{"id":2093565,"date":"2025-10-15T18:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2093565"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:34:20","slug":"good-news-review-byun-sung-hyuns-netflix-comedy-gives-burn-after-reading-treatment-to-wild-true-story-of-japans-strangest-hijacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/good-news-review-byun-sung-hyuns-netflix-comedy-gives-burn-after-reading-treatment-to-wild-true-story-of-japans-strangest-hijacking\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Good News\u2019 Review: Byun Sung-hyun\u2019s Netflix Comedy Gives \u2018Burn After Reading\u2019 Treatment to Wild True Story of Japan\u2019s Strangest Hijacking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Karl Marx<\/a> himself may have written that \u201chistory repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.\u201d Still, not even the most dedicated members of Japan<\/a>\u2019s Red Army Faction \u2014 a militant, \u201cCommunist Manifesto\u201d-carrying group most famous for hijacking a Jal flight in the spring of 1970 \u2014 could have imagined their signature action would eventually be restaged as a slick and sprawling Netflix<\/a> comedy combining the smirking political satire of \u201cBurn After Reading<\/a>\u201d with the cold-blooded visual dynamism of a Park Chan-wook<\/a> film.<\/p>\n

Sure, the Yodogo Hijacking Incident wasn\u2019t quite a tragedy, and \u201cGood News\u201d is just a bit too grounded to feel like a true farce, but the disconnect between the severity of what happened and the blitheness with which Korean director Byun Sung-hyun<\/a> (\u201cThe Merciless<\/a>\u201d) has re-imagined it is striking enough to affirm Marx<\/a>\u2019s point. I have to imagine that the hijackers would\u2019ve been happy about…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Karl Marx himself may have written that \u201chistory repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.\u201d Still, not even the most dedicated members of Japan\u2019s Red Army Faction \u2014 a militant, \u201cCommunist Manifesto\u201d-carrying group most famous for hijacking a Jal flight in the spring of 1970 \u2014 could have imagined their signature action would eventually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2093566,"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-2093565","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\/10\/\u2018Good-News-Review-Byun-Sung-hyuns-Netflix-Comedy-Gives-\u2018Burn-After.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093565","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=2093565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093567,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093565\/revisions\/2093567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2093566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}