A stranger sent a message saying "your photo has been stolen and needs to be confirmed" with a link. When you click the link, you are attacked by phishing. The so-called "cyber hell" begins... Adapted from the documentary "cyber Hell: exposing room n" (hereinafter referred to as "cyber hell"), which once impacted Korean society, after it was launched online on the streaming media platform recently, Triggered heated public opinion in South Korea.
From the "tracking group spark", a college student group that initially tracked the "room n" incident, to the reporters who conducted formal interviews after receiving the report, and then to the online police who tracked the prisoners, the documentary revealed the truth of the incident through interviews with 24 relevant people. "From the beginning of planning, I wanted to make it into a fascinating crime film," said Cui Zhencheng, the film's director. Previously, most of the documentaries about crime were documentaries about traditional crimes such as serial homicide and antisocial personality disorder, while "cyber hell" recorded a new type of "cyber crime", "As long as it is a Korean audience, it must have a little understanding of the 'room n' incident, but after reading this work, you will feel that the truth of the incident we know is only the tip of the iceberg.".
Zheng Dexian, a Korean mass culture critic, believes that the social attention to relevant themes and the cinematic presentation make the documentary well received at home and abroad. According to the statistics of "flix Patrol", an online video content service ranking website, "online hell" ranked second in the list of Korean Netflix films after it went online on May 18, and then ranked first for three consecutive days. Yonhap said that the documentary also achieved good results in Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore, ranking 18th in the world in the Netflix film ranking, "For the facts of the crime, the documentary is presented through monochrome animation in a metaphorical way. On the one hand, it is to prevent the occurrence of secondary injury. On the other hand, it also reminds the audience of the seriousness of the problem and conveys the message that even if the principal offender of the 'room n' incident is arrested, the cyber crime is still staged in reality.".
Many South Korean netizens commented that "documentaries enable us to understand their experiences from the standpoint of victims", "this is a good theme, and we hope to continue to disclose social crimes with film themes", "documentaries present the worst type of crime in the 21st century, such as cybercrime. What makes people resent is that such events may occur in reality at any time".