Red Wine in the Dark Night (2015)

WARNING: This may destroy Pharm/Bank's image but this will prove Fluke's acting range

I had put off watching this movie for a long time because of the odd premise and the reviews I read. But I really missed Fluke's acting and this one was conveniently on Netflix, so I went for me.

Oh boy.

While watching it, I found it intriguing (and disturbing), but as the ending credits roll, I looked back and found it hard to pinpoint the key message of the film.

What did I just watch?

What was the movie trying to convey? It left me scratching my head.

Fluke's acting was impeccable. As the OST song (sorta) went, "Even if it's wrong, I'll still watch it for you".

A a character, Wine was a bag of contradictions. The opening scene set a trap for viewers by painting Wine as a victim - being told by his loved one, right after s*x, that he had never loved Wine and that he was just using Wine for his ass. And that coloured my vision of Wine's actions. Even though what Wine subsequently did was clearly wrong, I couldn't put it against him. To my horror, I was screaming for Wine not to release Tee because his trust will surely be betrayed again.

But Wine is not a victim. Even in the case of Boy, Wine was the one who approached Boy. They were willing buyer and seller (gosh, this film!!) of s*x and benefits.

What about Night? Did he really love Wine? Or was it also a for-benefits type of relationship?

Towards the end of the movie, I had the idea that perhaps Night isn't real. Perhaps he was just a fragment of Wine's imagination. Because he sorely wanted to find someone who loves him and will never leave him, crushed by the prank Tee pulled on him in the deserted building, Wine just imagined a person who's survival relied entirely on him. The stakes are high - perfect to exhibit mutual love and commitment. Also perfect for revenge against those who did him wrong. We also see Night wearing the same clothes as Wine. Is he an alter-ego, the hidden, ruthless side of Wine? Is that why he has to be hidden in the dark and cannot go under the sun? This would also explain the illogical final scene - the guitar and Night appearing in the cell out of the blue.

But then I recall that even outside of Wine's memories, there was someone who saw Night (the student at the phone booth). So perhaps that split personality theory doesn't stand either.

I'm really confused, but not motivated to think deeper into the movie.

The highlight of the film is definitely Fluke's acting. Although this was made several years back in the early years of Fluke's acting career, he did a very good job in his portrayal of this multi-layered character. Gentle and passionate towards Night, guilty yet cruel towards Tee, sly and manipulative towards Boy - he was all of that, and more. A psychopath? I shudder.

(Bonus is the kissing scenes. One could really feel the heat of their desire from through the screen. Very professional!)

The last Fluke work I watched was My Bromance, and I was shocked by what I saw in this film. What versatility!

Perhaps the theme of the film is best summarised in the lyric of the OST:
"Please know that someone can do everything just for you. Because I love you with all my heart, nothing can stop me. Even if it's wrong, I'll still do it for you."

It's a romantic idea to think that one can do anything and everything for their loved ones. But what if that "everything" is wrong? And what defines what is wrong?

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Oh dear lord, this should have come with a warning! It's seriously fecked up & an epic fail on every level.

I mean...Come on? Really? What the hell was that even supposed to be?

Notes:
*Terrible sex scenes*cringe*
*Porn without plot & it wasn't even good porn. Oh no! Because if it was good porn then I might have just accepted that it fulfilled it's intended purpose. I mean, nobody watches porn for the plot now do they? But it couldn't even get that right.
The problem was that the sex scenes were god awful! & I mean really really bad & the kissing.... well that was even worse.
*Total cheese! Ridiculously corny.
*No chemistry between characters.
*Just weird & cringe worthy.

I can't believe I just wasted a couple of hours of my life watching this.

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Devo essere sincera diciamo che non è il mio genere di film.
Ma vedere Fluke Natouch Siripongthon in questo ruolo è stato davvero strano passando all’innocenza allo psicopatico.
Lui che è sempre stato l’innocenza su tutti i suoi drama BL, la purezza la persona da proteggere.
Questa trasformazione in questo ruolo davvero spettacolare.
La storia un po' complicata da seguire, ma una buona recitazione di tutti gli attori.
Il finale non molto chiaro l’ascia alla propria immaginazione la decisione finale, sperando anche che si sia un continuo.

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I did not vote much for music, because I kept the sound off the whole time. My bad.

When I first started this show I expected some BL that would wow me, something I would want to rewatch. But what I got wasn't exactly that. There are some slight sex scenes, which i'm usually okay with, but they were just too much for me. It wasn't the fact that they were having sex, but the fact that the main character did it with multiple people.
Also, one of the characters threw me off. He grossed me out. Boy, a man who is most likely way older than Wine, confessed his love and ended up having sex. This was probably the part that made me dislike it the most.
Another thing that made me rate it lower than it could've been was how creepy Wine was acting when he retrieved blood for Night. I won't say how he was being creepy, for the people who haven't read it yet, but it was too much for me.
Wine smiling all the time was weird also.
I didn't like the guy who recognized Night, because it messed up the ship, but that was the least of my worries when I watched this show.

Other than those few setbacks, the story was really good. The writing had a lot of potential, and the acting was good too. If the parts I did not like were replaced with softer versions (or taken out and replaced entirely)  it might've been better, but that is my opinion. This show is not for people with weak hearts, like me. It is for those who enjoy hot, bloody, violence filled, and creepy shows. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone starting BL or still in their beginning stages.

Then again, I did not finish this show. I was unable to finish, even though I got till a little more than twenty minutes were left, because I ran out of time and the bad parts were too much for me.

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I really enjoyed this movie. I really enjoyed the acting, especially Fluke's. I have seen him in other things and I've never seen him play such a scary role, but he really pulled it off. Since I've seen him in Until We Meet Again and My Bromance I was not expecting him to pull off how crazy he is at the end. I knew he was a little off since he just let some random guy lick him when he injured himself but when he hits Boy with that bat I was genuinely shell shocked. I really don't know what to think about the ending of the movie though... They talk about how if you believe in something enough it will happen. But since he kept the guitar with him is it implied that Night came back to him when he is in the jail cell and they leave together? Or is he just crazy and he hallucinated Night coming back to him? Also why the frick did Night get into that trash can? I know that Wine popped out of it previously but what was he thinking by hiding in that trash can? He told Wine not to look for him so he wasn't expecting to be found... Was he just planning to die there and he heard Wine getting arrested and he went to go save Wine after he got arrested? If he was just going to save Wine why did he leave Wine in the first place? If you have any theories I'd love to hear them. I am so confused. I dislike open endings.

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I found this movie through an "Until We Meet Again on crack" video on YouTube. There were some parts of the story where I got confused and slightly grossed out. For one, Boy is clearly older than Wine by many years and I found it slightly weird. I also viewed the fact that Wine was sleeping with 3 guys slightly gross. As a fan of Fluke (Natouch) Siripongthon, I am used to him being a shy character so did not expect what I saw. I wasn't aware that Mild Suttinut Uengtrakul was also in this movie so when I saw him, I was happy as I was a fan of him from "TharnType" and "What The Duck". I was impressed with his acting as I was in the two series I have seen him in. I rarely paid attention to the music so didn't give it a 10/10. The only reason I probably wouldn't rewatch it, is because I know what the ending is and I have a short attention span to movies/series if I know the ending.

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