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Looking for drama/movie about an event that the entire nation is watching

amazemerlinmagi

I recently watched Pandora (2016) and Exit (2019). In those movies, there were scenes where it seemed like the entire nation was watching their every move through news reports/social media to see if they would survive. In Pandora Jae hyuk/the nuclear scientist broadcasts his final wishes on national television so his family could see before they died and in Exit drone footage shows the couple trying to escape from the toxic gas and there were scenes where live streamers were rooting them on and so were people in the street.. 

It's very niche and it doesn't really have to be a disaster genre, it could be like a celebrity scandal or something but I really just like seeing events in the movie/drama from an outsider's POV. 

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Lou

These 2 movies follow a story that is taking place during a live broadcast; 

The Terror Live 

Confession of Murder

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Czakhareina

Not disaster dramas/Films, but the audience/ society /community/Media /social-media became a character/entity in the narrative:

  • Mr.Hiragii's Homeroom (Japan_drama)
  • Kyouen NG (Japan_Drama)
  • Wanted (Korea_drama)
  • Secret Superstar (India_Film)
  • Densha Otoku (Japan_Drama)
  • The Truman Show (US_Film) - this movie was waaay ahead of its time!!!
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Kez

Seiren no zange- the MC is a journalist who was assigned on a murder case of a high school girl which could possibly be a juvenile case so she believed that the only way to attain justice is through news media, it only has 5 episodes

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AH

Dramas where events in the drama make national news and we get to see at least one shot of regular people watching the events unfold on TV or through a similar medium:

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Czakhareina
 emaureeng:

Tunnel (2016) - Korean movie about a tunnel collapse

(I agree about The Truman Show!)

right?

So many people are living the Truman show. I remember back when I was a kid, I though the move was weird. I was like who will watch when someone sleeps. Why would people make up character and set up for a show if they are not actors. Why would poeple want to watch break-ups and drama on realtime.

... and now here we are in  era where even sleeping, studying, eating. When one has heartbrea,k post it on social media. when one has a kid or gender reveal post it on youtube. 

we are living in the Truman dome/bubble and whole world is the audience.

I wonder what happened to the writer of that film. s/he was really way ahead of the time. it told the future of how it will be in out time.



and also,I almost forgot: Hunger Games Series (US_Film) 

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amazemerlinmagi

Thank you so much!!!

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Saygo

I will just add on 

  • The Devil Judge - Literally the whole Country is watching and participating in a reality tv style courtroom with real life  implications
  •  Vincenzo- A major case gets exposed to the public

A lot of  crime drama's are this way too( Beyond Evil, Prison playbook etc)

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