Alone

Alone develops a mysteriously moody story of two females, a woman and her daughter. Only the two of them live in a spacious apartment, coming and going in limited spaces, like an empty building and the subway where four sides are blocked like a box. A beautiful dancer lives alone with her little daughter. The metallic skyscrapers and the empty space are cold and deserted. The dancer and her daughter are indifferent and cold to each other. There’s no sign of other people on the street or in the subway, and no noise is heard. When extreme loneliness fills the city surrounding them, the dancer dances to overcome her loneliness. Meanwhile, the little daughter attacks her mother bitterly for not acting her age. She shouts that she can see a stranger invade their perfect world, making her mother terrified. And the horror extends to the question of the daughter’s existence. A nice mix of haunted house horror and psychodrama, it’s an avant-garde movie that symbolizes a woman’s guilt and the temptation of suicide. (Busan International Film Festival)