Aloners: Review. By Joe Muldoon. Some films adopt such an incisive realism that they resemble fly-on-the-wall documentary filmmaking more than cinema itself – first-timer Hong Sung-eun’s Aloners presents itself as such, similarly to Ken Loach’s 2016 drama I, Daniel Blake. A miserably Sisyphean existence, call centre worker Jina (Gong Seung-yeon)