The Loner (2008) (DVD) (Taiwan Version) DVD Region 3
Ko Eun Ah (Actor)
| Jung Yoo Suk (Actor)
| Chae Min Seo (Actor)
| Park Jae Sik (Director)
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January 27, 2009
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Hikikomori – Dark Empathized Sorrows
Hikikomori – Dark Empathized Sorrows
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“Loner” is a very dark Korean psychological ghost horror and certainly not for highly sensitive people. It features shocking and violent scenes of sexual abuse, suicide and self-harm and definitely merits an 18 rating! But its not just gore, this horror is additionally charged by sad emotional despair. Early in the film a bullied schoolgirl is forced by tormentors to steal garments from a clothing boutique, finalizing with desperation and wretchedness. Caught and brutally beaten by the shop owner, the girl falls into terrible depths of despair at her constant forms of bullying. Locking herself away in her dank bedroom she becomes a mental wreckage. Disheveled with insects seemingly crawling inside her skin, she finally confronts her bullying tormentor. What follows is a bloody, shocking and grim amalgamation of this film’s harsh theme about tortured souls - hikikomori.
Protagonist Soo Na also falls into this dark spiral of despair. Locking herself away and dropping into similar emotional destitution. But this isn’t just about social disconnection and introspective depression, but of a tragic and twisted soul’s suffering and need to release pressure and retribution through the dispossessed. Soo Na never leaves her bedroom and becomes empathetically transformed by 'someone', subject to a malevolence routed in extreme socially related sickness and sorrow. A sad rejected and tortured soul. “Loner” is a ghost story, but its focus on the love tragedy, sexual abuse and orphaned themes behind Soo Na’s bedroom horrors is what makes “Loner” compelling. Visuals are equally disturbing. The family house tarnished with grey walls reflect the decremented and desperate Soo Na and a blue lit school room of open windows on a storm filled night, all make for intense atmosphere. Visual thin lines of psychological/supernatural trauma, deciphering the actual to the imaginary in what is actually perceived by the disturbed protagonist. Eun Ah Ko plays a convincingly disturbed Soo Na. The “Tale of Two Sisters” type music though needed darker discordant tones this time (something like Gary Numan’s “Jagged” album?) to reflect the awful isolation. But “Loner” is an excellent K-horror. Like “Hansel and Gretel” (K-horror) its similarly disturbing by social concern, latched to a wicked upper hand of opportunist abuse. Dark, disturbing, tragic stuff. But be warned, this film is extremely distressing! |
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