Movie Digest
Jina is the top employee in a call center of a credit card company. She avoids forming deep bonds with others and prefers to live and work alone. Her obnoxious next-door neighbor, who would try to communicate with her, is discovered dead several days later in his apartment. Jina was shaken and tried to change her life around.
The Feel-Good Part
This film has a fascinating and engaging narrative that smoothly touches on themes outside of social constructs.
The Disappointing Factor
There is minimal effect on important matters portrayed in the movie. The plot tends to get confusing because of various points of contention highlighted.
In-Depth Analysis
Aloners is Hong Seong-eun’s directorial feature debut. The picture is slow-paced and shot in greys and pastels, conveying a depressing atmosphere. This film looks at how technology isolates us and how we might embrace this trend. There is a distinction between private and professional life in the plot shows. Rather than depending on melodrama to tell the story, director Hong Seong-eun uses his actors and minimalist scene staging. While the film is told entirely from Jina’s point of view, there is some fascinating subtext in portraying her more socially inclined peers. It becomes a considerably more timely film than it may have been. Feels especially pertinent after prolonged periods of quarantine, when some have adjusted to their newfound loneliness while others have deteriorated without a continual sense of connection. Aloners is a brutally honest film that deconstructs social pretensions with flair.
Star Power
Gong Seung Yeon plays Jina in the movie. Her performance is brilliant. Gong achieves the appropriate combination of contentedness and an unspoken undertone of depression in this portrayal of mediocrity.
Overall Opinion
It is a good movie that everyone can relate to their own lives. Highly recommend it!
