Jim Finn, follows a South Korean video artist in North Korea who hopes to revitalize Juche cinema, somewhat inspired by a true story of a South Korean filmmaker kidnapped in the 70s to make the North Korean film industry better. This experimental satire that examines what happens when a South Korean filmmaker sojourns into communist North Korea to breathe new life into that country's flagging, propaganda-driven movie industry. Believing that cinema can prop up North Korea's Juche Idea of self-reliance, mad dictator Kim Jong-Il pulls out all the stops to help the young émigré produce appropriate films.
The Juche Idea has generally received positive reviews.
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The Juche Idea was released in 2008 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 8 reviews, giving The Juche Idea (2008) an average rating of 64%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 75%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 65%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Juche Idea than critics were.
With a score of 64%, The Juche Idea is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2008, which stands at 56%.
Other movies from 2008 with similar scores include films like Yes Man, Mamma Mia! and The Spiderwick Chronicles.
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