Sony Hoodwinks America For Sake Of The Interview

Sony's went from villain to victim to national hero in the span of a few short weeks, but as more questions are being raised regarding the incident and the culprits, Sony may have provided us a big red herring in return for The Interviews success.

Sony Hoodwinks America for sake of The Interview

It had all the makings of a film itself. It seemed more fiction than fact, but nevertheless, we bought it, hook, line and sinker.

A pompous American Film studio desperate for a break after suffering devastating losses suddenly gets hacked! Movie stars and employees have their social security numbers stolen, the fake names they check into hotels with are revealed, over 1 million terabytes of data or taken hostage! Not at all to mention the leaking of some pretty vicious, racist and sexist email exchanges between studio heads. And apparently, all because Sony decided to make a raunchy, slapstick comedy that hypothesizes the graphic and violent assassination of the leader of a hostile country. Subsequently, said hackers threaten that should such a film be released, devastating consequences will be had.

This is the story of Sony Picture, their film titled "The Interview," a hacker group called Guardians of Peace and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

Of course, Sony Pictures pulled the film from it's intended release scheduled for Christmas Day as major theater chains distanced themselves from the controversy. Meanwhile, news spread like wildfire across the nation as gun-toting conservatives vowed to see the film come "Hell or high water" as it was now their patriotic duty! Sony Pictures themselves endured tremendous backlash with whining men-children claiming they would boycott the studio and return their Sony PlayStation systems and instead buy the X-Box gaming console if Sony lets the terrorists win.

And to to it all off, President Obama, in a time of race riots, unprecedented police brutality and violent protests, steps forward to chide Sony for not releasing The Interview, saying "We don't do censorship in America." The President of the United States promises to retaliate as the FBI formally accuses North Korea as the hacking culprits.

Of course, the North Korean government steps forward to say they don't know anything about the hacking incident and have nothing to do it, but calls the effort "Righteous" given the content of the film. Despite being implicated by the American FBI that said they had proof of North Korea's involvement- despite never manifesting it, North Korea maintained it's innocence and offered to partner with American investigators to do a joint inquiry into the matter.

The FBI refused to do so. Instead, the USA attempted to gain the support of China in the probe into North Korea, but China refused, citing lack of any evidence.

And suddenly, a day after the President's address, the internet in North Korea suffers mass outages that inhibit travel, business and communications for days.

So, of course, come Christmas Day, Sony does indeed release The Interview in select theaters and via the internet and to wild sales- over a Million dollars on the first day. The films stars, Seth Rogan and James Franco enthusiastically declare, "You're a good American if you see our film!"

Well, who doesn't want to be patriotic? Suddenly, The Interview, which likely would have flopped at the Box Office against powerhouse films like Peter Jackson's final installment of The Hobbit, the long awaited sequel to the hit Night at The Museum, and the much-hyped adaptation of the classic play "Into The Woods" starring Meryl Streep. Surely, the buffoon comedy would have struggled against the competition. But, not with this kind of priceless PR.

Unfortunately, the carefully constructed ploy to push The Interview to the top of every movie-goers list (If they care about America!) is unraveling as journalists and investigators reveal that hey, North Korea wasn't behind the hacking on Sony Pictures at all. Woops.

Now, not only have we made a film that mocks the notoriously vain North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, but we've gone ahead and taken away their internet access just to demonstrate our power. All this while Sony rakes in the dough.

This begs the question; Was North Korea Sony's fall guy? Their Red Herring? Certainly after suffering an attack by hackers and having your awful emails hit the news, they have to create a distraction, right? Who could support a studio that mocks black people, women and the stars of their very own pictures. Angelina Jolie is "A minimally talented spoiled brat!" Amy Pascal, Sony head, calls says of Adam Sandler; "Adam is an asshile [sic]..." and stars like Denzel Washington shouldn't be cast in films they have higher hopes for overseas because "The world is racist." Also revealed? Heavy hitting female stars get paid a fraction of what their male counterparts pull. No shocker there.

Sony could have been dealt a massive blow to their reputation due to these email leaks, and what better way to turn yourself from villain to victim than to feign an attack from a notoriously evil, universally hated leader of a hostile country? Suddenly, everyone forgets you're a bunch of entitled jerk-off and now you're just a poor, pitiful and oppressed Artist fighting for Freedom of Speech. Fighting against terrorism! Now, you have the American people behind you- and the very leader of the Free World! Thank you, Mr. President!

"All Patriots will see The Interview!"

And that, my friends, is what we call propaganda; information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

So, while Kim Jong-un wonders why his modem lights are flashing and President Obama sips tea while relations between the Police and the Citizens are at an all time unrest, Sony is watching the money roll in.

Happy ending? Not if you're smart. You should be pissed. Greed, corruption and public manipulation have played a heavy role in this entire outfit. Perhaps this all might have made more sense if hackers had, for example, attacked the Pentagon or Homeland Security. That didn't happen. These skilled button-mashers hacked a movie studio. A crime? Absolutely. A means to frame and provoke an aggressive foreign dictator who has been falsely accused so a bad movie succeeds? No. Now, we gone to far. To the rest of the world we simply look ridiculous. Was it all manufactured to protect the assets of Sony after hackers revealed their Studio heads were smack-talking bobble-heads completely lacking a moral compass? How about leveraging the scandal to boost visibility of a terrible film that reviewers have called "A sloppy farce," "Disappointing," and "Much less compelling than the events it inspired..."

But who cares, because most Americans believed it was no longer just another bro-mance movie, of which Rogan and Franco have built their careers on. This was a movie with a cause! This was us fighting the big, bad oppressor who wanted to censor us! We were going to use our movie-dollars to smack Kim Jong-un across his scowling face- while watching his head explode on screen.

Pulling back the iron curtain reveals most Americans suffer from a lemming mentality. They're told what to do, so they do it. They're told what to believe, so they believe it. They're easily played against circumstances like pawns on a chessboard and comply with unbridled, albeit ignorant, enthusiasm. This wasn't a war against oppression; This was a desperately orchestrated device to protect wealthy filmmakers in Hollywood from financial damage.

That is perhaps the most alarming revelation of all.