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Red Wine in the Dark Night
Movie

Red Wine in the Dark Night

2015 • Unknown

Woke Score
4
out of 10

Plot

A boy who gets frustrated in love meets another boy who loses all of his memories and they find some ways to start a new life together.

Overall Series Review

Red Wine in the Dark Night is a 2015 Thai supernatural thriller that deviates sharply from the typical lighthearted BL (Boys' Love) format. The film follows Wine, a young man heartbroken after his relationship with a closeted ex-boyfriend ends in humiliation. Seeking solace, he encounters an enigmatic amnesiac known only as Night, who harbors a dark secret: he requires human blood to survive. The story is a descent into gothic obsession, where Wine's pathological need for love leads him to commit increasingly desperate and immoral acts to protect his new lover and maintain their precarious life together. It explores the dark side of devotion, framing a love that is willing to sacrifice objective morality for the sake of its own existence. The movie's central focus is the centering of an alternative sexuality and profound moral subjectivity, creating a world where intense personal desire overrides all conventional ethics.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics2/10

The narrative focuses on the intense psychological drama and obsession between a few main characters. It is a non-Western film, and the plot does not center on themes of race-based systemic oppression or the vilification of any specific ethnic group. Character actions and their destructive relationships drive the story, not immutable characteristics outside of sexual orientation.

Oikophobia1/10

The movie is a Thai production and its narrative is concentrated on a small-scale, supernatural romantic thriller. The plot does not engage in a critique of Thai civilizational heritage, Western culture, or core national institutions. The conflict is entirely personal and Gothic in nature.

Feminism1/10

The entire central cast and plot focus on male characters and their relationships with each other. Themes of 'Girl Boss' perfection, the emasculation of men, or anti-family messaging regarding motherhood are not a relevant component of the supernatural male-male romance thriller.

LGBTQ+9/10

The entire film is centered on male-male romance and sexual identity. The core drama is initiated by a breakup due to a character's struggle to accept his homosexuality, and the ensuing plot is driven by the protagonist's obsessive need for love from another man. Sexual identity is explicitly the paramount trait that dictates the plot's movement, relationships, and conflicts. The traditional family structure is completely absent from the main characters' lives.

Anti-Theism8/10

The narrative embraces a severe form of moral relativism, where the protagonist's obsessive love for the vampire figure becomes the sole justification for his highly destructive and criminal actions, including kidnapping and murder. This elevates subjective desire over any concept of objective truth or a higher moral law, framing intense emotion as the ultimate moral compass.