The Post-Truth World Ending Explained dives deep into the mystery thriller that revolves around a baseball player turned fugitive, Zhang Zheng-Yi, who joins forces with the desperate journalist Liu Li-min to prove his innocence. The two-hour-long flick is helmed by Chen I-fu and stars Edward Chen and Joseph Chang in titular roles.
The complete cast of the movie includes Caitlin Fang, Aviis Zhong, Amber An, Shih Chih-tian and Chan Tzu-Hsuan. Furthermore, the Taiwanese film is alternatively titled 罪後真相 and Zui hou zhen xiang.
The Post-Truth World Ending Explained
From what we know after watching the film, Zhang Zheng-Yi (played by Edward Chen) gets a second chance at life, when he takes Liu Li-min (Joseph Chang) as a hostage to escape the high-security prison. And restarts his personal investigation surrounding the mysterious circumstances of Wang Shi-Yun’s death.
Initially, the former baseball player decides to go solo but later puts his limited trust in the keen journalist. He starts to track the events of the same night and deduces a number of horrifying details.
It is revealed that his girlfriend Wang Shi-Yun was part of a college drug group. And that she used to be a semi-addict. However, her wealthy father had made sure to hide all the information regarding her drug abuse and withhold a sensitive piece of evidence.
Zhang Zheng-Yi faces another breach of trust when he learns about the ongoing live streams from Liu Li-min. Which not only hampers the course of his investigation but also leads to more collateral damage. Moreover, the wanna-be ethical journalist tries to defend his honest intentions, and then later learns that his organization has been using him as a pawn.
Liu Li-min confronts the head of his sensationalist media group and holds him accountable for the mess. Meanwhile, the justice-seeking baseball prodigy finally solves the last piece of the murder mystery.
During the final reveal, we get to see the complete picture of the unfortunate night. Zhang Zheng-Yi finds that the usher cum theatre employee overheard Wang Shi-Yun’s conversation with Liu Li-min’s wife. Where the former tried to trade off the controversial news concerning Zhang Zheng-Yi with her college drug racquet.
In this dramatic turn of events, Wang Shi-Yun consumes the drug herself and then turns into a state of frenzy. Moreover, when she learns that the usher has heard the entire conversation, she threatens to call the police station. Thereby turning the entire situation into a mess, during which the usher ends up killing her.
In the final set of scenes, we get to see Liu Li-min’s confession about the events that transpire between Zhang Zheng-Yi and the usher. Even though the revenge-filled baseball player kills the usher in complete fury, the former plans the narrative of self-defence to safeguard his interest. Furthermore, the film ends on this ambiguous note while Liu Li-min eats ice cream with his daughter and reminisces about the true nature of events.
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