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White Night (2012 film)

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Director
  
Leesong Hee-il

Film series
  
Leesong Hee-il’s trilogy

Language
  
6.4/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Country
  
South Korea

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Writer
  
Hee-il Leesong (screenplay)

Release date
  
September 2012 (2012-09) (Vancouver Film Festival)November 15, 2012 (2012-11-15) (South Korea)

Initial release
  
November 15, 2012 (South Korea)

Music director
  
Lee Yeong-hoon, Max Richter, Chris Garneau

Cast
  
Yi Yi-kyung
(Tae-jun),
Won Tae-Hee
(Won-gyu),
Kim Hyun-sung
(Do-yun)

Similar movies
  
Related Leesong Hee-il movies

Won-gyu returns to Seoul seeking revenge on the thugs who committed a hate crime against him.

White Night (2012 film) movie scenes  Lesbian Gay Film Festival LLGFF was on on London s Southbank and due to a tight schedule the only film available to book was White Night or Baek Ya

Baek-Ya is a Korean film about a homosexual man returning to Korea with unresolved past conflicts, who spends time with a new man.

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Won-gyu, a steward, returns to Seoul 2 years after he left with a painful memory. He meets Tae-jun acquainted on the Web and they have a special night at the place of Won-gyu's bad memory. A queer film by Leesong hee-il inspired by an actual case of random street assault by a homophobe in Jong-no.

Plot

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The plot appears to follow a man who returns to Korea for one night. He has been away for an extended period of time. At a cafe, he meets up with a past love or friend he left behind when he left Korea. The mousetached man is still upset about the past event, and perhaps also by him having left. He claims that he is involved someone different, as does the main character - "a 35 year old in Germany". Equally wounded, tears begin to form in the eye of the main character, and he abruptly leaves the cafe without saying goodbye, when his friend or past love goes back in to make another order.

Later in the evening, he is approached by a man in a red jacket. They quickly become acquainted and their communications escalate towards a sexual nature. He notices a scar on the back of the main characters shoulder. The main character becomes tentative and touchy, and decides suddenly he does not want to do anything sexual with the man in red, to the man in reds confusion. However, he still wants his company, and so after some small bickering, they head to a bar.

Suddenly the main character recognises a man in the bar, and chases after him, as they run through urban streets. The man in red follows, despite not understanding the situation. It is later revealed the main character was stabbed in a homophobic attack, and the man he chased after knows the man who stabbed him, and his current location - the pool hall. The man he met at the cafe in the beginning was also attacked. The main character states it is the reason he left Korea, as it shook his life up, and outed his sexuality publicly, leaving him stigmatised and outcast. They both head to the pool hall, despite the man in reds discouragement, and together they punch up the man who stabbed him a long time ago.

Afterwards, despite shallow bickering between them, and not being comfortable being open about their emotions, it becomes clear they feel affection and compassion towards one another. They head to a park and discuss their pasts. This time, when asked, the main character states he is seeing "a 24 year old in Germany," which would seem to imply he has lied both times and therefore is actually single - too hurt to become close to anyone since. They have sex and before parting ways the man in red gives him his number. The film ends on a cliffhanger with the main character staring at a payphone from a taxi, thinking about calling him.

References

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