How is public opinion created and spread? movie <댓글부대>reflects the reality of an online war of words that is completed with a clear purpose and slander, rather than a naturally formed collective opinion. Im Sang-jin (Son Seok-gu), a social affairs reporter with an eye for intuitively identifying problems but a bit vain, ends up reporting exclusively on the revelations of a small and medium-sized company while investigating hidden corruption behind large corporations. It was an issue that needed widespread public attention, but suddenly a celebrity drug scandal broke out and everything became useless. Reports of accusations are forgotten and get the stigma of being misreported, and reporters who have the courage to make extreme choices due to the injustice. Everything happened in an instant. Time passes faster and more hastily online than time passes in the real world. At a time when everything has gone to waste and only despair and futility remain, a young man approaches Sangjin and hands over information about Team Aleph to Sangjin. This team, consisting of Jjingppeu King (Kim Seong-cheol), Chattakkat (Kim Dong-hwi), and Fabtak (Hong Kyung), manipulates and transforms the online debates with thorough calculation.
<댓글부대>realistically depicts what those who have watched the online public opinion battle have doubted and imagined at least once. In this process, the film does not strive to clearly divide good and evil or distinguish between justice and injustice, but rather helps the audience make their own moral judgment. Rather than being lukewarm in its attitude, the film provides an opportunity to properly look back on the arguments in the cyber world by exposing the cracks between generations, genders, regions, and classes. The three members of Team ALEEP maintain dramatic immersion flexibly by changing the mood whenever the weight of the play becomes heavy. <댓글부대>conveys the feeling that roles were distributed according to the talents and strengths of each actor. The way the various opinions pouring in on the Internet are presented in a way that suits the user experience is also noteworthy. The information that the movie has to provide is used as visual information that is close and familiar to everyday life.
<성실한 나라의 앨리스>Director Ahn Kuk-jin’s power in transforming social issues into a poignant and cool-headed black comedy is clearly revealed. It is based on the novel of the same name by novelist Jang Kang-myeong.
