Comments on: Movie Review: Bleak Night

By: Lucylee

Lucylee — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:22:54 +0000

I read this review when it came out and only recently managed to find a copy of it to watch. All thanks to JB, I watched an unforgettable, thought-provoking movie.

The review is as beautifully written as the movie. The director did an amazing job of portraying youths at their most confused stage of their lives, finding their identity and longing for acceptance. And the non-linear narrative mworked seamlessly. Most touching scene for me was at the dn, when we saw the scene Dong Yoon told Hee Jun, about him and Ki Tae sitting up in the middle of the night talking. It was a pivotal scene that drew tears from me.

There are no victims, no victors in this movie. They’re all isolated individuals.

It’s a great movie and I recommend it highly to anyone who’s contemplating to watch it.

By: Meiyih

Meiyih — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:26:42 +0000

thank you JB for the recap, I will add this in my forever growin watching list but probably wait till end of tis yr … I haven’t recover from Drive … dat movie still make me sad whn I think of it so guess i need more time b4 i get another dark tone movie

By: poolfish1

poolfish1 — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:05:14 +0000

Thank you javabeans. I just watched it, and now I’m questioning my ability to recover. God, it’s beautiful.

By: Jushi

Jushi — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:10:09 +0000

Just saw it at DramaCrazy. I don’t know if the original is as grainy as the one at DC, but who cares about video quality when the content itself is excellent.

By: aim

aim — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:51:59 +0000

watched this coz of your recommendation jb, thanks! i must say the movie although ‘bleak’ gives us an insight of how precious friendship is, what we do to keep them (from ki-tae’s perspective) and its’ power to destroy even our very selves…

great acting from all the boys in the drama:)

By: SmileyJetson

SmileyJetson — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:37:36 +0000

Incredible review and great insight. Bleak Night is a must-watch, even if we don’t relate to the vicious bullying experience, we all relate to broken friendships.

A little ironic that no matter how much Ki-tae might have hurt Baek-hee and Dong-Yoon, they hurt him so much more. Not excusing his actions at all but really heartbreaking to see how much he cared for them deep down and the price he paid for the power he wanted.

All in all Bleak Night is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Uncompromising and insightful, very well put together and the characters are meshed out and clash together so well. Not a movie I’ll forget any time soon.

By: ramenlee

ramenlee — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:11:33 +0000

Me too, I watched and rewatched again with tears when I see Ki Tae’s face when he trying to mend with his friendship with two friends he thought would care for him and understand him…. Even he heard their denial being his friend he couldn’t bring to explain why it wouldn’t go back what is before….

Agree, it’s an amazing movie how it brought the storytelling…

By: ajj

ajj — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:24:26 +0000

The Korean title of this movie ''The Lookout'' is even more fitting than ''Bleak Night'' though it's still a good one considering how bleak the movie seemed.The three bestriends failed to be each other's lookout, it's heartbreaking to see them three breaking up. Though things werent explained much even at the end, I kind of get most of it except for Doo yoon's girlfriend.Dont know if what Ki Tae said was true and if Ki Tae did met up with her and told her about what Doo yon said. It's a puzzle to me since this is what actually led to why Doo yon said all that to Ki Tae which prompted him to take his own life. I feel bad for Doo yon actually knowing how Ki Tae see him and how dependent Ki Tae is to him emotionally, he must be feeling guilty all throughout his life which totally sucks. Baek hee on the other had some kind of nicer farewell with Ki Tae with that baseball. Ki Tae could be really menacing yes and we'll never know how much of it was pretendind but he was an endearing friend. He was misguided and tortured by his loneliness and being motherless.If only his two friends did not gave up on him and wished they'd understood him better and guided him more.

By: dewaanifordrama

dewaanifordrama — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:10:25 +0000

Welll, yet another film to be added to the quickly growing list of movies I have to see…beautiful piece javabeans!

By: zzzmadison

zzzmadison — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:05:12 +0000

A wonderful piece of review. I love your paragraph about our fragmented memory, so beautifully-phrased!