Superstar From Age 0

Chapter 402:

-Moviegoer!

-Hi, everyone! This is Moviegoer!

“Hello, everyone. This is Moviegoer.”

Moviegoer bowed to the camera and lifted his head.

The camera installed on the monitor felt a bit unfamiliar.

He had just reviewed [One Shot] yesterday.

‘Maybe it's because of the movie I'm going to review today.’

The viewers’ reactions were also similar to Moviegoer's uneasy feeling.

-You look a bit different, don't you?

-Yeahㅠㅠ

-No, he just gained weight;;;

-ㅠㅠIsn't there a disease that makes you gain weight when you’re sick?

-Don't take jokes as documentariesㅋㅋㅋ

Moviegoer smiled and showed the camera a health checkup report that he had prepared in advance.

“I'm not sick. I'm very healthy. I had a health checkup recently. Here. You can see that everything is normal, right?”

-We didn't ask you to show us…ㅎ

-But I feel relieved.

-It seems like a lot of YouTubers are worried about their health these days.

-Some of them did find out that they had some problems, though.

-I hope everyone gets well soonㅠㅠ

“I'm glad it's not a serious illness. I hope the YouTubers who are sick get well soon.”

-Not only YouTubers, but also ordinary people seem to have a lot of health checkups, right?

-ㅇㅇ I did too. And my parents.

-A lot of people are asking how I'm doing too!

-The government has been promoting it every day, so shouldn't they appoint Seo-jun as the ambassador?ㅋㅋ

-The sales of health products also increasedㅋㅋㅋ

“I've experienced how movies can change people's lives, but I still think their influence is amazing. I'm also taking care of the health of the people around me. I hope you all take care of your family, friends, and yourself. Not only your physical health, but also your mental health.”

-ㅠㅠYoon-chanㅠㅠ

-I really can't see anything because of the tearsㅠㅠ

The number of live viewers that had been increasing stopped at a certain number and fluctuated.

There were times when the live broadcast alarm didn't ring, so Moviegoer chatted a little as usual and then started the movie review.

“Everyone here must have seen it, right? Please watch the movie first. Then I’ll start the review of the movie, Flowing Away. The movie Flowing Away is directed by Min Hee-kyung and stars Lee Seo-jun as the lead actor. It won the Golden Palme d’Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival this time! Lee Seo-jun and Min Hee-kyung, congratulations to both of you!”

Moviegoer clapped his hands and applause emoticons filled up the chat window.

-Congratulations!!!

-(Applause) and (cheering)

-ㅊㅎㅊㅎㅊㅎ

-Congratulations!(A bear emoticon clapping vigorously) Seo-jun said he watched Moviegoer's video at Cannes live, so he must be watching this too!

-Huh! Really? Congratulations!!

When everyone shouted congratulations in response to that comment, the chat went up so fast that it was almost invisible. Moviegoer smiled brightly at the tremendous cheers.

“I hope Lee Seo-jun watches this.”

-You watched the movie at Cannes, right?

-How was it?

“It was good. It was very exciting to watch the world premiere. I was also thrilled at first because there were actors and directors around me. But I didn't pay attention to them when I watched the movie.”

-I'm jealous. Watching a movie with Seo-jun next to you.

-But with Seo-jun's acting skills, he probably wouldn't notice even if he sat right next to him.

-222 It was funny and touching to talk with Min Hee-kyung.

“Flowing Away starts with the words that appear on the first screen. Along with the words written in a crisp font, Jung Ga-ram's voice flows out.”

-This fall.

-I decided to go on a trip.

-The destination is the sea.

-Solidarity is awesome!

Moviegoer smiled and continued his speech.

“You all know that the working title of Flowing Away was Travel, right? Until Part 1, I thought it was Jung Ga-ram's travelogue, going through Suwon, cheonan, Daegu, and Busan.”

-The places were really cool.

-That's why there are a lot of people traveling.

-There are also a lot of foreigners.

-The people who cry there are Seo-jun's fans.

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Moviegoer, who had teared up on the way to Hwaseong Fortress in Suwon after watching the Nth screening, coughed lightly.

“Until Part 1, when he met Kwon Yoon-chan and Kwon Yoon-chan's father stole Jung Ga-ram's laptop, it was a story that made me smile naturally. Maybe it's because they had been in sync for One Step, but their chemistry was good.”

-I really watched it with a smile until then.

-But when I watched it for the second time, I really couldn't see anything because of the tears.

-222 I didn't know he was so thin.

-Moviegoer. Why didn't we notice?

“The atmosphere was too good.”

-The atmosphere?

“Any movie can change its atmosphere depending on the direction or background music. If you put on a cheerful music, it becomes a teen movie, and if you put on a serious music, it becomes a thriller movie.”

-There are some videos like that on YouTube. They put funny background music on thriller movie edits.

Moviegoer nodded his head.

“Yes. That's one way. The first part, which was different enough to be divided into two parts, was directed by the director as a healing story with a calm and pleasant atmosphere, so the audience didn't see what they should have seen because they were swept away by the atmosphere. That's why we didn't notice that there was no food in the travel video of Part 1 and that the trip stopped in the middle and got shorter.”

-Huh;;;That's right? There was no food?

-How can you leave out food in a Korean's trip!

-The range of activity also got narrower. The background changed to the accommodation in the middle.

-I never thought of that…!

“The first crisis came to the audience who didn't notice anything because of the editing.”

-I thought the laptop theft was the biggest crisis in this movie.

-It wasn'tㅠㅠ

“Right. There was too much time left in the movie for that. But I didn't expect that there would be so many explosions in the back.”

-There was no calm before the storm.

“After that incident, Jung Ga-ram and Kwon Yoon-chan's relationship got better after the rain. He also helped him with his finger when he choked on mackerel.”

-That was funny for foreignersㅋㅋㅋ

-Why do you prick your finger with a needle???

-But pricking your finger is really effective.

-There was also an English-subtitled lecture on how to prick your fingerㅋㅋ

Moviegoer smiled and said.

“It was a sensation at Cannes. It showed how Korean this movie was. But it was not something to laugh and pass by, although the audience didn't know. The real story began when Jung Ga-ram collapsed while watching the sunrise. I was really shocked then.”

-Lee Seo-joon is so good at acting sickㅠㅠ

-I kept saying ???.

-22 His face was so pale that I was surprised.

“From then on, the situation changed rapidly. From the ambulance to the emergency room, Jung Ga-ram's mother who rushed in, the intensive care unit. It was like a storm that hit without a breath. And Kwon Yoon-chan saw Jung Ga-ram's phone.”

-That was Pandora's box.

-Everyone watched with bated breath.

“There were things that Jung Ga-ram didn't show in part 1. The unedited original video brought horror and despair, and sorrow to Kwon Yoon-chan and the audience.”

-Once again, I say… Lee Seo-joon is so good at acting sickㅠㅠㅠ

-I really kept cryingㅠㅠㅠ

-I still think of the sadnessㅠㅠ

“Kwon Yoon-chan learned the truth and Jung Ga-ram's past was revealed to the audience. He was a child who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness. The contrast between the boy in the hospital and Jung Ga-ram's acting was very impressive. The actor who played the boy was Kim Haun, who is a school friend of Lee Seo-joon.”

-He was so pitiful thenㅠㅠ and he was so meanㅠㅠ

-I think it was more shocking because I knew how good and sick Jung Ga-ram was in part 1 and part 2.

-He didn't have a single line of dialogue, but his emotions were conveyed so well, I thought this was acting.

-I ran out of tissues cryingㅠㅠ

“Maybe most of the audience thought the movie would end there. I did. But it wasn't.”

-Manipulation! Our Ga-ram is manipulation!!

-The scum…!

-No, why did it happen like that?!

The chat room boiled with anger. The moviegoer nodded sympathetically.

“Who would have thought that YouTube manipulation scandal would explode. No one knew. And the story turned again quickly. Kwon Yoon-chan told his whole story, but no one believed him.”

-It was so frustrating that I wanted to die.

-I felt so wronged.

“The reaction of the people who were going along with the manipulation changed with one post.”

-I didn't expect the laptop to come out!

“When the manipulation scandal became a hot topic, and even the terminal illness was revealed, it became news-worthy. The people's reaction also changed.”

-That turned out to be a good thingㅠㅠ

-The doctorㅠㅠ

“Yes. A doctor appeared who said he would do surgery on Jung Ga-ram. Then there was a scene of Jung Ga-ram heading to the operating room and the screen changed.”

-This winter.

-We decided to go on a trip.

-The destination is the sea.

“Yes. I think this might be an epilogue. It was a scene of Jung Ga-ram looking at the sunrise and turning around at Kwon Yoon-chan's call.”

-Kwon Yoon-chan: Hey! Jung Ga-ram!

-Touchingㅠㅠㅠ

-I cried a lot here too.

-His smile was so brightㅠㅠ

-His complexion was good tooㅠㅠ

“The epilogue came out and the movie ended as it flowed. I thought it was just a calm everyday story at first, but from the end of part 1 to the end of the movie, it was a movie that hit like a storm.”

-I couldn't watch it without tearsㅠㅠ

-I'm glad it was a happy ending.

-Ga-ramㅠㅠ Yoon-chanㅠㅠ Be happyㅜ

“If part 1 was edited happiness and part 2 was unedited truth, then part 3 was uncertain reality.”

The moviegoer said in a calm voice.

“I think that's where the title came from. The audience and the people in part 3 just focused on what they saw, and were swept away by other people's opinions, not knowing whether it was true or false, and just flowed along.”

-Ooh. I see.

-I was curious about the meaning of the title.

“I think Flowing Away wanted to tell us that there might be hidden truths behind editing. In these days when many stories are floating around, don't just go along with other people's opinions, but discern the truth well.”

-But flowing along is not always a bad thing.

-22 Thanks to that, he met the doctor.

-He means to judge well.

-I thought it was because of the protagonist's name.

One comment made Moviegoer nod.

“Yes. Jung Ga-ram's name is also inseparable. Ga-ram is a pure Korean word. It means flowing like a river to the sea. It seems like Jung Ga-ram is flowing to the sea. Uh, um…”

Moviegoer scratched his cheek and opened his mouth.

“Well. That was the happy ending.”

-…Yes???

-…That's it???

-What, what do you mean???

“Please keep in mind that this is my own interpretation from now on.”

-…Was it really a harmful material?

-Haha… Haha… Escape angle?

“First of all, let's recall the beginning and the epilogue parts. Both had handwritten letters, right? But the fonts were different. A blocky font and a flowing font.”

-…Hmm.

“I thought it might be because Jung Ga-ram wrote it in a weak state, but in the first part, Jung Ga-ram's voice came out, right? But not in the epilogue.”

-…Oh.

“And the words winter and we are also important. And the white snow that fell in the epilogue.”

-…Ah.

“If you combine them all… My interpretation is that Kwon Yoon-chan wrote the epilogue and ‘we’ means Kwon Yoon-chan and Jung Ga-ram's parents without Jung Ga-ram. Winter seems to mean right after the surgery. He had surgery around late autumn, but he wouldn't recover that quickly…”

The chat room that was slowly rising stopped.

In the heavy atmosphere, Moviegoer rolled his eyes and continued.

“Uh… You know how there are scenes like that in dramas. Going to the sea and… sprinkling it.”

The viewers all thought of the same scene.

People in white robes and black suits holding urns and sprinkling white powder towards the sea.

-Aaaaaa!!

-Ga-ramㅠㅠㅠ

-…I curse you!! Movie acid!!

-Our Ga-ram… Our Ga-ram…!

“No, no need to curse…”

-I should have escaped earlier(regretful)ㅠ

-22 I think I’ll remember it when I see it again(despairing lion emoticon)ㅠㅠㅠ

-ㅠㅠThen what was Ga-ram at the end?

Moviegoer who was rolling his eyes awkwardly smiled and said.

“…An illusion?”

-Aaaaaa!!!

-Ha… Ha ha… It was pretty like an illusion.

They all seemed to have given up, but unfortunately, Moviegoer's review was not over yet.

“There is a poem by Cheon Sang-byeong called The Poet's Heaven. I will return to heaven. The day I end this beautiful world picnic.”

-I'm out of here!

“Go and say it was beautiful. Maybe Jung Ga-ram also ended his enjoyable trip and flowed to the sea, I think… Ack. Where are you all going?”