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| Netflix"Trunk" production presentation was held at the Raum Art Center in Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the 26th. Gong Yoo has a photo time. Yeoksam-dong = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2024.11.26/ |
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Actor Gong Yoo, who supported former President Park Chung-hee, who was considered a symbol of the "dictatorial regime" and "emergency lineage" in the past, but recently urgently explained that he was "politically exploited" and raised eyebrows by revealing his discomfort over the harsh criticism against his new Netflix original series "Trunk" (played by Park Eun-young, directed by Kim Kyu-tae).
Gong Yoo drew attention by releasing a message from an acquaintance who left a 'Trunk' review on his official account story on the 6th.
This acquaintance "I don't like harmless people being harmed because of rude people, and I don't like society and capital forcing people to become fools and letting them give up in despair. "I'm upset. That's why I've always been thinking and thinking about you."
Gong Yoo recently said in an online community that during an interview with a fashion magazine in 2005, 'What are the three men you think are the coolest?The fact that 'my father, Michael Jordan, and Park Chung-hee' was answered to the question ' was again controversial. Gong Yoo's remarks referring to former President Park Chung-hee, the symbol of the "military dictatorship", as a "cool man" coincided with the controversy over President Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of emergency martial law, which led to a growing number of people expressing doubts about historical perception and political orientation.
As the controversy grew, Gong Yoo said in an interview with a new film 'Trunk' on the 5th that `Whenever these political issues or situations arise, I also thought I was being exploited. Because I'm a celebrity, I feel like I'm being lined up because the story has been interpreted and added to it"It was not an interview with a deep conversation, but an interview with a fashion magazine. A word written there has become an issue like a tag for 20 years. What was clear was that I did not live with a false sense of history or a false moral ethic, and that was clear. I thought it could be a mistake and a happening as a result, nothing more than that" he said.
An acquaintance who seemed to support Gong Yoo's happening lamentation that he was politically exploited for his remarks of 'cool man Park Chung-hee' comforted Gong Yoo, saying, `I don't want harmless people to be harmed because of rude people.'
In addition, Gong Yoo's acquaintance drew attention by adding an appreciation of 'Trunk', which has been criticized for 'sexual marriage' since it was released to the world on the 29th of last month. 'Trunk' is a story surrounding a suspicious trunk that suddenly rises to the lake one day, and it is a drama about a mysterious event and a wave of emotions that takes off the veil with a secret hidden in it. As a means of meeting the two main characters in the play, a company that provides a fixed-term marriage service called NM appears, and it has raised viewers' eyebrows as it contains a contract condition that sexual intercourse is possible if they want to. Han Jung-won (Gong Yoo) and No In-ji (Seo Hyun-jin) in the drama, and Han Jung-won's exes Lee Seo-yeon (Jung Yoon-ha) and Yoon Ji-oh (Joyeon) used the fixed-term marriage service, and most of all, Lee Seo-yeon and Yoon Ji-oh made viewers like and dislike each other with high-level sex scenes. Since the drama's release, most viewers have been criticized by the reaction "What is this if it's not prostitution?"Drama that promotes sex trafficking."
This acquaintance said, "I'm not saying this because you came out, but I haven't been in a drama that I've been pondering since the 'liberation diary'." I think 'Liberation Diary' contained more dramatic situations and settings, as the characters looked normal. And I think it was easy to see because I didn't have feelings to turn away from it. "Trunk" deals with emotions, psychology, and relationships that any human being would have thought about at least once, so I think there must have been a lot of people who were not confident to face it. When even the main characters faced the emotions that scared them, even the viewers were able to be comforted together. So did I."
Gong Yoo is believed to have confronted the harsh criticism by disclosing the reviews of acquaintances who gave favorable reviews on 'Trunk' on his behalf when 'Trunk' was beaten for prostitution marriage through a public account. In fact, Gong Yoo expressed discomfort over the harsh criticism of sex trafficking in an interview with 'Trunk'. "I don't even want to talk about the wording itself, but it was shocking for people to see that it was an article about sex OOO. It was a bit shocking to go that far. I expect too much, I know, but I think negative views are part of it. When it was simultaneously opened in more than 190 countries, not all of them, various opinions poured out, and I thought it was divided just by looking at Korea. Our intentions exist from various perspectives. It would be a problem if all viewers saw it that way, but there are many viewers who did not. I think it's just a variety of perspectives."
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| photo courtesy of Netflix |
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Nevertheless, the public's response is still cold. It's been a hot reaction in some communities since Gong Yoo's account story was released. Netizens want to claim that Gong Yoo is harmless?" There may be viewers' disapproval of "Trunk", but the main actor came forward and became a defense mechanism himself."You see sex trafficking as prostitution, but if an actor acted it, does it mean it's not prostitution?" "Did you want to force viewers to give good reviews" "You made me feel uncomfortable with "Trunk" " As a viewer, is it okay to express my feelings about being scratched by harsh criticism like that?" You said it's a variety of views on the 'Trunk" and you're going to be so angry at the criticism?" He still reacted coldly to Gong Yoo's move.
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