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Method korean movie review
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Method
20 people found this review helpful
by Valentine Bebe
Feb 3, 2018
Completed 2
Overall 4.0
Story 1.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 1.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

Method started out like it should've been different. Method is not 'genius'. Method was a film that potential but was executed extremely weak. It’s like the screenwriter had this beautiful story between an idol turn stage actor and an experienced senior in the same industry and basically said fuck it.
As a gay person, constantly seeing tragic storylines and endings for gay characters gets tiresome. when I saw Method, looked at the cover, read the plot, I was giddy. I thought to myself 'Oh my gosh I get to see a beautiful, melodramatic story about actors taking their method acting to new heights. And it did begin as something like that, however not even halfway through, it dissolves into the usual drama tropes and I had so many questions by the end.

Why couldn't they be happy? Why did he have to be married? What that necessary? The little twist that we kind of has isn't exactly one because you know what you're getting. There are wonderful moments like our two leads practically eloping at a beach, the entirety of the film was like that. I wanted more emotional moments like their first script reading where tears fell are the closeness of touching for the time, but we don't get that--instead, we get the same drama tropes, and that's disappointing. While the music (I actually can’t even remember anything from the score) and story of Method was at all not memorable, the acting, given what they had was tremendous. Having a rookie and a veteran actor act together seems like the only good decision made in the making of this film and the leads, in particular, give a story without substance salvation (ex. the beautiful ass beach scene like what COULD’VE had)
All in all, I wouldn't recommend watching and using your time on Method, it's not as good as it can be. It's not as if I'm a film snob but I can tell between an obviously well-round film one that isn't.

From what I saw from a lot of people when commenting on the film and in review talked about how much gayness isn’t seen a lot in Korean media which is true for the most part clinging to every cent of representation is not what I want. I want something that is consumable and I want a beautiful story depicting gay love just straight love can be shown as and this movie just wasn’t. Issa a no from me dawg.
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