(Park Kkot’s Movie Garden) Do you believe in YouTubers? The Trap of ‘Like, That, Say’

※ Caution: Contains the main contents of the movie ‘Like, That, Goo’.

“Who was your favorite movie star during the interview?”

This is a question I am often asked after working as a film journalist. It’s a question that I struggle with every time I hear it, and it’s a question that most of the time I don’t say. Even if you had a conversation with the actor face-to-face, it would be an hour or two at most. It would not be a place to openly discuss your personal history, but rather a meeting where you exchanged questions and answers about the subject matter of the work, but the evaluation itself was like ‘He was like this’. because he is cautious

At such times, I often convey a few objective facts. For example, at the time of the opening of ‘Okja’, director Bong Joon-ho showed a compliant speech by clearly keeping the subject and predicate ‘as if writing a sentence’, and actor Yeom Jeong-ah brought an apology from his best friend, actor Moon Jeong-hee, to reporters at the time of promoting ‘Jang San-beom’. It’s a way to share and eat without being aggressive. Even if you say this much, listeners can imagine and gauge their appearance in their own way, and they are generally happy.

That’s why I’m often surprised when I watch YouTube. Even those who have met famous actors or celebrities face-to-face cannot easily understand secret rumors that are ‘shocked!’ or ‘true story!’ It is because there are too many cases in which Ryu insists on putting on his head, or describes someone’s discord in detail as if he witnessed it right next to him, and calls himself a judge. Posts that cause serious damage to the reputation of others without clear grounds end up being selected as recommended content on YouTube, quickly gaining hundreds of thousands of views. It all goes back to the profit of the person who uploaded the video.

‘Good. That. Goo’ is a black comedy movie starring the main character who cleverly took advantage of this disquieting social atmosphere to be released on the 12th. As the title of the movie borrowed the fixed comments of numerous YouTubers who shout ‘Like, Comment, Subscribe’, it is a work that can detect the attitude of the main character early on, ‘I will do anything to get you to pay attention to me’.

The story begins with a YouTuber (Oh Tae-kyung) who was once a famous child actor. Devoted to attracting attention as a “slave YouTuber” who claims to unconditionally solve the curiosity of his subscribers, he is asked to find out the story of a man who has been holding a silent protest in Gwanghwamun for several months. conduct an investigation

“Shock!”, “True story!” It turns out that the picket man is suffering from being caught up in an innocent sexual harassment case… The main character appears on his internet broadcast saying that he hired the picket guy’s sister and the lawyer for the case, and the subscribers who watched the game as if they were watching a horse race start to become overly immersed in the situation, saying ‘the truth must be revealed’. As hot public opinion on the Internet expands to social interest, they start to cover the entire story, even current affairs broadcasting programs.

If you are a reader who has watched some YouTube, you should expect a twist at this point. It’s all ‘fake’. It’s not just to get some attention, it’s a self-made play that was deliberately designed to cleverly promote a new actor that the entertainment run by the main character is trying to promote. Thanks to the subscribers (?) who actively use criticism and defense while getting caught up in false content that serves only the interests of a specific person, the protagonist catches both rabbits: hot interest and promotion of the agency’s actors.

have to ask So, what’s left for subscribers? As befits the black comedy genre, ‘Like, That, Gu’ is a work with many novel and interesting corners, but it’s hard to just laugh comfortably the moment you think of this question. It leaves a heavy aftertaste that is not clear because it sharply depicts not only vicious people who indiscriminately spread false information for self-interest, but also the ‘fantasy collaboration’ of those who accept it without criticism and even go wild as if they were enjoying sports.

At the end of the film, when the true identity of another current affairs YouTuber who was sharply sniping and criticizing the fake news spread by the main character is revealed, the audience will definitely let out a sound of ‘Huh’. Was the story of the YouTuber I believed in and enjoyed real? while consulting.