Synopsis
Chronicles artist RM's eight-month production of his second solo album, “Right Place, Wrong Person,” while candidly recording the endless concerns of the person Kim Namjoon, and the things he immerses himself in and loves.
Chronicles artist RM's eight-month production of his second solo album, “Right Place, Wrong Person,” while candidly recording the endless concerns of the person Kim Namjoon, and the things he immerses himself in and loves.
RM: Right People, Wrong Place, RM: Right People Wrong Place, Rm: Right People, Wrong Place, RM: Đúng Người, Sai Thời Điểm
intimate, warm, and honest. a beautiful insight into the making of a beautiful album, a sweet glimpse into rm’s delicate balancing of honesty, change, and turbulent emotion. this documentary made me smile, left me contemplative, and had my heart overflowing with fondness. what a special film.
what a beautiful thing, to make art you love with people who love you
It’s like watching da vinci paint the Mona Lisa
RM takes us to a place so intimate you feel wrong for having peeked into his head.
a journey of searching for what’s always been there - love for music, art and people. i feel so grateful for being able to see this side of him, extremely vulnerable and honest. patiently waiting for him to come back and show us what he didn’t have time to convey this time.
“to me, he felt like a sparkling, bright-eyed boy”
never saw someone loving art as much as namjoon does. i hope he never stops making music.
idk bro just there for my boi yapping whole 80 minutes
A documentary so beautiful and comfortable it sounded like Futile Devices by Sufjan Stevens. Seeing people who have a real ion in life is beautiful, this man dedicated all his life to art and he really exudes art.
I’ll will confess myself about a hidden part of my life since I do use Letterboxd as a diary 🙂↕️. From 2018 to 2022, I was a huge fan of BTS, following the group during that time was a meaningful experience, but as many know, the decided to take a hiatus to fulfill their military service and pursue individual projects. With that, I gradually drifted away, from all about them. Watching “RM: Right People, Wrong Place” made me realize something: the…
I don’t normally rate or review album or concert documentaries because I hold them to a different standard than other films. They’re not usually about artistry in a cinematic sense, and that’s fine — they exist to document, to celebrate, to capture a moment. But this was special for me.
Right People, Wrong Place made me cry. Not just because I’m a BTS fan, but because it made me feel seen. It captured that deep exhaustion that comes from being hyper-aware of yourself and everyone around you. The constant balancing act of holding space for others while trying not to lose yourself in the process.
Watching Namjoon put all those complicated feelings together — fear, loneliness, frustration, hope — and transform them into something so honest and raw (the album, the music videos, the photos, and this documentary) felt cathartic. It reminded me that there is something sacred in creating, even when it comes from a place of hurt.
The word "Namjooning" confirmed in my vocabulary under the definition of "the way I would like to live".