Heralded for his honest portrayals of homosexuality in Korea, openly gay director Lee Song Hee-il cemented his solid reputation garnered from his 2006 debut feature length “No Regret” with the tryptic “One Night and Two Days.” Melodramatic yet genuine, his movies never shy away from depicting the ostracism that comes with being such a minority in Korea, oftentimes embedding subtle commentaries on the pressurised academic settings rife found in modern Korea within them. In “Night Flight,” the thematically rich follow-up to his successful trilogy, Lee Song continues his broad insight into the lives of disillusioned and disenfranchised youths, following three formerly tight-knit students as they each begin to pursue vastly different paths. After debuting at the (64th) Berlin International Film Festival, “Night Flight” continued to be a mainstay on the festival scene, creating faint buzz for its occasionally shocking forthrightness. Though not without its hiccups, Lee-song’s most assertive project to...
- 7/12/2020
- by Nathan Sartain
- AsianMoviePulse
“The Lover” is a rarity in k-dramaland in its frank and open approach to sexuality, especially to homosexuality which is rarely encountered in popular culture and in particular television dramas and music videos (while there are certainly a number of MVs that have Lgbt storylines and have been very successful, the same cannot be said for those by openly gay idols with the exception of Holland’s “Neverland” Mv). The fact that homosexuality is still taboo and criminalised in South Korea is at odds with its economic success and modernity. Coming out can ruin a career or end a career before it is even begun. However, while representing homosexual sex is taboo, heterosexuality is also carefully regulated in kdramas. Generally, sex happens off screen and usually only when the heterosexual couple have declared their love for each other. And even then, it seems to take place when the couple are...
- 3/27/2020
- by Colette Balmain
- AsianMoviePulse
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