Qian Mou's efficiency was quite high; before dinnertime, the new film review had already been sent over.

*Okay, "The Emperor's New Clothes" is Indeed Good-Looking*

"This was originally a three-star long review, but after watching it a second time, I decided to change the rating."

"Before, I thought this was a pretentious film, especially adding commercials into the movie and forcing the audience to watch them with the protagonist! It was a terrible mistake!"

"But after watching it a second time, I realized I was wrong. Each of these commercials was carefully planned and had a profound meaning!"

"First of all, these commercials didn't allow any real-world brands to be inserted, didn't take the easy money, and ensured the viewing experience for all audiences. In contrast to the phenomenon of 'bringing capital into the group,' this in itself is worthy of praise!"

"Secondly, the design of these commercials is very sophisticated. Not only are the shooting techniques excellent, but the types of commercials are also very diverse, including funny ones and postmodern stream-of-consciousness ones. On the one hand, it allows the audience to immerse themselves in this future worldview, and on the other hand, just watching these commercials is interesting enough!"

"Thirdly, the commercials play a role in connecting the story. A simple example: Zhang Zuting's character, the judge, actually appeared in a TV commercial at the very beginning, and the female host who later rose to power also shot commercials before. You'll notice these when you watch it a second time."

"Finally, the commercials have a very sharp satirical meaning! When the protagonist drinks beer, the commercial pushes fried chicken and red wine to him; when the protagonist loses money, the commercial pushes loan services; when the protagonist has a lot of savings, the commercial starts recommending various financial products. This is undoubtedly satirizing the issue of big data and privacy leaks!"

"I originally thought that commercials were just commercials, but now I realize that I was completely wrong. This technique of adding commercials to a movie without causing audience resentment and even deepening the movie's content is simply too brilliant!"

"I used to think that this film was just forcibly given a sci-fi skin, and it was just that the scenes were a little better made, but now I know I was wrong. This film clearly contains reflections on the future and technology everywhere!"

"Domestic science fiction films have always fallen into a misunderstanding, always pursuing large scenes and epic narratives, but *A Better Tomorrow* has taken a different approach and found another possibility, which is to bring the perspective closer to ordinary people. For domestic science fiction films, this is obviously a very good direction!"

"In short, I am deeply impressed by this movie, five-star praise without explanation!"

"I deeply regret that I once misinterpreted this film. The reason why I couldn't understand this film was entirely because I was short-sighted and had a low level of thought..."

The last paragraph is all about fancy repentance, repeatedly expressing the same meaning: "Those who say bad things about this movie are all hicks who don't understand it!"

Obviously, this is for padding the word count...

Pei Qian asked him to write a thousand words, but he was still three hundred words short at the end, so he had to say some repetitive things to perfunctorily complete the task.

Although this move has the suspicion of cheating money, Pei Qian doesn't mind at all.

This Qian Mou has completed the task very well!

The request Pei Qian made to him was nothing more than to find a very tricky angle to forcibly praise it, and Qian Mou did find such an angle, which is the commercials!

Pei Qian added commercials to the movie in the first place to make up time, to lengthen the movie's time so that it could meet the requirements for theatrical release.

But look at how Qian Mou praised it.

He's practically praising the commercials as better than the main feature!

If he praised the plot's spiritual content or the actors' acting skills, it would seem like a big deal, and it wouldn't be so obvious to the audience that this film critic author had received money.

But praising the commercials in the movie?

And the attitude changed so much?

Shouldn't many people be able to see that this is forced praise?

Shouldn't someone realize that he received money to change the film review?

Without saying a word, Pei Qian paid the final payment and couldn't wait to see the latest comments below this film review.

Of course, it will still take some time for the audience to discover the changed film review.

Pei Qian considered waiting for a while before coming back to look at it, and first go online to see how the competition's shill results were.

After flipping through it a little, Pei Qian couldn't help but sigh. It seems that the competition is quite rich. These shills are simply overwhelming!

The professional ability of the shills is certainly important, but the number is more important.

If you want a lot of people, then you have to spend more money. Different levels of accounts have to be paid for writing bad reviews and giving low scores, which is not a small expense.

But the larger the scale, the happier Pei Qian is!

Although the wording of these shills is a bit monotonous, they are all forced black like "loose plot," "performance is not in the play," "dialogue lines are too cold," "mixed with commercials," and "no sincerity," but with more people, it can really achieve the effect of mixing fish eyes with pearls.

Because the purpose of the shills' momentum is to influence those who have not seen the movie. If the black is not deep enough, it will not have the effect of dissuading them.

Not only that, but a large-scale low-star rating operation has also begun. The score that Pei Qian saw at noon was still 8.8 points, but now it has become 8.6 points, and it seems that there is still a tendency to continue to decline.

Pei Qian spent a whole hour flipping through the bad reviews, and his mood was finally a little happier.

"I don't know which kind person hired the shills. They really solved my urgent need!"

"Well... it seems that I can go and see the reaction after Qian Mou's film review was modified."

Pei Qian opened the comment area of Qian Mou's film review and skipped the previous comments on the first few pages.

"Huh, there are so many comments in just one hour?"

"Maybe everyone found out that he received money to change the film review, so they hung him up and criticized him?"

Pei Qian looked forward to these new comments.

"It's great to correct mistakes!"

"Did a blackmailer discover his conscience?"

"I said before, this movie is not that kind of mindless popcorn movie, you have to savor it! If you take a cursory look, you won't see many details, of course you will think this movie is not good! But after watching it a second time, you will see these details, and it will be instantly different, right?"

"The angle of the commercials is indeed very interesting. I used to just regard the commercials as a background and didn't pay much attention to them. I just thought that a few individual commercials were quite funny. Now I know that there are so many connotations in them!"

"Written so well, I want to watch it a second time!"

"I've had this intention for a long time!"

"The author's last repentance is also very sincere. Based on your attitude of admitting your mistake, I'm considering turning from a hater to a fan."

"This film review let me know that all success is not accidental. Behind a successful movie, how many carefully planned details are there! Director Zhu Xiaoce is awesome!"

"May I ask the author, can I forward it?"

"I also want to forward it."

Page five.

Page six.

...The last page.

Pei Qian flipped through all the new comments and scratched his head in confusion.

What the hell???

You didn't see such obvious forced praise?

Don't you feel disgusted at all?

He received money to change the film review!

Really received money! I can testify!

Is anyone in charge?

Pei Qian was speechless. The focus of these audiences is too strange, isn't it? They don't care about why this author changed the film review, but instead they really care about the commercials in the movie?

What about cooperating with the competition's shills from the inside out?

The cooperation ended before it even started...

Pei Qian opened Dog Eye App and took a look. Sure enough, the screenings for tomorrow have already come out, and the screenings for *A Better Tomorrow* have increased again!

It seems a bit like being besieged on all sides.

"Shill brothers, keep up the good work! Although you can only fight alone, my heart is with you!"

For some reason, Pei Qian suddenly felt a little sorry for these shills.

Logically speaking, these shills are manipulating right and wrong and reversing black and white for their own self-interest, so they should be particularly hateful.

However, Pei Qian felt that once they were related to him, these shills were like mantises lining up to block the car, going up to their deaths one by one, dying terribly.

And President Pei is the hostage tied to the car, who can only watch them being crushed by the wheels, and then silently wish them all the best while shedding tears in his heart...

For some reason, Pei Qian felt like a tragic character at this time.

...

...

February 24th, Thursday, the third day of the release of *A Better Tomorrow*.

Pengcheng.

Having just finished a meet-and-greet and publicity event, the main creators finally caught a little break.

Zhu Xiaoce plopped down on the chair: "I'm exhausted!"

Zhang Zuting smiled beside him: "Movie promotion is like this, Director Zhu, you'll get used to it."

Huang Sibobo was also quite tired from running around, pounding his legs while looking at online reviews of the movie on his phone.

"The overall evaluation is good, our movie is already a hit."

"However, the shills have obviously been dispatched. They've been刷 (shua - spamming) for three days, and the scores of our movie in many places are dropping. The score on Dog Eye App has dropped to 8.3 points."

Zhu Xiaoce thought for a while: "Do you want to tell President Pei about this? As long as we say hello to President Lin of Shenhua Film and Television, this matter should be settled, right?"

Huang Sibobo thought for a while, but shook his head: "We can definitely settle it, but we can't always owe President Lin favors. We've already troubled him too much with this promotion."

Zhu Xiaoce nodded: "Yeah, you're right, this is our own business. Besides, it doesn't matter if the score drops by a few tenths of a point, it's not worth disturbing President Lin for such a small matter."

Everyone fell silent, and only the sound of Huang Sibobo lightly pounding his legs remained.

However, Huang Sibobo suddenly increased his strength while pounding, and pounded hard.

"Damn it!" Huang Sibobo couldn't help but curse.

Everyone looked at him in confusion: "What's wrong?"

"Look at this!" Huang Sibobo handed over his phone.

Everyone looked and saw that Huang Sibobo's phone had a hot post, and the title of the post was: "Recording the Scores of *A Better Tomorrow* on Major Websites to See How Insane the Shill Army is - Continuously Updating."

The content of this post is very simple, which is to continuously record the score changes of *A Better Tomorrow* on major websites by means of screenshots. For example, on Dog Eye App, it has dropped from the initial 8.8 points to 8.3 points, which shows how rampant the activities of this shill army are.

The situation on other websites is roughly similar, and the scores are dropping, but the problem is more or less.

However, there is only one exception.

The tpdb website, the score has always been hovering around 9.1 points, as stable as an old dog!

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