{"id":14527,"date":"2021-10-21T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14527"},"modified":"2021-10-21T16:54:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T20:54:17","slug":"the-mole-2020-mads-brugger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14527","title":{"rendered":"The Mole (2020, Mads Br\u00fcgger)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danish Ulrich watches <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13012\">The Red Chapel<\/a><\/em>, agrees with Mads that the movie didn&#8217;t find a smoking gun against N Korea, so Ulrich joins the Danish Korean Friendship Society (&#8220;a fairly depressing group of people&#8221;), befriends the Korean Friends global leader Alejandro (who was a guide for Mads group in <em>Red Chapel<\/em> and still holds a grudge), visits N Korea regularly as a mole for ten years, bringing in Mads, who hires spies to help.  They invent Mr. James, a rich international man of mystery, who would be open to making drug and weapons deals, and soon they&#8217;re being asked to transport bombs to Syria, and being sold a Ugandan island for an underground weapons factory (kicking all residents off the island is included in the cost).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/mole1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I watched <em>Red Chapel<\/em> in an airport, so it only seemed right that I watch this one in the same place.  It nicely unites <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13071\">the other<\/a> Mads movies: Africa, Korea, int&#8217;l crimes, Danish men on a mission.  Mole records every damn conversation and gets away with it.  Closing text says the UN is investigating, but whatcha gonna do.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/mole2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danish Ulrich watches The Red Chapel, agrees with Mads that the movie didn&#8217;t find a smoking gun against N Korea, so Ulrich joins the Danish Korean Friendship Society (&#8220;a fairly depressing group of people&#8221;), befriends the Korean Friends global leader Alejandro (who was a guide for Mads group in Red Chapel and still holds a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[42,1310,2539,2540],"class_list":["post-14527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-africa","tag-espionage","tag-mads-brugger","tag-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14564,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14527\/revisions\/14564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}