. The soldiers just sort of simultaneously talking crap and taking their dissent instead of immediately beating the crap out of them/hauling them off was also pretty surprising.
I was also a little surprised that they didn't show any scenes of public executions as you sometimes saw footage of those being smuggled out under Kim Jong Il and making its way to Japanese/South Korean news stations. Is it because that sort of thing is considered too gruesome for primetime tv or because Kim Jong Un is trying to be less brutal in public and is shifting to an almost exclusive use of labor camps like Yodok for the purpose of purging political dissidents?
