Ki-tae's father goes around his son's high school friends trying to find the truth behind what happened to his son and why it happened. Instead of finding a clear answer, he finds excuses, silence and just no clear answer. All the while we see in flashbacks Ki-tae's days in high school and how his relationship with his best two friends develop.
"Bleak Night" is a really good movie, with great direction and really good acting that offers a, cough cough, bleak and realistic look on growing up in those difficult years of adolescence and the difficulty of accepting oneself and other's disagreements with one's views of things. Ki-tae, Dong-yoon and Hee-june are really good friends and are almost always together, going on dates with three girls together, playing baseball together, always a well blended team. However, little cracks start appearing in their relationship and we soon see Ki-tae bullying Hee-june or dumping his best two friends to hung out with the 'bad kids' from class. Interspersed with all this, we have Ki-tae's father quest to get an answer to an impossible question. Sung-hyun Yoon does a great job directing the actors, and the only thing that can be said against the style is that it can be too cold and detached.
A great look on adolescence, male relationships and violence, in this movie we get to see a world crumbling and innocence being lost.
"Bleak Night" is a really good movie, with great direction and really good acting that offers a, cough cough, bleak and realistic look on growing up in those difficult years of adolescence and the difficulty of accepting oneself and other's disagreements with one's views of things. Ki-tae, Dong-yoon and Hee-june are really good friends and are almost always together, going on dates with three girls together, playing baseball together, always a well blended team. However, little cracks start appearing in their relationship and we soon see Ki-tae bullying Hee-june or dumping his best two friends to hung out with the 'bad kids' from class. Interspersed with all this, we have Ki-tae's father quest to get an answer to an impossible question. Sung-hyun Yoon does a great job directing the actors, and the only thing that can be said against the style is that it can be too cold and detached.
A great look on adolescence, male relationships and violence, in this movie we get to see a world crumbling and innocence being lost.