This movie is bit more mature and heavy but I enjoyed that. It is nice to see how there is more and more movies and dramas about gay relationships, especially in South Korea where homosexuality is not totally exepted yet.
STORY-The story was really interesting it was nothing like what I have ever seen before, it was hard to tell what was going to happen next. There were moments where it wasn't quite clear if they are playing their characters in the play or just being themselves but I think that is what is so cool about the movie.
The story was a bit rushed because the movie was only 1h 22min long, it would have been better if the movie was around 2h.
ACTING/CAST- In my opinion the acting in this movie was great, the actors fit their roles really well. Although the agap between the main leads was 18 years it didn't disturb me at all, so don't worry the interactions between the actors weren't cringy or uncomfortable to watch at all.
For a rookie actor Oh Seung Hoon did a great job, this was his first movie but you really can't tell based on his acting.
Park Sung Woong's acting was also great as expected from a veteran actor.
MUSIC- The music compimented the story very nicely and I think it played a big role in this movie.
ENDING- What I like about this movie is that the whole story wasn't predictable, it was really hard to tell what was going to happen in the end and that's something that doesn't happen often with romantic movies.
I didn't like the ending but when i think about it it went well with the story.
All in all I really recommend watching this movie if you want something different from those sweet, cute romcom movies.
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I actually think it was genius, how the story line goes by seeing the characters’ feeling, it was more than just “romantic story” it was an art honestly, I enjoyed every second of it.
I like the actors so much, how they express their feeling, the way they act.
the ending leaves you confused, wanting to know more about it. I usually hate open ending, but it’s better than bad ending, so no complaining.
I’ll definitely recommend it to the ones who loves lgbtq movies & interesting storyline
10/10 loved it.
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I’m not sure but here’s my take
I don’t think the boy was in love and I don’t think either man was gay. The boy didn’t want to be in the play to begin with. Then the man embarrassed him in front of everyone and wanted him replaced. The boy learned about the man’s method acting and decided to show the man how he could do the same thing and how well he could act. All the things he did seemed to tie in with his character. The hanging went a little far but he knew he wouldn’t die and really scared the man. The man got played. Unfortunately, the man, although he loved his wife, did fall for the boy somewhere along the way. Mid-life crisis I guess. Very clever story.Esta resenha foi útil para você?
Life imitates art and art imitates life
I wasn't very impressed with this. I somehow expected more drama, intrigue, and obsession from this. I think for me this film falls short of executing what is otherwise a very interesting premise. It's partially due to the ambiguity of the narrative but it's not just that. There's also the fact that the film's intrigue is amped up too high because the actual film fails to deliver its meaning at certain points so it's both ambiguous and vague.Plot: An idol rapper is (for some reason) doing a super moody theater production with a famous theater actor known for his method acting. This whole thing seems convoluted because theater is too prestigious for idol actors like...seriously! But whatever. After initial disinterest and rebellion, the young idol slowly becomes interested in acting as he watches the seasoned actor. He tries to imitate the method acting technique and soon, things get weird!
Btw, the idol coming from a group called "P2S" is so gauche...Korea, please do better. Seriously...
Plot: So I could not understand the narrative from watching the film. It was so vague, choppy, and scattered for me, that I ended up reading the plot summary on Wikipedia in order to figure out what was happening in the film. I have since read some interesting interpretations of this film which partially succeeded in redeeming some aspects for me but for the most part, I could not understand why characters went from one point to another. Basic details of the plot were so convoluted and unnatural that I also failed at suspending my disbelief and spent a good amount of the film distracted by technicalities that made me feel second-hand embarrassment. Like how are they getting away with making a racy theater production about a gay affair?! It's been seven years and Korea can barely accept a TV show with a gay character in it, in the year of 2024! And why is an idol actor doing theater to begin with?! And why is everyone so chill about the bizarre behavior of these men?
That said, it wasn't all bad. The plot has a cyclical nature and that's so interesting. We're thrust in the middle of a script reading with no context of the drama's plot. We slowly figure out that the drama is the final, bloody moments of an affair gone wrong but we have no idea how the characters got there. Then we see the actors going through a process of living as the drama's characters, becoming them in every way. It's a self-fullfilling prophecy. The actors' attempt to embody the characters sets into motion a series of events that eventually come to precede the events of the drama they are supposed to act in. Real life becomes the cause and history of the drama's events and the drama is the cause and catalyst that brings about the incidents happening in real life. It's actually brilliant! There's also a seriously interesting point made about sincerity and bravery and it's completely entangled with the queer representation in the story which makes this an exclusively queer narrative, impossible to recreate with any other type of dynamic and that's so amazing. I love that!
But I didn't really get all this from just watching the film. I only put these together with the help of other people's analysis and reading the summary! So while I think the idea is great, I think the execution of the plot was sloppy.
Acting: and that brings me to the second point. I don't think the acting was great. It was too much and too little in different scenes and only hit the mark occasionally. I know there's supposed to be ambiguity in the story and we're not supposed to be totally sure if the characters are being honest or pretending but for that to be shown, sincerity and insincerity need to be contrasted against each other. Here though, characters are unreliable and vague all the time! I could never grasp a normal behavior standard for them to measure their abnormal behavior against. So that led to more confusion.
Production: I think the main issue of this film is directing. A better director would have directed the actors better, established the world order better, chosen the best shots, and made sure the editing was immaculate. Then this movie could have been a 10. I really think a better direction would have fixed everything. And that's odd because I believe the director wrote the script too so they should have been the perfect candidate to make this. I wonder why it fell short a bit.
Rewatch: Not really. It wasn't that interesting though it wasn't awful. Once was enough.
Overall: If you're curious, just watch it. But it's not a personal recommendation, for me.
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Suspenseful...
I've heard a lot about Method with many people recommending it as a "must-watch" for BL films. Though the story did feel rushed and was a tad too melodramatic at times, especially in its thrilling last act, I absolutely was enthralled with this story of art imitating life and the lines that blurs the two distinctions. The acting of the two leads were great and really pulled me into this forbidden love story. There were a few unresolved moments that were questionable though such as why Young Woo's demeanor changed so quickly from being reluctant to participate in the play to going the extra mile and who the stranger was who broke into Jaeha's house, who I'm guessing was Young Woo but what happened after the statue fell down? Did Jaeha's wife call the police? Did Young Woo appear? How did he appear? Did he do anything to the wife? This major plot point was kinda skimmed over to amp up the tension in the last act. And let's be honest, if Jaeha truly thought that Young Woo killed his wife, he wouldn't continue to act on stage but rather rushing to his house to save her. All in all, an entertaining and suspenseful story that is unique in the world of BL. Anyone looking to see something different, I highly recommend watching this film!Esta resenha foi útil para você?
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The emotions are on fire!
I don't really know how to rate this one, my emotions are so mixedOkay, lets say, logically, the movie is well-done but emotionally, it's not satisfying for me, lol.
The movie depicts exactly what it says, method acting. It shows how 2 MLs really show us what method acting looks like, leaving us unsure if what they have is real or unreal. I must say, I get totally immersed into it myself and totally think they are in love and want them to stay that way, which obviously is where I tripped myself up emotionally
Acting is SOOOO good for both actors, its definitely top notch KBL with quality acting, the emotions they express, especially by Seung Hoon. Their chemistry is sooo good and the kiss scene is hot af
The play itself is very dark and its quite hard for me to watch honestly, so I don't really enjoy this part, nor the ending
But then, again the movie is well done, its just not my liking as I prefer happy ending, So i'm rating logically, although ive such a mixed feelings. I so badly wanted them to be together. Oh well...its just, method :)
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Okay, first things first, the possibility of you or any person liking this movie is very subjective. All the reviews that I have read are either full of praises or it's just a no-no for some people.As a regular BL watcher, I regret that I did not find this movie sooner. I cannot believe that I was missing out on this. Yes! I've liked this movie way too much.
Side note - I seriously do not understand how can Korean actors/actresses portray such an amazing chemistry between their characters. If you are a regular Kdrama watcher, you'll understand what I am trying to say. This movie has such a good chemistry between the 2 leads. I was a little unsure at first because of the age difference between them, but OMG, they surely do not disappoint you. Also, I did not expect the kisses at all! This is a Korean movie, on top of that a BL. I was really not prepared for the kisses and trust me, those were not awkward at all. Once again, hella great chemistry.
Okay, on to the movie. As the name suggests - Method, this movie is really how you interpret it. Like, is it really just for the "Method" acting or were they really into each other. Could be both too or not.
The cast played out this movie really well. The palpable tension between the leads, their unspoken emotions. Everything was executed very nicely. The ending might not be the one you expect. It does end sort of realistically. But, the movie handles real issues, real struggles, the consequences of situations like these in real life situations very well.
The story - 100% ; The Cast/Acting - 100% (perfect casting, acc. to me) ; Will definitely re-watch this again and again.
P.S. For some people who will be watching it for the 1st time, it might become overbearing but trust me, you won't regret watching this movie. I think it does deliver the message they were trying to deliver.
One of the best BL Movies I've watched.
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Simple story, yet very engaging
Method acting is a very famous acting technique. Some think it's completely unnecessary and over the top, and this film certainly demonstrates how it can cause harm emotionally and even physically, to an extent.The performances were outstanding! Coupled with the music, the tension was felt. During the beginning love scenes and the play's opening night, for sure. I was on the edge of my seat and the film does a great job of putting you in Jae-ha's shoes during that last moment. We believed the same things and I was curious what he was going to do. This film does a great job flipping the experienced actor v. beginning actor where, by the end, the character with the upper hand switches.
In terms of representation of homosexuality, which I haven't really seen explored in the k dramas and films I've seen so far, I think it kind of leans into harmful stereotypes. Infidelity with an added age gap that makes it clear why Young Woo's agents thought it was predatory. The only mitigating factor (and it's very, very slight) is that it does not seem to have been a genuine intent from Young Woo. At least, I took from the ending that he was intending to move on and the entire affair was to perfect his role on stage.
So, it was a very riveting watch. I'd be curious to rewatch it again because the shift in their relationship was interesting to watch. I added Night Like You to my playlist on Spotify because I really liked it.
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This is a short film about two male actors in a play who appear to become lovers in 'real life'. It poses many interesting questions which simply need to be ... thought about. As can be seen from many comments below, people seem to bring their own concerns and wishes to their interpretation of what happens in the film. Some think it's about a powerful gay love affair between an older man and a younger man who both happen to be actors in play which calls for them to be intimate. Others think it is about "method acting" - the acting technique developed in the main by Konstantin Stanislavski, Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler 70/80 years ago - and the interesting notion that it could somehow force or trick the actors to adopt (in their everyday non-acting reality) the actions and desires of their characters on stage. Which is it here? Do the two men really fall for each other? Or do they merely enact a passion which is instilled in them through some sort of brainwashing brought about by the method acting technique? The film is clever and short and skates over the territory in a series of rather brief scenes which hint at both possibilities. And so the question is left open. However, it's interesting to see how some commentators are very keen to insist that there is no "real homosexuality" here. This is something we hear all the time, not least from and about actors in gay love stories and 'BL' series in the Far East: they're not "really" gay, they're "just acting". These claims are so universal that you wonder if any gay character is ever played by a real gay actor - or whether any gay actors exist at all. And so "Method" plays with that disquiet. One of the characters even says he isn't gay - he just likes the other actor, who happens to be gay. The problem is that we are not living in an open, equal world where people are free to live "without labels". Far from it. As we see very clearly in the film. Whatever is going on between them, the two men are not allowed to explore it. Instead, we actually see them torn apart violently, assaulted by various other people, and accused of "perversion". And so we're shown that it's impossible to penetrate through to any "reality" - unless actors who really are gay are finally free one day to ... be gay. And that's not the case, not in Hollywood (where not one single leading actor has ever openly declared himself to be gay) or in Korea. Additionally, certain actors who have come out as gay publicly have later expressed their regret and misgivings about their openness, pointing to various ways in which their careers have suffered as a result. So the point of "Method" is to make us wonder, feel intrigued and provoked, alight on one interpretation or the other, - and argue with each other.
Simply because there is so much homophobia revealed (see below) in the "it's all about method acting, they aren't really gay, they don't really love each other" thesis, and the passion with which people argue for it, I'm inclined to take the other view - that they do recognise within themselves the potential to love another man and that fear and convention combine to crush them in the end. This is also somewhere in between, and I would suggest that a lot of real life is "somewhere in between". That is, method acting isn't such an overpoweringly influential technique that it bamboozles helpless straight actors into "turning gay" - which is nothing other than the language of heterosexual purity corrupted by homosexual "perversion". Instead, method acting is a powerful dramatic tool focusing on the reality of an unreal character which may also, in the case of these 2 specific men living subject to the constraints of a homophobic world, propel them into realising an erotic potential which is genuinely there - in their characters and in their relationship. But ultimately Korean society has no place for gay men and as we see at the end, the older actor is vanquished, his homosexual potential extinguished, and he is meekly led by the hand back into a silent world of heterosexual "normality". And so maybe this is an ingenious little film, rather bitter, rather sad. I wonder how many ... yes ... gay men who are not able to be out in Korea were involved in making it?
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A piece of art...
Perhaps leaving a review after 6 years, when everything has already been said by other people, is meaningless, but my head is full of contradicting thoughts right now, and there's no real place to express them.The cast was chosen perfectly, the music was spectacular, because I'm a sucker for classical music. The plot...
Art isn't something that everyone can do, and we know it. My future profession is politics, and perhaps I'll have to deceive myself and my commitments, become coldhearted and kinda deprived of the chance to express my true feelings.
The psychology of art is a subject of extensive studies, and it goes without saying that art and emotion are homogenous in some way. A true piece of art can be born only when you lay bare your true feelings, emotions, pain, struggles and etc. The same goes for acting.
Jae Ha is someone who loses himself every time when he gets to play a new role. His character becomes his doppleganger, that's the reason he is a well-known veteran actor. He is devoted to his job, consequently he doesn't bare tardiness and slothfulness from his partners.
Young Woo is exhaused. Girls running around him trying to take a pic or touch him is a usual part of his life and perhaps he was tired of doing the same thing every day. Acting is something that helps a lot in recognizing yourself better, finding our your limits, so he wanted to try something new. I bet he could never know that he would get deeply infatuated with the veteran actor, who himself, despite his age and experience, never knew he could ever fall in love with his acting partner, because his method of acting had never let him down.
Yes, as far as I'm concerned he had feelings for Young Woo, albeit he couldn't accept them till the end. The inner battle he was going through was obvious - him running every day as fast as he can to drop those thoughts out of his head, being startled and speechless after every physical contact he made with Young Woo (the photoshoot, for example, which wasn't a part of the play). During the play he kissed Young Woo and also wasn't a part of it. That was something that he wanted himself.
Young Woo felt like he had been toyed with, because he truly believed that there was something between them. The reason he could perfectly execute his role is that he loved Jae Ha the way Singer loved Walter: madly, deeply, passionately. In the end of the performance he indeed tried to commit suicide,
But the age gap says it all. Being a young man who wants to explore the world and open himself up to new things and a middle aged man who understands the laws of attraction. It's comprehensible why Young Woo was ready to tell everyone about his, their feelings (my feelings, our feelings): he is young, vigorous, ready to overcome obstacles, because is there anything impossible when you're young?
Jae Ha is a middle aged man who can foresee the consequenses of jumping the gun and sacrificing everything. Let's take into account that homosexuality isn't something widely accepted in Korea.
At the same time, I can't deny the fact that he had feelings for Young Woo. When the latter told him that he was ready to tell everyone, he just held his face in his hands and that moment I felt his rue. During the play we could notice the thin line between the play and reality: he mixed up the names, forgot what was a part of a play and what was not. That's why, in the end, Young Woo is the perfect Singer and Jae Ha is just Walter.
I don't believe that there's a happy ending for them despite the open ending which lets us interpret it ourselves. They will go their separate ways but there's no doubt that they left an unerasable trace in each others lives.
I know that my review is as messy as the plot of "Unchain" but that's what it is. Actually, there are more thoughts invading my head right now, but I can't put them in words. This was breathtaking, compelling, and definetly not for everyone due to it's intrication.
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