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'Bend It Like Beckham' Broadcasts on North Korean Television

JT Langley
01/03/2011
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North Korea has long been known as one of the most culturally secluded countries due to Kim Jong-Il's severing of ties with the outside world (most citizens don't even know men have walked on the moon), but now, according to Martin Uden, the British ambassador to South Korea, the 2002 British film Bend It Like Beckham will be the first ever Western-made film to be broadcast in North Korea (there's no North Korean ambassador that I could find, so I'm assuming Uden was the next best thing). Uden confirmed the airing of the film on his Twitter page, and thus, made public what should probably considered a monumental event in regards to the outside world's interaction with the the self-reliant Korean hereditary dictatorship.

Bend It Like Beckham, starring Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley, tells the tale of a rebellious Asian teenager bypassing the wishes of her Indian parents in order to play football (the soccer kind of football), and tackles issues involving religion, interracial relationships, and homosexuality. The film recieved positive reviews after its debut, but I'm still trying to figure out why it, out of every British film ever made, it was chosen to be broadcast. 

For broadcast (and probably censorship) purposes, the film, which originally runs at 112 minutes, was cut down to an hour for the airing, and was preceded by a message declaring that its broadcast was meant to honor the ten-year anniversary of Great Britain's diplomatic ties with North Korea. 

North Korean demi-god despot Kim Jong-Il has long been known as a film fanatic, having been said to have a movie collection of over 15,000 DVDs, and also directing his own propaganda films. Why he felt Bend It Like Beckham was best for his people, we'll probably never know, but I'm assuming it certainly had some kind of effect when it was aired. My best guess was that viewers were probably confused. 


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