Is this legit or just acting?

[ProxyAmenRa]

North Koreans weeping hysterically over the death of Kim Jong-il - YouTube

 

[downsowf]

Definitely acting. I don't see any tears, mostly people making a bunch of noise. I'm guessing a lot of people were paid to go out there and do that.

 

[blarg]

This is crap. They even get in nice and straight lines while "weeping"...

Video editing is overused.

 

[shoeless]

north korea is a fucked up place. whether it's acting or real, it's all for the wrong reasons.

 

[Words]

I'd say some of it is legit. "You can't measure the power nor the arbitrariness of ideology(ego)."

 

[crippli]

I reckon it's acting. Excessive public legit weeping is a bit too much for me to comprehend. No matter if you won the world series, or your leader has fallen. Truly messed up I would assume one seeks solitude.

 

[nanook]

i think its acting. of course when you act, you access real emotions. there is allways something to cry about. not only for the individual but for the group too. you can easily access collective pain, when everyone around you does. in that sense group emotion is real. but it's not about a guy's death. or if it is, for some, then there is no way we could tell the difference by physically looking at them. i have been in various rituals like that. not exactly like that. i have been in laughing rituals too. such laughing is real for sure. no one needs a reason for laughing or crying, other than being human. any reason that enters your mind during the ritual might as well be after-the-fact fabulation. "i am crying because ... let's see ... yeah i am probably sad about this guy's death. why not. he was a human being somehow."

 

[Felan]

In China it is common to hire "mourners". I suspect that practice is also common in North Korea. So I see this as intrinsic to the culture rather than an attempt at deception.

 

[C.J_Finn]

I'm not sure if it's fake or not. Kim Jong Il is pretty much viewed as a god by the people in north Korea, so I'm sure there would be a lot of people that are emotionally distressed, but it also looks quite fake.

I did read in one of the comments on the north Korean news report of his death that the woman giving the report used to take drama classes and is quite good at faking those emotions. So it's possible that quite a few of the mourners were acting as well.

 

[RaBind]

I'm guessing a lot of people were paid to go out there and do that.

I don't think people in north Korea get paid to do anything. Maybe they did it so their families don't get shot or tortured.

I am just as in the dark, on whether it is real or fake, as everyone else is. There are documentaries on North Korea through and the things they show are quite shocking. Anyone would believe something they have been taught to them since birth, also there isn't any information that isn't propagandaised available to them so its the only thing they know.

Not pointing at any followers of any religion, but if some people blindly believe everything that is written in a book or taught to them by a fellow human being when they have access to many other logical explanations, I don't think we should disccard the possibility of the video being real.

I wanted to add a quote by Einstein but I don't think it's appropriate.

 

[Abraxas]

Social influence?

 

[Jah]

yes.

(without even watching the movie.)

These people are seriously brain-washed.
Their reality is a life in service of the dear leader, and his dead father, and his son.


It's no mystery here.


Also, note that these people live in a different world than we.
If you understand Danish and/or spastic, this movie might help:
The Red Chapel - trailer - YouTube

Try to find it, very worth-while

Basic summary; Danish film-maker, with his two companions (originally Korean) one of which is retarded (spastic, he calls himself) which makes his speech very difficult to translate (therefore also difficult to censure away. Which was done every night. All film collected and controlled for anti-regime material.)
Under the guise of being a theater troupe, and a communistic one at that, they gain entrance to the state of North Korea, and get to travel around, experience it.

It's chilling, and some of the commentaries made by Jacob (the Spastic) during the documentary, allow you some clue to the mood/tension that is all around in that state.

wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_Røde_Kapel