The sinopses may seem to be about something else
If you expect a thriller, this movie isn't about it. But I really enjoyed the movie. The atmosphere delivers well the feeling of the main character, that represents how many people may feel on a society. The acting is really good as well. This movie development is a bit slow for some, so take time and try to extract the message that it is giving. I'll rewatch it for sure. I think that the least you know, the best when watching this one, because you can let it take you where it wants to.I came across the trailer of tis movie because of a YouTube add and it made me curious about this Mubi film.
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The price of loneliness
Aloners is a film written and directed by Hong Sung Eun, the only full-length film she’s done thus far. Which is disappointing because I quite liked her take on the price of loneliness and would love to see what else she has to offer. This film followed a young woman unable to reach past her own defenses to connect with anyone around her, further pushing her deeper inside herself.Jin Ah works at a credit card call center where she has to daily deal with rude customers and a frustrated time traveler. She lives alone. Eats alone. Smokes alone. Rides the bus alone. At a job where the employees have been zombified by the mind-numbing monotony, she works alone. Her relentless routine is challenged when she’s ordered to train Su Jin, the bubbly new employee. Su Jin has moved from her hometown to work in the bigger city and has no friends or family, leaving her alone. The only family Jin Ah has is her estranged father who had abandoned their family and swindled her as well. Jin Ah’s equally reclusive neighbor is found a week after he died buried under a fallen wall of magazines in his apartment. Suddenly and achingly, Jin Ah is forced to face her solitary existence.
Gong Seung Yeon perfectly captured Jin Ah’s tightly wound personality walking through her life where every day was just the same. Jin Ah was a prisoner in a castle, surrounded by a crocodile infested moat, a prison she had created herself. Earphones ever present to ward off any potential human contact, her only companions were her phone and television. A new neighbor asked, “Do you make a habit of being pissed off all the time?” And that was the key to Jin Ah, she wasn’t just an introvert, she was a tight ball of repressed anger and pain. Each new hit cracked away at her immaculately structured defenses
Being alone is something everyone faces at one time or another, chronic loneliness is a silent destructive force and the pain of it was palpable with the characters in this film. Director Hong slowly and subtly showed varying viewpoints on how people deal with loss and grief and the importance of human connection to help heal those wounds. If you are a fan of slow, slice of life films this might be one to try.
1 Aug 2024
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Relatable Yet Insipid
The movie was rather relatable in how lonely the character's life was lived however, I will say it did not feel like the movie picked up until the last 15 minutes, when she makes the call with Jina it really felt like it was going to go somewhere in which the character finally allows herself a moment to breathe and the angst and tension with her dad will be released however the ending is rather lackluster, I understand the character and her mindset, in fact, I am quite literally her, however, the film was making this large buildup with her father and the girl she was training only for it to fall flat. Although, she resolves the conflict with Jina, the one with her father feels unresolved due to the fact she doesn't meet up with him nor is she able to have an actual conversation with him about how she feels about her mother's death (a major catalyst for her break through on the phone with her dad). The ending just feels unfinished and yet way too long at the same time.Was this review helpful to you?
La historia es super lenta y sientes que no pasa el tiempo, a pesar de no ser una película muy larga, la historia se hace interminable. También, viendo la película, e incluso después de terminarla, no entendí totalmente cuál es el mensaje o el fin de realizarla. Incluso pienso que el accidente que tiene el vecino es un elemento que han utilizado para intentar atraer a la audiencia, sin embargo, al igual que la historia, no tiene ningún sentido en la historia. Supuestamente su sentido es alterar a la protagonista, pero no creo que fue algo tan grave para ella como para afectarla o alterarla.
En el caso de la protagonista, la venden como una persona que prefiere estar sola y tranquila, sin embargo, la han retratado más como una persona apática que no sabe cómo tratar con las personas y la sociedad. Tú puedes preferir estar sola que en compañía pero eso no quita que sepas relacionarte con los demás.
La verdad es que cuando descubrí esta película, la sinopsis me llamó mucho la atención y tenía muchas ganas de verla, pero ha sido un fracaso y una desilusión total. Sin embargo, eso no quiere decir que no te pueda gustar, por lo tanto te animo si quieres darle una oportunidad.
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