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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.Was this review helpful to you?
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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!Was this review helpful to you?
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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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Where do I even start? I started this movie on a whim with only the trailer to go off of, and I did not regret it one bit! Once you start this movie you will not want to stop. I don't even know how to describe this movie, psychological drama, twisted love? The twists and turns this movie will take you on are phenomenal! Let me get into some detail...
STORY:
It was a little fast-paced and I felt they could have slowed it down a bit more, this is the ONLY reason why this movie didn't get a 10/10 from me. But other than that the story was amazing and it had me on my toes the whole time wondering what was going to happen next. I love a good plot twist, and this was everything I could have asked for! I don't know who wrote this script but I will bow down to them! This was genius.
ACTING/CAST:
Wow! The acting in this movie was mind-blowing! Honestly, the actors are what made this movie in my opinion. The way they portrayed their characters' personalities, emotions, and facial expressions had my jaw hung in awe. I could feel the emotion from this movie like it was my own, honestly. That is not an easy feat!
MUSIC:
The music they chose did a great job of setting an atmosphere of happiness one second and then tension the next. It really upped the level of production value in my eyes.
REWATCH VALUE:
I'd rewatch this just to make my friends go through the journey I just went through watching this! It's one of those movies you need to watch again at least a second time to look back and see the small details you missed.
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The movie had me thinking, a lot. I was not informed on method acting before I watched this film, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect from a film called "Method". Honestly, I came for the gay. Especially since I saw that it was Korean and the cast list surprised me as well, so I wanted some confirmation if it really was as gay as I expected it to be.
Let me just say, By the end of the film, I was left with questions, so many of them. The chemistry between the leads is amazing, it even fooled me. I was drawn into their method acting, that I completely forgot it was just that. Acting. I rewatched the film a few months after, wanting to know what exactly it was that had happened, now more well informed in what exactly method acting was. This piece of information helped me tremendously with understanding the concept of the film.
The title suits the film, and actually gives the viewer a good grasp of what the film is about. The pacing of the film is nice, starting from the auditions, to the preparations of the act (which is where the majority of the movie takes place) and ends with the act being shown. The time period of the movie isn't that long, and everything happens rather quickly, which is great as it keeps one on their feet. I've never seen a movie about method acting before, and this movie fascinated me. The idea of an actor being so engraved in their role, that they manage to lock out the reality around them, they forget their true identities because their mindset has been deeply infatuated by the role they're playing. It was really interesting.
As mentioned earlier, I got fooled too by Youngwoo, just like Jaeha did. And it didn't even phase me until I realized that oh shit, everything was an act the entire time.
The reason for the low rewatch value, is due to the fact that I don't see myself rewatching this more than 3 times. I've seen it twice, but after the second time of finally understanding the plot, I don't see myself enjoying the film as much as I did the first few times. This is my only personal negativity about it. Everything else sold me.
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I very highly recommend Method, it's fantastic.
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Attempted suicide.
I hope people realize that scene is there before watching it.
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