Public curiosity in North Korea, and media reportage on the world's most insular and secretive state has by no means been increased. But all of us who dwell outdoors the nation stay solely indifferent from atypical North Koreans, their experiences, their lives, their ideas and emotions. We stay fixated on the nation's public face, the photo-ops and choreographed parades of the Kim dynasty, however utterly blind to what it's like to really dwell beneath their dictatorship, and what perceptions on the bottom are. In My Manner in Pyongyang, the filmmakers do all they'll to see beneath the veil of state secrecy and management, and attempt to perceive North Korea because it actually is.
