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The Me Too movement spread throughout society following the revelations of sexual harassment in the cultural world in 2016.

The film industry is no exception, with numerous revelations leading to accusations, prosecution investigations, and arrests, with some suspects going into hiding, fleeing overseas, or even ending their lives by suicide.

As an artist, he is a shameless sexual harasser and rapist, so he should naturally pay the price, but there were also many victims of false accusations.

This is because, in an atmosphere where people are likely to be attacked just by anonymous revelations posted on SNS, whenever something is posted, they gather together as a group and criticize it regardless of the truth.

It was my daily routine to try it first and then not try again.

At this time, there were some people who would cause controversy by directly or indirectly associating actors or directors they disliked, and ‘Dewey’ was one of the aggro-mongers who caused chaos on SNS and movie communities.

What sets Dewey apart from other fringe seeds is that he is a celebrity who has been running a movie review site for over 20 years and is a social media influencer with hundreds of thousands of followers.

Although he was an internet celebrity, he had as many enemies as followers because he spoke so harshly and was prone to belittling and personally attacking people just because they had different opinions.

Under the pretext of the MeToo movement, they created many victims through controversies that were not fact-checked, and they also caused public outrage by hiding anonymously when there was no problem and consistently saying nothing.

Usually, these types of people who commit such a crime are later caught, or if the case is serious, they are prosecuted, but Dewey was so smart that he cleverly avoided responsibility by saying that he had heard about it somewhere, and he thoroughly hid any evidence that could be used as evidence, and continued his crimes ‘safely’ for several years.

‘Director Kim Si-woon has worked hard.’

He particularly dislikes director Kim Si-woon’s films, and has tried to link them to bad reviews and groundless rumors, but has failed every time.

In addition, he has designated several directors who make macho films and has created controversy whenever he gets the chance, making people in the industry shiver.

The true identity of this troublemaker, Dewey, is film critic Jin So-hee.

Before I returned, there was an incident where the community server where Dewey was mainly active was hacked.

At this time, quite a bit of personal information was leaked, including information that could lead to inferences about Dewey’s identity.

After securing this, several issue-specialized YouTubers tracked it down and discovered Dewey’s true identity.

When this fact was revealed, the film industry was turned upside down, and Jin So-hee was cornered as controversies and false accusations from several years ago were recalled.

In the end, I was sued for defamation, but I returned midway and never saw the results.

‘By the way, it’s really weird. You’ve been fighting with Director Kim Si-woon for 20 years.’

It’s been 15 years since Dewey became notorious as a troublemaker, but his bad relationship with director Kim Si-woon has already begun.

As I thought about this, I began to wonder if the child abuse controversy that would soon follow was also caused by Dewey.

Future examples show that the movie cafe was the starting point of the controversy.

If Dewey is active there, it’s quite possible.

‘The problem is there is no evidence.’

A few days later, if a Nick named Dewy were to cause a controversy over child abuse, and his true identity was Jin So-hee, and he had to be caught in advance… who would believe him?

Since it hasn’t even happened yet, there’s nothing we can do if you ignore it.

‘In the end, I have no choice but to deal with it.’

If the controversy breaks out and is quickly resolved and then a counterattack is launched, at least the bad relationship with Director Kim Si-woon can be severed.

The mess 15 years from now will take care of itself, so you don’t have to worry about it now.

“Hey, Director.”

I handed a videotape to Director Kim Si-woon, who was clicking his tongue while reading Jin So-hee’s film review.

“What is this?”

“This is a video of me talking with senior Go Eun-hye on set… .”

The tape even contained footage of her volunteering at a daycare center.

I asked them to edit out briefly the dialogue scenes that showed how much actress Ko Eun-hye loves children, as well as the scenes where she plays with children at the daycare center.

“I’m going to talk about you during the interview. I need a video clip to play on the screen at that time.”

There will be rumors that the child was treated harshly on set to get desperate acting.

The realistic acting of actress Ko Eun-hye, who appears to be really abusive, will be put on the chopping block, and the gossip will amplify and reproduce this.

‘This video is absolutely necessary to turn that mood around.’

But director Kim and the distributor were in a difficult position.

There is a response that they do not understand why a video promoting an individual actor is necessary when it is not enough to play a promotional video for the movie.

“Please edit it so that I can promote it during the interview. If nothing happens that requires the video before the interview, I won’t ask you to play it.”

“I hear something is going to happen.”

“If, if.”

I’m not sure if I’ll be able to explain it when it actually happens, but I can’t think of a better excuse right now.

*****

The film was released as scheduled at the end of June.

[Movie ‘Confessions of a Pianist’ Shows Signs of Box Office Success… Surpasses 500,000 Viewers in First Week of Release]

[A dark horse appears in the summer theater district… What kind of movie is Director Kim Ji-woon’s new film?]

Following ‘Best Friend’, which set a huge box office record as a 2001 film, it ranked second in the first week audience rankings.

With such a blockbuster hit coming out before the full-blown summer season even began, the media was quick to report on the news.

While analyzing the film from various angles, we also predicted that it would become director Kim Si-woon’s biggest hit.

“Let’s go for 8 million~ Hahahaha!”

Naturally, the production and distribution companies were all smiles.

8 million is the number of viewers for ‘Best Friend’, the highest-grossing Korean film of all time.

It is such an incredible record that it seems unlikely that it will be broken until ‘Silvido’, which is scheduled to be released next year, becomes the first movie to reach 10 million viewers.

The initial box office success was unprecedented, to the point where these numbers came out as nothing.

But this box office trend hits a snag as it enters its second week.

It was a child abuse controversy that I saw in my vision of the future.

[That might not be acting…]

Dewey’s post, which started the controversy, was surprisingly unremarkable.

After making a fuss about how child acting was no joke, he brought up the past rampant child actor exploitation cases in Hollywood.

Although it was old, there were real, near-abuse films, so people started to get hooked on Dewey’s clever rhetoric.

[Actually, actress Ko Eun-hye…]

Actress Ko Eun-hye, who is a perfectionist when it comes to acting, does not overlook actors who act half-heartedly on set.

Her role was to harshly reprimand everyone, from idols with no passion for acting, to leading actors who rely solely on their experience and act out of inertia, to rookies who ignore the basics because they are too ambitious.

The only exception was the child actors, who were struggling to act, but who were never scolded or scolded as harshly as adult actors.

However, Dewey omitted this part and wrote the story in a way that made the viewer misunderstand Go Eun-hye as a tyrant on set.

He never used emotional descriptions, and he tried to convey the truth by pretending to convey facts dryly.

Dewey’s writings were passed down through many hands and became fleshed out in a negative way.

Actress Ko Eun-hye tortured the child actor to perfection, and the director ignored it. The poor child actor was so scared that he filmed the scene and it was captured in the movie.

The movie’s message, the actors’ performances, and the directing were pushed to the back burner, and only the controversy over whether or not it was child abuse surfaced.

Dewey saw this controversy spreading to various bulletin boards and showed thoroughness by deleting the original post.

Of course, I went to that movie cafe every day to check if Dewey’s post was up, and as soon as I saw the post, I captured the text and comments.

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[Untimely child abuse controversy… Even after the press conference, there are still some things that are unclear…]

As seen in the future prediction, the production company even held a press conference to try to quell the controversy, but once the fire was lit, it was not easily extinguished.

“Why is the issue of abuse that didn’t even happen coming up? Is acting realistic also a problem?”

It was a crazy situation for not only Director Kim but also the distributor.

This is because the box office graph, which had been soaring high without any signs of reaching the sky, plummeted due to this controversy.

“This is a really ridiculous situation, but it seems like people who feel offended are trying to vent their anger by nitpicking.”

“I actually have a lot of enemies.”

Director Kim Si-woon’s self-deprecating remarks sum up the situation.

“Director, how about my interview?”

“KBC immediately gave the okay when you said you wanted to be interviewed. But I wonder if it’s right for you to go out in this atmosphere.”

“That’s why I have to go out even more. People have a huge misunderstanding about senior Go Eun-hye, but only I, who acted with her, can solve this.”

No one objected to what was said because it was true for everyone.

“But, Hajin-ah. That video you asked me to edit last time… Did you prepare it knowing something like this would happen?”

“How could that be? My senior is doing really good things, but no one knows about it, so I just want to let you know. I’m not some kind of prophet.”

I can’t say I saw the future, so I just made a guess.

In this way, his appearance on KBC’s signature movie program ‘Movies are Good’ has been confirmed.

Now is the time to counterattack.