The Loner

Review by ~ T. Sankrutyayan

The Loner is a short film about a woman searching for her daughter after the society disintegrates because of what man had done to this planet. The anarchy befalls and chaos ensues. Surrounded by such dangerous circumstances, she bravely moves forward searching. One day she finds a woman being chased by a gang of men who intend to harm her and saves her from being raped. A message about the importance of being alive has been tried to convey through this short film. The delivery possesses thoughtfully written monologues about the harm done by the mankind.

The film opens with some well written and influential monologues delivered in an authoritative and persuasive voice. The screenplay for the first few minutes has been profound; the way the walking woman is shown in the abandoned lands as the voice over grips the attention of the audience.

We see masked men surround a woman after chasing her from around the corner as our protagonist watches them. The woman runs through a gate in hope of escaping into a house or a school building. The men chase her and pin her down while one of them kneels down and unzips. The Loner bashes the man kneeling on the head with a baseball bat and comes to the woman’s rescue. After a tussle, they get rid of her mask and she delivers a dialogue about how she could have killed them all if she really wanted to. And she fights off all the goons and metaphorically gives the woman a way to survive, giving her a gun.

The woman who played The Loner is indifferent about everything that is happening around her, it might have been written in such a way as to portray a woman that has seen the harshness of survival.  The beautiful, heart-warming music that plays, in the beginning, conveys that a drama unfolds that is emotional, deep or tragic, but instead the music carries us through a completely other emotion.   

The Loner  is an introspective concept with solid cinematography, soundtrack  monologues as the driving factor in this short film.