Synopsis
"Trending Topic" (热搜, 2023) is a Chinese crime drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Xin Yukun and starring Zhou Dongyu as Chen Miao, editor-in-chief of a grassroots news platform. One article goes viral overnight. That's when the real trouble begins.
Behind every trending story in China there's someone who decided it should trend — and someone else who'd rather it hadn't. Advertising pressure, fabricated sources, and a deepening sense that the line between breaking the news and being used by it is thinner than it looks. Song Yang plays the investigator who ends up on the same trail as Chen Miao, and their parallel paths give the film its structural tension.
Xin Yukun previously built slow-burn crime in factory-town settings; here he moves to the digital arena and finds the same machinery of corruption running underneath. Stream "Trending Topic" (2023) online on iFILM.
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