On May 16, 2018, at the Lumière Coliseum in Cannes, France, a movie caused a sensation after its premiere .
From the beginning of the film's ending song, the audience spontaneously applauded, and the eyes followed the filmmakers who slowly walked to the stage, until the end of the ending song, the applause did not stop.
Enjoying this extremely high courtesy is the crew of the Korean movie "Burning", especially the name of director Lee Cangdong has been cheered by the audience many times.
Speaking of which, Lee Cang-dong is actually one of the most "alternative" directors in the Korean showbiz industry.
Born in 1954, he is 67 years old, 21 years old, but only made six film works, this long period of polishing has made each of his works recognized by fans at home and abroad: "Green Fish", "Poetry", "Oasis", "Mints", "Miyang", "Burning".
In fact, before becoming a director, Li Cangdong was a novelist, he often tortured religion, admired Lu Xun, and won literary awards many times for works such as "War Profit", "As Destiny", and "Burning Paper".
After the age of forty, Li Cangdong gradually became suspicious of the influence of pure literature, began to involve in the film industry, and polished one masterpiece after another.
Unlike Hollywood movies, which focus on most people, Li Cangdong always combines strange love stories with marginal groups, choosing a composite cultural perspective to balance business and art, with both poetic feelings and philosophical depth.
As a director, he has always been simple and down-to-earth, and his works have always focused on real and complex human nature.
The film we are going to talk about today is by Li Cangdong, who broke the ground and told a special love.
Oasis
Released in 2002, the film is one of Lee Cangdong's "Green Trilogy" (the remaining two are Green Fish and Mints).
At the 59th Venice Film Festival, Oasis was nominated for that year's Golden Lion Award, as well as several awards such as the Fabisi Award, the Catholic Culture Award and the Special Director Award.
The film uses a romantic realistic style to tell the love between a "special" man and a woman.
"For men abandoned by society and families and women who live only in their own world, love is a common oasis."
Hong Zhongdu (Xue Jingqiu) is released after completing his sentence.
He is 38 years old, with a small flat head, and he still wears short sleeves in the summer, and he is frozen.
Unlike the dejectedness we imagined, Zhongdu was stupid.
Silly Le went to the previous home, found that the family had moved, but did not tell him, pounced.
Silly happy to ask the man at the bus stop for a cigarette, silly happy to ask the student sister who makes a public phone call can not give him a little money to call.
Silly Le wanted to ask the owner of the grocery store to buy a piece of tofu to eat, the owner was very good, and invited him to eat tofu and drink milk for free.
Later, he bought a new dress for his mother at the stall and wanted to see how happy her mother looked.
Because he was so hungry, Zhongdu ate the Overlord meal, and the people called the police.
In fact, he didn't want to eat the Overlord meal, he just wanted to find his family and then pay for it.
After entering the bureau, his brother hurried to lead him away.
You see, at this time, the family appeared.
Brother Zhongdu was not happy to see him, and even very angry, and both he and Zhongdu said, "Zhongdu, just do me a favor and don't interfere with my life, okay?" Please. ”
Zhongdu just smirked.
He also has an older brother, who is married and has children, and lives with his mother.
They sold their original apartment and opened a small auto repair shop.
There are younger brothers and brothers, sisters-in-law, mothers, and a big family, but everyone hopes that Zhongdu will be able to stay in prison for the rest of his life.
When they arrived at home, their sister-in-law would only shout "Zhongdu you have stepped on the ground dirty", and no one noticed that Zhongdu was wearing only thin clothes in the winter and did not wear shoes on his feet.
In fact, he entered the bureau to cover his brother's guilt.
At that time, his brother drove a car and killed a cleaner, he said that he still had a family to support, so he asked Zhongdu to bear the guilt for him, and Zhongdu was also willing, after all, he had also committed crimes before and had experience.
But the funny thing is that my brother often tells him in a serious tone: "You should also mature, do you know what that means?" As an adult, you can't do whatever you want, but you have to take responsibility for your actions. ”
That's funny isn't it?
Wasn't he the one who bumped into someone who didn't dare to admit that he let his brother go to the guilt?
hehe.
Later, his brother arranged for Zhongdu to deliver takeaways in a restaurant.
His behavior is still out of line.
For example, after delivering a meal, you have to stand behind the people who play cards and sing to watch the battle.
For example, it was hard not to watch people play cards, riding a battery car back on the way back to see the crew shooting a driving (serious driving) scene, he drove the speed to the maximum, laughed and chased after the big truck, the crew was angry enough.
As he chased back, he said, "It turned out to be fake." ”
Hahahahaha, many Hollywood movies like to shoot car chase scenes, but in fact most of them are fake, not real shots.
This clip can be said to be very ironic haha.
As a result, because he was too excited, he fell to the ground and went back to be disciplined by his sister-in-law: "If I didn't have you, I would feel that my life was not bad." Without you, we have nothing to worry about. Not just me, but your brother and mom all think so. ”
I don't know how Zhongdu thought about it, but he later went to visit the family of the person he killed and bought a basket of fruits.
At this time, he meets the heroine Gong Soo (Played by Moon So-ri) for the first time, she is the daughter of the deceased, a 25-year-old patient with severe cerebral nerve palsy, with a terrible face and atrophic limbs, unable to live like a normal person.
What's even more terrifying is that Gong Soo's mind is not wrong, it is normal.
So it is equivalent to this twisted body, a normal person trapped in it, unable to move.
Oasis is realistic in general, but it also incorporates some surreal fragments.
For example, when Gong Soo first appeared, she was sitting in the corner of the room, using a mirror to reflect light to all corners of the room.
She sees the reflection of the mirror on the wall as a dove, and the dove also symbolizes the purity and beauty of Gong Soo.
After that, the mirror was broken, and the fine reflection became a group of butterflies dancing, which not only reflected Gong Su's loneliness, but also represented her eagerness to communicate with people.
It's just that while she's playing with the mirror, her brother and sister-in-law are moving, and they're ready to move to a new house, leaving Kyong-so alone here.
She is disabled, the house is subsidized by the government, and if Gong Soo leaves, the house will be gone.
So the family entrusted Gong Su to the care of the neighbors and moved away by themselves.
At this time, Zhongdu appeared, and he fell in love with this woman.
He sent her flowers, and in his heart, Kyong-soo was the real "princess".
Gong Su: Why did you send me flowers?
Zhongdu: I don't know. Is your name really Gong-so? Because "Gong Soo" means "princess". From now on, I will call you Princess Highness.
Gong Su: Then I will call you General.
Zhongdu took Gong Su to the roof of the roof to let the wind blow and look at the sky.
Go to Gong Soo's house to help her wash her clothes, dry her clothes, and do housework.
Kyung-so asks Jung-do what he likes to eat, And Jung-so says fried sauce noodles, and Kyong-soo says she likes to eat everything.
So, Zhongdu secretly took her out to eat delicious food, but the restaurant did not want them to eat inside, under the pretext that it was going to close and invite them out.
He could only take Gong Su to the garage and order fried sauce noodles for takeaway.
When he got home, there was a traffic jam on the highway, and Zhong was not impatient, but he was very happy, and he excitedly carried Gong Soo out of the car and carried her to dance wildly on the traffic jam highway.
This is life, it is a sincere, proud life, people are always full of prejudice, they are always angry, so we always miss something very important.
This scene reminds me of the famous scene in Burning: the heroine is naked and dancing in the orange and yellow of the sunset.
Only Li Cangdong, only Li Cangdong, can shoot this kind of picture.
Perhaps, only when we are a mad fool, can we really approach the divine, to the pure.
Chungdo will also wash Kyon-so's hair, dress up, and then take her to his mother's birthday party.
Just seeing Zhongdu come with Gongsu, the people at the table at the table instantly changed their faces.
Later, at Gong-so's invitation, they had a relationship.
However, this scene was just seen by Gong Soo's brother and sister-in-law who came to visit, and they thought that Zhongdu had raped Gong Soo and called the police.
Zhongdu didn't say anything, and Gong-so could only say a word intermittently, because he couldn't say anything because of emotional tension.
As a result, Zhongdu san entered the palace.
Brother Gong so's biggest concern is not his sister, and his first reaction after the accident is to ask for a high amount of compensation from the Chungdo family.
Brother Zhongdu not only had no intention of paying for his brother, but also believed that "there should be no one like him in society".
That night, Zhongdu ran out of the police station like crazy, climbed to the tree outside Gongsu's window, and sawed off the branches one by one.
No one understood why he did this, only Chung-do and Kyo-soo knew, because Kyo-soo had said before that the shadow of the tree would frighten her.
If I can no longer accompany you, I will help you remove this shadow.
No one understood them, and in the eyes of the world, there was not even any love, only two lunatics, and a rape.
What is a family, what is a loved one, what is understanding, is nothing but false self-righteousness.
This was a trial of only the accused, who had no lawyer, no say, and had to wait for a long sentence.
Two people who obviously have relatives are still living in a lonely place.
No one understands why Zhongdu is cold with bare feet and buys clothes for his mother with the only money he has; no one understands why he suddenly pulls the priest on the street to pray for him; no one realizes that the relationship between him and Gong-so is love...
Yeah, who will understand, Ming Zhong has already brought Gong Soo to his mother's birthday party like a girlfriend, and those people still easily deny them and their feelings.
Zhongdu's stubbornness is nothing more than a kind of resistance.
Resistance to the world, resistance to incomprehension, resistance to discrimination.
There are four "miracles" in the film:
Gong Soo can stand up, can walk freely like a normal person, can control his face and expression and limbs, and can flirt with Zhongdu like an ordinary couple, hold hands and hug, and even sing and dance wantonly.
This "miracle" is the bright color of the movie, but it is also a fantasy and blessing.
The "oasis" that appears seven times in the film is an exotic oil painting hanging on the wall of Gong Su's bedroom.
In the dim light, we can vaguely see the "oasis" on the painting, but the shadows of the branches outside the window are projected on the painting, which looks terrifying and frightening.
The picture at this time hints at the great suffering that Gong Soo suffered in his heart, until the appearance of Hong Zhongdu.
So the "oasis" hanging on the wall began to become different: exotic dancers, children, and baby elephants came out of the paintings, singing and dancing together, and everything was beautiful.
At the end, Gong-so reads a letter written to her by Jung-do in the room.
At this time, her room was no longer dark and dull, it became clean and bright, the sun was everywhere, the white silk danced in the air, and the oil painting called "Oasis" was still hanging there.
And in the oasis of the soul, Gong Soo is waiting for Chungdo, waiting for her general, like a princess.
Oasis is a very good film that is ostensibly about the love of people with disabilities, but in fact explores issues such as emotion, humanity and communication.
Director Li Cangdong himself said: "'Oasis' can be seen as a film that explores the boundaries between oneself and others, normal people, and the disabled, or a boundary between love dreams and reality, and the boundaries between film dreams and real life."
And out of the movie, we will find that in real life, Gong Soo will not meet Zhongdu, and will only nest in the room for a lifetime; Zhongdu cannot fall in love with Gongsu and will only be disliked by everyone.
For the marginalized, there are no princesses, no generals, only a pale and poor life.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Tong Yunxi
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