2021/04/30
The opening scene of Not Out has the distinct look of an amateur sports broadcast. We see the big field, and we see the happy winning team. Yet writer/director
Lee Jung-gon instead has the bulk of the runtime take place off the field after the victory, as we see young shot Gwang-ho (played by
Jung Jae-gwang) make a risky decision on impulse and then struggle with the reality that he may not, in fact, play professional baseball as he always dreamed.
The dark foreboding tone of Not Out has a lot in common with Baseball Girl from last year. Both movies have a traditionally light-hearted and positive feel-good premise where deficiencies in going professional are typically depicted as due to a lack of effort. Yet the actual tonal focus in both films is on how dumb luck and petty interpersonal drama are considerably more important to success in this field than the canned fairy tales we re told as children would have us believe.
The Long Night (긴 밤)- Kim Jung-min-XIV (김정민) My Son - Short (소풍같이) - Jeon Seung-pyo (전승표) Soon-young (순영) - Park Seo-young (박서영) Us, day and night (우리의 낮과 밤) - Kim So-hyoung
(김소형) 37-1 Inheung-ri (인흥리 37-1) - Kim Jeehye (김지혜) Georgia (조지아) - Jayil Pak (제이 박) Roof-top star (Ok, 탑스타) - Lee Kun-hwi (이건휘)
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Along with a star-studded nomination list featuring K-drama stars like Yoo Ah-in, Lee Byung-hun, Lee Jung-jae, Jung Woo-sung, Kim Hee-ae, Ra Mi-ran, Shin Min-ah, Jeon Do-yeon, Jung Yu-mi, Park Hye-su, and more, the award show has notched it up a level by inviting K-pop supergroup GOT7 s Bambam to host the glamorous evening.
Cherry on top, SM Entertainment s vocalist BoA and K-pop group Monsta X will be setting the stage on fire with some powerful performances.