Room Alone (2014)

So... Room Alone ist about people (students) who are somehow lonely. It tackles exactly 10 stories of 10 habitants of a condo.

I kind of liked it? It wasn't extremely special in some kind but it is a really good lakorn in it's genre. These days the theme internet gets more and more attention in movies, series and books. And this lakorn was about it. Facebook, Instagram, Line and Tinder (!) were the means to get to know each other to communicate with each other. You could see yourself in the characters.

They were ordinary stories every could relate to one of them or more and the actors did a good job, as everything seemed really natural, they were just some students who felt lonely in this society.

The music was good for those pats that I listened to them, it didn't disturb the flow or was annoying (like in some tw & k-dramas).

You should watch it if you want more GMM, youth dramas, light fluffy dramas :D

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So not really your story following friends. Not even the traditional story of lovey dovey couples and happy, or even dramatic, endings. No.

What this series was was a non-traditional (for dramas of this class) look at life as affected by social media. SM played a crucial role in each and every life in this series, as it does today. How many of us are not affected by Twitter, InstaGram, Facebook, Line, YouTube and Tinder? How many of us do not live on these media and don't even know our next door neighbour?

A little dramatic at times, the characters are totally relatable in our modern context. The fact that they are University students and a little more mature than the other dramas being based in High School was quite a plus.

Again, I must hand it to the Thai's: they have product placement down. This time the adverts, ahm I mean product placements, were not quite as annoyingly placed as other drams which shall go unmentioned, but they are still quite noticeable. Good job though!

All in all a good drama to keep you busy in the downtime between Tweets, IMs, Lines and such. Well worth the watch!

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The plot and the acting in this series are much more convincing than I'd have expected. This could be troubling for those looking for clean, happy endings; however, they do mix in their share of happy endings as well. There's a clear thread connecting the various stories with, to me, a satisfying payoff in the finale. These characters have original quirks and personalities you're not obligated to like; they're flawed.

In all honesty, I picked up the series for the cast. Although I had to wait a while for Off's proper story, I thought it was worth it and was impressed by his acting at such an early point in his career.

All that said, I did have some complaints. For instance, I thought some of the queer representation was poor. Although her friends redeemed themselves some, Min was emotionally abused by them. The comments they make throughout Min's episode about the prospects of fluctuating or fluid sexuality were damaging not only to Min but to some viewers' perceptions of gay women. It's not to say that they don't represent some real views, but those are in the minority. And in a community so little represented, it's maligning to make that some of the so few depictions people will see.

I also thought episode nine was a little ridiculous but I could tolerate it.

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Mais atual, impossível!

A série é de 2014, mas a temática não poderia ser mais atual. Ela fala basicamente solidão. Não é solitude, e realmente a solidão... sobre pessoas que moram sozinhas eu um prédio (aps n° 401 ao 410) e outras que fazem faculdade no mesmo lugar, ou tem algum tipo de ligação com algum deles. De uma forma bem interessante, a série vai conectando a cada EP os personagens, conseguindo dar protagonismo novo a cada capítulo. A solidão da qual a série trata, é de um mundo onde as pessoas estão vivendo "o advento das redes sociais", e muito embora se conheçam, sejam vizinhos ou colegas, cada um deles se sente sozinho e usa as redes para preencher seus vazios de alguma forma.

A série aborda temas muito importantes, como o casal do EP 1 (Jaegun e Terk) que não conseguem expressar um ao outro seus sentimentos e fazem uma grande confusão. Ou quando Neptune de forma ilógica pede a seu namorado pra ele postar em suas redes que é gay para afastar as mulheres dele, sem imaginar que isso iria fazer com que ele se interessasse por um outro homem. Ou quando um jovem conhece e se interessa por uma garota na internet que na vdd é comprometida e ele nem imagina. Irmãos que moram juntos mas vivem cada um em seu próprio mundo, pois o mais novo é viciado em jogos virtuais, casais imaginários, a garota que precisa fingir ser lésbica para ter um grupo de amigas, mas secretamente mantém uma página de redes sociais dedicada à belos garotos. O ator famoso que não pode ter relacionamentos, nem mesmo amigos íntimos, para não desagradar os fãs... Enfim, nada disso é assunto do passado, vivemos hoje isso de forma muito mais séria. Com certeza uma série interessante, consegue desenvolver bem todas as histórias, e de bônus, ainda é possível ver atores que hoje brilham na telinha em sua versão adolescente, como Victor, Toptap, Mek, Off, Tay Tawan, New, Tao, Gun, Jennie, Godji...

A ost deve ser lembrada, é muito bonita! E os demais aspectos, pra uma série de 2014 são muito bons. Recomendo muito!

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