When Sony Pictures announced just a week before The Interview was scheduled to be released that it was pulling the movie, half of me let out a sigh of relief while the other half of me rebelled at this open violation of free speech.
Of course, I understood the reasoning; The Interview is about two tabloid journalists who manage to land “the interview of the century” with the Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. However, they are approached by the CIA to turn their interview into an assassination. The movie chronicles their failures and successes.
Now, anyone’s who read a single article on BBC about Kim would know that the fellow is a serious guy;