Coal in Sony's stocking

Wow did Sony Pictures step in a mess! Santa put worse than coal in their stockings for Christmas over the potential release of "The Interview" on Christmas day. Once again our young nation fails to discern the culture and puts together a movie that antagonizes a more ancient one.

Frankly, in our culture the movie was going to tank. Hollywood has not done satire well lately. The North Koreans could have let the film fail, then laughed at the stupid Americans for putting out such drivel. That's not how their culture works.

Attacking the guy at the top is treason. Hey, that sounds familiar. Trying to assassinate the leader of the country is a death sentence. We do life in prison. So why are folks so up in arms about North Korea's response? Because its all satire, we wouldn't really want to see your leader dead. You know, we were just kidding. Here's a definition of satire, "the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing,denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc."

Satires are often used to make political statements. Not many political statements in the trailers, just a bunch of cheap jokes and off color crap. From the trailers, which are supposed to be the scenes to get a viewer to pay for a ticket, The two Americans are buffoons and Kim Jung Un is as decadent as where the two Americans are coming from. The only message from the trailer is that we are really not that much different from Kim and that Americans like to make power plays. 

I will say that North Korea's response was targeted and designed to communicate their dislike for attacking their supreme leader, even through satire. They exposed the guts of a Hollywood studio and revealed the mess seething under the surface. From jokes about our own president to disrespect of their own elite, Sony Studios looks terribly close to the decadent world that Seth Rogen and James Franco portray. Maybe this movie was not so much about North Korea as it was Hollywood.

So here's the question: is attacking Sony Pictures the same as attacking America?