{"id":2036656,"date":"2025-09-20T08:47:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T08:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2036656"},"modified":"2025-09-20T08:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T08:47:28","slug":"good-news-review-a-sharp-political-farce-from-the-director-of-kill-boksoon-follows-an-unplanned-detour-from-tokyo-to-pyongyang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/good-news-review-a-sharp-political-farce-from-the-director-of-kill-boksoon-follows-an-unplanned-detour-from-tokyo-to-pyongyang\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Good News\u2019 Review: A Sharp Political Farce From the Director of \u2018Kill Boksoon\u2019 Follows an Unplanned Detour From Tokyo to Pyongyang"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Terrorism is not exactly a natural fit for screen comedy. Defiantly going where few have gone before \u2014 one rare prior example being the bumbling-jihadist satire \u201cFour Lions<\/a>\u201d 15 years ago \u2014 \u201cGood News\u201d ekes a surprising degree of variably droll and raucous humor from its spin on a real-life hijacking that threw the governments of Japan<\/a>, the U.S. and both Koreas into crisis mode over half a century ago. The latest from South Korean director Byun Sung-hyun<\/a> (of the more pokerfaced crime thrillers \u201cKill Boksoon<\/a>\u201d and \u201cThe Merciless<\/a>\u201d) is an impressively ambitious, twisty construct that errs only in stretching out a bit longer than the tricky tonal balance can sustain. After well-received festival bows in Toronto and Busan, it launches worldwide on Netflix<\/a> Oct. 17.<\/p>\n

Squirrelly opening text (\u201cInspired by real events. But all characters and events portrayed are fictional. What is the truth then?\u201d), plus an introductory mix of archival and staged footage,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Terrorism is not exactly a natural fit for screen comedy. Defiantly going where few have gone before \u2014 one rare prior example being the bumbling-jihadist satire \u201cFour Lions\u201d 15 years ago \u2014 \u201cGood News\u201d ekes a surprising degree of variably droll and raucous humor from its spin on a real-life hijacking that threw the governments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2036657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2036656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Good-News-Review-A-Sharp-Political-Farce-From-the-Director.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2036657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}