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Interesting review. 👏
On average, how many movies do you watch in a day or say a week? just curious 😛
The good part of The Post-Truth World is director Chen I-fu’s efforts to make it a glossy flick for the audience. Actors engaged themselves in the plot. Especially, Joseph Chang and Edward Chen. Ultimately, it’s their story. One tries to scale up his YouTube channel with one million subscribers and the other badly needs to prove his innocence in a murder case.
Liu Li-min (Joseph Chang) is basically a good journalist and a known news anchor. But being part of an unsuccessful firm focused on identifying truths behind sensational stories, he needs boiling content. Recently, he started believing in there is nothing called bad fame. His teenage daughter Chen-chen (Caitlin Fang) is also not impressed with his lean subscriber list. But the internet kid assists her dad and sometimes leads him to better options.
The promising baseball player Zhang Zheng-Yi is accused of killing his rich girlfriend Wang Shi-Yun in the baseball park when the Asia League Series was on. Media sensationalized the case. The film targets to portray the growing tendency of media in Taiwan to overturn the truth to create hype. Liu Li-min is not totally against it. By chance, he had to help Zhang Zheng-Yi to escape the prison and joins hands with him to solve the mystery behind the murder.
The Post-Truth World now takes the route of a standard crime thriller with enough twists and turns. When Liu Li-min and Zheng-Yi are totally into the case, strange secrets unravel one after another leading to the real culprit. Yeah, an unexpected end paid off. But was that edgy? I doubt.
I liked the emotional acting of Edward Chen and Joseph Chang’s perfect balance on screen. The last scene was cute.