Alison, "The Interview"

We all know how controversial the film was and how much media attention it got. It was on the news almost every day and was making a lot of waves on other outlets of social media. I recently watched the film and I have to say that I am not impressed. I have seen a lot of films with Seth Rogen and James Franco before and they have been really funny, but The Interview wasn’t at all. I was pretty bored throughout the movie. The beginning was very slow and the entire film could have been a lot shorter.

Maybe if they cut the movie shorter and made it straight to the point it would have flowed better as a film in a whole, but overall it was garbage. I think the main point of the movie was just to get attention from the audience and get attention from the movie. They wanted to make a joke of a movie just to poke fun at the media who make such a big deal about films. In my opinion, all of the fuss surrounding The Interview was all a part of a plan to see if Americans are really that gullible so as to be easily influenced by the media. Matt Rozsa makes a lot of good points about the film. At one point he says, “At its core, The Interview has a remarkably insightful thesis about human nature and politics—namely, that people respond more to theatricality, sensationalism, and emotional appeals than they do to facts and reason.” All the film does is make a lot of bad jokes and uses a lot of toilet humor. I mean this is expected for Rogen and Franco, but it does not make the movie any better in my opinion.

There are a lot of points the film does try to make. In one scene Skylark (Franco) gives false journalistic advice, which feeds more into the notion that the film plays on media and society in general. Further into the film Skylark and Kim Jong-Un become friends. Another interesting point Rozsa makes is that “The Interview evolves into an exchange of facts: Skylark mentions that 200,000 North Koreans are imprisoned in concentration camps, that 16,000,000 are starving, that the country spends $800 million on nuclear weapons, while Randall Park’s Kim Jong-un rebuts—not inaccurately—that America has imposed crippling economic sanctions on his country and has more incarcerated people per capita.”  I think it is a good because it attempts to give a lesson in politics. I agree with Rozsa that all Kim Jong-Un wants is to have and maintain power for his ego. I couldn’t agree more with him.

Whatever critics or the general public might have to say about the film, the fact is that it has made history and will surely be talked about for years to come. In my opinion, the film was not intended to be good, but was solely made to get a lot of attention from the media and of everyone else around the world. The film was proof that here in America we have something called the First Amendment, and anyone can make a movie, whatever his or her intentions may be.