Rumah Untuk Alie Review
Director: Herwin Novianto
Date Created: 2025-08-29 02:34
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Rumah Untuk Alie Review: Headlined by Herwin Novianto, Alie’s Home is an Indonesian drama released on Netflix. The film features Anantya Kirana playing Alie in the leading role, with satisfactory support coming in from Rizky Hanggono, Dito Darmawan, Rafly Altama Putra, and Andryan Bima. With a runtime of around 1 hour and 25 minutes, the film is a tragic account of a girl isolated by her own family members. Beneath its façade, however, the film aims to be a story of resilience, forgiveness, and finding love in a damaged household.
Rumah Untuk Alie Review
Netflix’s Rumah Untuk Alie evokes an emotionally rich atmosphere. We see Alie, a child who should have been overwhelmed with sympathy rather than weighed down by blame and rejection. The story is simple but extremely emotional: it asks how long love and patience can last in an ugly world. As a spectator, I went into this film expecting a fine family saga, and in many ways it did not, but not without its own flaws.
Anantya Kirana as Alie was excellent. She embodies a child’s innocence and wordless suffering, as she does not know why she is being tormented for being the reason for all their miseries. Her reactions had already spoken more than the lines of the script. Rizky Hanggono, Abimanyu Alie’s father, is also shown with a certain coldness that you would have to detest but feel sorry about because of his turmoil. The rest of the supporting cast, especially those who acted out Alie’s siblings, brought gravity to the poisonous home life.
I think that without these actors, the film would not have been engaging. Even when the script had flaws, the actors did keep me glued to my seat. To some extent, Herwin Novianto’s casting choice was sublime, and it is probably the primary reason I persisted with watching the entire film.
What I found so compelling in Alie’s Home was how it dealt with family blame for children, child abuse as a result of childhood trauma, and resilience. Alie’s is the experience of so many children blamed in their families for behaviours over which they had no control. It was sad but sometimes uplifting as well to watch her inner strength in the midst of consistent rejection.
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The movie also delves into how patriarchal governments are capable of being a house of cruelty instead of comfort. We sit there and ask ourselves why parents sometimes do so badly to children, and why siblings allow cruelty to become the norm. They are tough questions, and the movie is not afraid to pose them.
While I was emotionally invested, I will admit Rumah Untuk Alie is not perfect. In real life, however, the film was melodramatic and overboard at times to accept. There were a few scenes where the family hatred was so exaggerated that I felt as if the director was attempting to torture Alie more than putting her through real-world situations. There were some instances where the plot was unrealistic—some things occurred so unrealistically that I felt pulled out of the emotional space.
Another fault is that the characters are one-dimensional. The only relative who is not portrayed as completely ruthless or completely helpless is our main character. Human beings are not so binary. I would have liked the screenplay to take more time defining their shades—the guilt, the confusion, the cultural justification for what they’re doing. Without a balance, which would naturally make characters one-dimensional at some level, the story was destined to remain one-dimensional.
All its flaws aside, Indonesian film Rumah Untuk Alie broke my heart. Watching Alie struggle made me think about all the invisible wars most children wage at home without anyone in this world even realising it. Even when I was frustrated at story decisions, I cared about Alie. I wanted her peace, for her to be kind, for her to have a home.
The film made me consider forgiveness as well. By the end, when everything is so bad for Alie at the end what would come to my mind would be that forgiveness is even a possibility when the hurts are this profound. Does a family ever receive a second chance when so many individuals are damaged? The film does not provide an answer but leaves you with that unease.
Netflix Rumah Untuk Alie Review: Summing Up
Overall, the Indonesian movie Rumah Untuk Alie left me with mixed feelings. I enjoyed its premise, its acting, and its emotional depth, but I also disliked its over-the-top melodrama, its flat characters, and the manufactured sensation some of its plot developments had. But at times, films are not about perfection. At times, they are about what they leave inside you. And this film did prick at my defences and make me feel a great spectrum of emotions: outrage, sorrow, frustration, and even a tiny kernel of hope.
