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Drama

Aloners

- Living alone is fine, but being alone is hard.

Jina is the top employee at a credit card company call center. She avoids building close relationships, choosing instead to live and work alone – until she is suddenly tasked with training a new recruit.

Release Date : 2021-05-19

Language :Korean

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Korean Academy of Film ArtsKorean Film Council

Production Country : South Korea

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Gong Seung-yeon

Character Name : Ji-na

Original Name : 공승연

Gender : Female

Jeong Da-eun

Character Name : Soo-jin

Original Name : 정다은

Gender : Female

Seo Hyun-woo

Character Name : Seong-hoon

Original Name : 서현우

Gender : Male

Geum Hannah

Character Name : Team Leader

Original Name : 금해나

Gender : Female

Kim Mo-beom

Character Name : Neighbour

Original Name : Kim Mo-beom

Gender : Male

Park Jeong-hak

Character Name : Father

Original Name : 박정학

Gender : Male

Ju Seok-tae

Character Name : Lawyer Jeong

Original Name : 주석태

Gender : Male

Ahn Jeong-bin

Character Name : Plainclothes Police Officer

Original Name : Ahn Jeong-bin

Gender : Male

Kwak Min-kyu

Character Name : Time Machine Man (voice)

Original Name : Kwak Min-kyu

Gender : Male

Kim Gwi-rye

Character Name : Mother

Original Name : Kim Gwi-rye

Gender : Male

Reviews

B

BornKnight

@BornKnight

2023-11-14

A 25% mixture of drama, 25% of psychological thriller and 50% of sobrenatural story. Korea already established itself as a country that know how to make good movies with good stories. While this one have characteristics not too well know in the west - aka people that lives a so lonely live because of work, distancing themselves from even their parents - it shows a reality into a strange form to most of us of the western countries. The directress is Hong Sung-eun which had before some small success movies inside South Korea. The basic premise is a hard working CC call-center girls that lives a lonely life, not knowing even her neighbors. She have a distant life from their parents whom she talks by the way of a phone and a remote camera circuit, watching the daily life of her dad and her sick mother. Everything changes when along while receiving the duty of train a new recruit for her workplace (that means that she must have close connections to teach the work), she learns that the neighbor she saw smoking outside his apartment have died before she saw him, by suicide. Enter the supernatural element on the movie. To worse things even more her mother dies too. From here the movie lost some of the impact and discussion - we can resume that after all this she learns that she can have a live, she must have a live to not become a drone, but not much changes other than the closing relation with her father and depart of the new girl. She gets a new neighbor, that shares the same smoking patterns and talks of her deceased neighbor, and even she starts to take them. I don't know if it is the culture gap that made me lose the interest on the scrip (I am sure of it), but I found it a bit previsible and it could be worked a bit more. It is a movie than is well done but more oriented to oriental culture or workaholics. A 7,0 out of 10,0 / B score.