 In the treatise, Kim Jong-il seeks to apply the principles of the North Korean Juche ideology to questions of film, literature and art. According to Kim, "revolutionizing" cinema is a means of revolutionizing the whole of art and literature and exposing society to the Workers'Party's "monolithic ideology" and Juche. Building upon socialist realist literary theory and Kim Il-sung's thought, Kim Jong-il constructs what has been described as a "Juche realism". A key aim of Kim is to employ heroic film fiction to transform man into a socialist man: "Juche-type man".
