I love history, so much so that I read historical fiction for fun and throughout history there has been no shortage of fratricide, from Cain and Abel to Romulus and Remus, or most recently on TV in Games of Thrones and I always thought that the need to kill one’s kin over power only belonged in history books or on our screens but apparently that isn’t the case and a brother is still threatened by their half brothers for the right and power to rule over a country. See? Straight right out of a TV or a movie right? Unfortunately, I’m not writing about a series, a book or a movie, I’m writing about a documentary on the assassination of Kim-Jong-Nam, the half brother of North Korea’s supreme leader Kim-Jong-Un.
Incidentally, the whole Cain and Abel and Romulus and Remus is also actually mentioned in the documentary.
February 13, 2017 in the middle of the busy airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia a lone man walks in the busy airport and looks up at his flight, as seen on CCTV footage, two women approach him one after the other, covering his face with their hands, they walk away and within the next hour, the man is dead.
That man is Kim-Jong-Nam, who from 1994-2001 was considered heir apparent to the throne of North Korea, he however fell out of favor from the family, he was exiled from North Korea in 2003, becoming a critic of their family’s regime. Despite all of this, he was still considered as a threat by his younger half brother Kim-Jong-Un.
The substance which was placed on Kim-Jong-Nam’s face? VX Nerve agent, the most toxic substance As King-Jong-Nam was dying four North Korean agents who witnessed the killing, were able to go through the airport and fly back to Pyongyang without incident. The two women seen on CCTV wiping their hands on Kim-Jong-Nam’s face are arrested and if found guilty will be sentenced to death. They share an incredibly shocking story.
A gripping documentary that also serves as a harrowing reminder, a blatant display of power and cruelty, the film depicts a diplomatic nightmare among countries, it portrays innocent lives at stake, the lengths as to how other people will take advantage of the innocent and naïve, without regard for their life will make your stomach turn. A bold ‘yeah I did that’ to the international community, ‘Assassins’ confirms the workings of the ambitious and the powerful, that beyond our mundane everyday lives there really are power-hungry leaders, cunning agents and that there are unwitting pawns, desperate enough to hope for a better future and that in this world, there is a brutality that knows no limit.
You can watch the film starting tomorrow (January 29) via the Cinema ’76 Home website Cinema ’76 @Home sign up here: https://cinema76fs.eventive.org click on these links to get your tickets!
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