{"id":912,"date":"2012-11-21T20:57:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T18:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/?p=912"},"modified":"2014-08-06T21:05:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T19:05:22","slug":"the-defector-escape-from-north-korea-ann-shin-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/the-defector-escape-from-north-korea-ann-shin-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Defector: Escape From North Korea (Ann Shin, 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-16 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" 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data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/defector.jpg?fit=536%2C344&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"536,344\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"defector\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/defector.jpg?fit=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/defector.jpg?fit=536%2C344&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-913\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/defector.jpg?resize=536%2C344\" alt=\"defector\" width=\"536\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/defector.jpg?w=536&amp;ssl=1 536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/defector.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>De ondertitel van <a title=\"The Defector\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedefectormovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Defector<\/a>\u00a0is lichtelijk misleidend. De Canadese documentaire, die zijn wereldpremi\u00e8re beleefde tijdens het <a title=\"IDFA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.idfa.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">IDFA<\/a>, gaat helemaal niet over een ontsnapping uit Noord-Korea. De vluchtelingen zijn de communistische dictatuur allang ontvlucht.<!--more--> Documentairemaakster Ann Shin ontmoet haar landgenoten in China. Ze verblijven daar illegaal en hebben met een zekere Dragon afspraken gemaakt over een vluchtpoging van China naar Zuid-Korea, via een drieduizend kilometer tellende omweg door Laos en Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>De tragiek van de vluchtelingen is onmiskenbaar, want ze laten familie en bezittingen achter voor een risicovolle tocht. Om te voorkomen dat ze herkenbaar in beeld komen, blijven de vluchtelingen en hun helpers verborgen achter een in postproductie aangebrachte waas. Het nadeel van deze technische ingreep is, dat bij sc\u00e8nes met veel mensen vrijwel het volledige beeld extreem troebel blijft.<\/p>\n<p>De tocht blijkt uiteindelijk minder enerverend dan de soundtrack probeert te suggereren. Het ergst is de muziek tijdens de paar archiefbeelden uit Noord-Korea. De suggestieve horrorsoundtrack past meer bij een communistische propagandafilm dan bij een ge\u00ebngageerde documentaire uit verlicht Canada.<\/p>\n<p><em>5\/10<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De ondertitel van The Defector\u00a0is lichtelijk misleidend. De Canadese documentaire, die zijn wereldpremi\u00e8re beleefde tijdens het IDFA, gaat helemaal niet over een ontsnapping uit Noord-Korea. De vluchtelingen zijn de communistische dictatuur allang ontvlucht.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[398,32,399],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6tm6j-eI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gertverbeek.com\/gertverbeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}