Motokata
18-11-2008, 22:10
This is MBC-The Motokatan Broadcasting Corporation
"Good evening, I'm Yuuko Ichihara, the top story is this weeks Box Office Smash Children of Light has earned well over 1.7 million Dinars in it's opening, the heart renching tale of two young sister orphaned by warfare and struggling to survive. So why is this film being named the most controversial film of the year, and prompting demands of an Congressional Investigation? The answer according to Representative Anno is that the movie is anti-Capitalism and is infact pro-Communism. "
Anno: "The movie protrayes the sisters suffering as attributes of Corporations."
Ichiarah: "Known for pushing for a Congressional Committee to probe and investigate Un-Motokatan Activities, Representative Anno feels the film has several redflags to indicate that it's Communist Film, both on and off the screen.
Anno: "First and foremost, the wagers of war are corporations both of which exist in Motokata."
The film names Zebexus Oil, Karin Pharmaceuticals and WebSter as profiteeers of the war. Response from Filmmaker Koji Sawai is this:
Sawai: "I prefer to use real names over cheesy fake names, it's something I've always done."
The Film doesn't name the country in question for it's setting, rather it follows the life of the two country girls who try to stay alive, always being turned away by every business, and even any light forms of social welfare in the war-ravaged country. While the names of the companies might be real, the CEO's and profiteers are fictional and almost faceless. The film focus mostly on the two sisters, Sayuri and Saku. It also depects however Sayuri working in abysmal slave like conditions under every business she works for to support and feed her little sister. Something every company named in the film has denied. Each company responded the same: "We treat our employees very well, our conditions are always safe and up to regulatory standards.
Sawai: "I'm not going to say these specific companies do such things, but it's a well known fact business in and out of Motokata have practiced such things."
Such as Skyway Shoes, which was shutdown to do unhealthy working conditions, last year. But are these ficitonal elements enough to accuse the filmmaker of communism? Or is there more.
Anno: "Once the girls leave they enter a Communist/Socialist Territory and are magically treated better, while they always suffer under the Capitalist country."
Swai: "The film ends at that point, there is no way he can think their future is going to be any better. The girls simply leave the war torn country and enter one that isn't war torn, to flee from their slave holders."
Anno claims, early drafts of the script show such scenes like that. And that Sawai produced with money from the Communist Association of Motokata. Sawai refuses to say if that is true or not.
Sawai: "My investors are private, I get money from working hard and other sources, but I won't reveal them."
Anno: "Obviously suspicious. Only a Commie would refuse to tell that he received help from the CAM Group."
Once Anno's Committee is Approved by the G8 he promises to bring full attention to all Communist Activities.
Anno: "Anyone who promotes the ideals of the Communist Regime is not fit to be in this country."
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(back in newsroom)
Ichiara: Despite the rumors of an investigation swilling around the film, audiences are still flocking to the film shows are sold out nationwide most are calling it a powerful and moving human drama. For MBC, I'm Yuuko Ichiara, good night."
(ooc: some of you may get where I'm going at, my nation's version of McCarthyism, this is a precursor to what I may eventually do)
"Good evening, I'm Yuuko Ichihara, the top story is this weeks Box Office Smash Children of Light has earned well over 1.7 million Dinars in it's opening, the heart renching tale of two young sister orphaned by warfare and struggling to survive. So why is this film being named the most controversial film of the year, and prompting demands of an Congressional Investigation? The answer according to Representative Anno is that the movie is anti-Capitalism and is infact pro-Communism. "
Anno: "The movie protrayes the sisters suffering as attributes of Corporations."
Ichiarah: "Known for pushing for a Congressional Committee to probe and investigate Un-Motokatan Activities, Representative Anno feels the film has several redflags to indicate that it's Communist Film, both on and off the screen.
Anno: "First and foremost, the wagers of war are corporations both of which exist in Motokata."
The film names Zebexus Oil, Karin Pharmaceuticals and WebSter as profiteeers of the war. Response from Filmmaker Koji Sawai is this:
Sawai: "I prefer to use real names over cheesy fake names, it's something I've always done."
The Film doesn't name the country in question for it's setting, rather it follows the life of the two country girls who try to stay alive, always being turned away by every business, and even any light forms of social welfare in the war-ravaged country. While the names of the companies might be real, the CEO's and profiteers are fictional and almost faceless. The film focus mostly on the two sisters, Sayuri and Saku. It also depects however Sayuri working in abysmal slave like conditions under every business she works for to support and feed her little sister. Something every company named in the film has denied. Each company responded the same: "We treat our employees very well, our conditions are always safe and up to regulatory standards.
Sawai: "I'm not going to say these specific companies do such things, but it's a well known fact business in and out of Motokata have practiced such things."
Such as Skyway Shoes, which was shutdown to do unhealthy working conditions, last year. But are these ficitonal elements enough to accuse the filmmaker of communism? Or is there more.
Anno: "Once the girls leave they enter a Communist/Socialist Territory and are magically treated better, while they always suffer under the Capitalist country."
Swai: "The film ends at that point, there is no way he can think their future is going to be any better. The girls simply leave the war torn country and enter one that isn't war torn, to flee from their slave holders."
Anno claims, early drafts of the script show such scenes like that. And that Sawai produced with money from the Communist Association of Motokata. Sawai refuses to say if that is true or not.
Sawai: "My investors are private, I get money from working hard and other sources, but I won't reveal them."
Anno: "Obviously suspicious. Only a Commie would refuse to tell that he received help from the CAM Group."
Once Anno's Committee is Approved by the G8 he promises to bring full attention to all Communist Activities.
Anno: "Anyone who promotes the ideals of the Communist Regime is not fit to be in this country."
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(back in newsroom)
Ichiara: Despite the rumors of an investigation swilling around the film, audiences are still flocking to the film shows are sold out nationwide most are calling it a powerful and moving human drama. For MBC, I'm Yuuko Ichiara, good night."
(ooc: some of you may get where I'm going at, my nation's version of McCarthyism, this is a precursor to what I may eventually do)