Culture War: It Begins with Mockumentaries

He joked on set, “Just play dead,” and then really died of sudden cardiac arrest. When he opened his eyes again, he had transmigrated to another world, into a shady entertainment company, and was bound to the [Director’s Workshop] System. This world is divided among four powers: Zhongzhou, the Southern Federation, White Rhine, and the Eastern Plains Federation. They haven’t fought a war in three hundred years. The battlefield has moved entirely to the silver screen. Then the System gave him a genre that didn’t exist in this world at all: mockumentary. The Talent Radar finds actors for him, the Team Aura helps him assemble a crew, and the prize wheel occasionally hits him with a “Thanks for playing.” He once won an S-rank item, only to open it and find a blank sheet of A4 paper. Come here, you three. Think we can talk this out? He declares war on the Southern Federation’s commercial hegemony! On White Rhine’s academic hegemony! On the Eastern Plains’ idol system, which has swept across half of Zhongzhou! On the cultural order of the entire world! Father of the mockumentary, king of low-budget films, pioneer in a cinematic wasteland, victor in the culture war. From today on, I’ll be the one writing the rules of cinema in this world.