"Bleak Night" offers Twisted Drama about Friendship
>> Feb 1, 2011
The upcoming South Korean drama thriller "Bleak Night" is director Yoon Sung-hyun’s feature debut, which already won him the New Currents Award from Pusan International Film Festival. This contemporary teenage drama film about three friends in a boys’ high school also the most popular one at the currently KAFA SHOWCASE. Watch the english subbed trailer for the film after the break.
"Bleak Night" begins as a mystery but provides an in-depth look into the growing process of children who have yet to mature and the tragic reality that they are unable to perceive the pain of others. In a time when friendship and wounds reside too close together, they resort to violence as they demand understanding of each other. At the base of it all lie the ruins created by the Korean education system. It is a time when growing up in Korean society means the perpetrator, the victim, and the mediator are scarred, all in the name of growing up. When a student dies, his father starts investigating how and why it happened. One of the three friends is the perpetrator, another is the victim, while the third is enraged at how their friendship was shattered. Then it is discovered that the dead student was actually the perpetrator and not the victim. How could this be?
"Bleak Night" begins as a mystery but provides an in-depth look into the growing process of children who have yet to mature and the tragic reality that they are unable to perceive the pain of others. In a time when friendship and wounds reside too close together, they resort to violence as they demand understanding of each other. At the base of it all lie the ruins created by the Korean education system. It is a time when growing up in Korean society means the perpetrator, the victim, and the mediator are scarred, all in the name of growing up. When a student dies, his father starts investigating how and why it happened. One of the three friends is the perpetrator, another is the victim, while the third is enraged at how their friendship was shattered. Then it is discovered that the dead student was actually the perpetrator and not the victim. How could this be?
