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gamutoflove
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Date: 27 February 2004
6 w; Z0 H5 T7 S8 c- MSummary: It's not sweet, but beautiful
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( X& f1 D: y) nBefore watching this film, I thought of Korean movies as sweet, tear-dripping melodoramas. And I was waiting for a movie to totally change my stereo type. So, here comes this movie. Yes, it is about a physically challenged person. Yes, it is about prejudice and sexual violence. This might not be a movie that many Korean movie (Last Presents or Love letter...) lovers like. This movie is not sweet, but very bitter. The people around the two protagonists seems terribly selfish. But most of us are on that side, not the two outsided protagonists. Watching them treated badly by the world full of prejudice which we might commit in real life,is really painful. But still, the live the protagonists lead are very beautiful, sometimes even laughable. / i% x+ W7 \/ m' R5 C V& P
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Summary: Another masterpiece by Lee Chang-Dong+ ]* L; ] I; i( w# S; N
+ U8 h; w) V) y s' v. lThe director had been known in Korea as a novelist before he started to make films. That must be the reason why his films give us always the impression that they are deeply literary much more than cinematic. G" X/ g- M( l+ {
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"Oasis" is a very literary film like his other films, but it also gives us the specific pleasure to watch movies by the imaginary scenes dreamed by a handicapped woman named Gong-ju, for instance. These scenes are sentimental, but they are incredibly beautiful and delicate (these pigeons and butterflies flying in her room, for example). And the scene where Gong-ju sings a song to another protagonist Jong-du must be one of the most beautiful scenes of "confession of love" ever depicted by a film. That is the moment, I am sure, when this film takes suddenly on the features of something sacred.
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! G8 e+ m k0 Y( u: XThe director says this is a film about "border" as well as "communication." And in order to show the difficulty of communication and/or of going across the border, he tried to make Jong-du an abominable and disgusting person, especially at the beginning of the film. If you feel uncomfortable when you start to watch this film, you should consider that such discomfort was intentional even though the behaviors by Jong-du seem to be extremely violent and selfish. And you should also be patient until the "miraculous" moment of the "mutation" (from vulgarity to holiness) comes. You will certainly forget about the discomfort you had felt.
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And this is naturally a film about Love. It shows us just "one of" the forms of love, should I probably say, since the one shown in this film is too special and peculiar, but still I am tempted to say: "This is the Love."
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I though of "The Legend of St. Julian Hospitator" by Gustave Flaubert, but I do not know if I should expect that the protagonists would be called under the name of the "saints" or so. And I also remembered the heroine Sarah of "The End of the Affair" by Graham Greene. Sarah writes in her diary, thinking of her lover named Maurice, with whom she had decided not to meet again because of the promise with God: "I'm not at peace any more. I just want him like I used to in the old days. I want to be eating sandwiches with him. I want to be drinking with him in a bar. I'm tired and I don't want any more pain. I want Maurice. I want ordinary corrupt human love."
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% M5 u( e! ?' W0 EOnce swore to God to separate from his lover, Sarah wants him always, being full of desires and wanting "corrupt human love" even just before her death. She stayed secular and even vulgar until the end, even though the author must have wished to lead her to the path toward God. And that is just why Sarah, that miserable mortal, stays always in my mind. ]" u. i7 m" V0 E. k1 s0 R: X
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Same thing for Gong-ju and Jong-du. Their happiness may exist in this real world full of prejudice and discrimination, where ugly desire or ordinary cheapness of human life smears them. But it may also give them pleasure to love, to help each other, and/or to share something precious between them. They do not need God, but they just need each other.! D/ X4 q* K3 ^0 _" n# k
4 C, u' x0 G/ @# j1 g6 UNobody knows whether or not the future will congratulate them in the end, but probably, as did the director, should I leave them in the room of Gong-ju, where many dusts floating in the air are shimmering with the sunlight, and Gong-ju seems to be smiling, reading the letter from Jong-du. We don't know if they will be able to finish their story, but anyway, they have started it. Everything is now up to them.: W1 e' ?$ Y3 r b3 C
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/ Y. C* C. Y# w1 `Summary: so... this is love.' P8 e& P7 P: X5 q* ?
8 W6 l. ] a0 h, ?; ]; Y! ~% x2 ?Oasis is a very powerful film about love. Usually, romance movies have such good looking main characters with perfect soul that audience can think only decent people deserve to love. But in reality, not many people have lives like in "Pretty Woman".
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Oasis completely reverses this cliche. Two main characters are hated by everyone. Jong-Doo is a three time ex-prisoner, and Gong-Ju is cebral palsy. Sol Kyoung Gu and Moon So Ri give such brilliant performances that at first I was annoyed by Jong-Doo and felt uncomfortable watching Gong-Ju's twisted body.+ \: F9 U, r& K
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The scenes that Gong-Ju sometimes turns into normal and sings and plays coquetish show her wish very well. And the scene that Jong-Doo cuts off the branch which Gong-Ju scares is so powerful and emotional. $ ?* R9 J0 D: H% H" }% [4 }
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Some audience say the last scene is passimistic but I see that someday their love will blossom., J$ [7 l) M+ o3 P/ Y
3 d: L4 f7 W1 P2 L: P5 r/ EDirector tells the audience that they are the ones who have prejudice to minor people and they should see them as warmly as others. + m4 g7 _ `: `: v) Z% p% P
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9 h. W: I8 h* m( i$ S1 MSummary: Masterwork from Lee Chang-Dong6 y7 g2 v1 N5 ]# |0 V
/ T. C* x+ f8 S, V"Oasis" is the story of the relationship of a man imprisoned by his mind with a woman imprisoned by her body. That they establish a relationship comes as much because of their handicaps as in spite of them.+ c' K i3 u" K
: t* j7 Y: _+ n: AI knew before seeing the film that Moon So-ri was an able-bodied actress. As a result, at first I wasn't convinced she was playing someone with cerebral palsy. But Lee Chang-dong does a brilliant thing. He films several scenes that become the imaginings and fantasies of Gong-ju, Moon's character, as an able-bodied woman. This had the effect on me of seeing Gong-ju as disabled. And it spells out clearly that cerebral palsy is a physical condition not a mental one.) T' X3 e$ f7 O1 _& k" ?% n
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Sol Kyung-gu as Jong-du is perfect. I've been describing Jong-du as "simple-minded" to others but that doesn't pinpoint his mental condition. I might say he is carefree but it's not just an attitude; he is carefree to the point of mental illness. His condition makes him act both bad (he's been in prison three times) and good (he absolutely sees right through Gong-ju's handicap and truly comes to care for her). While Gong-ju is frustrated over her condition and how others use her it, Jong-du appears so utterly accepting of his fate that he doesn't even defend himself. I can't stop thinking about how Mr. Sol has played this interesting character.8 W9 u: Q, S6 Y/ L: y! Q0 x
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Both Gong-ju's and Jong-du's families scorn and pity their conditions. But watch how they also come to exploit them as well.
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I highly recommend this film.
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% t+ J# `: w4 q, wThis is one of the most beautiful and sensible films you can ever see. So-ri Moon's performance is incredibly real that until a dream-like sequence I thought that she really had had cerebral palsy. Kyung-gu Sol was transmitting perfectly the behaviours and the glances of a 10 yeas old boy in the body of a 29 year old men.
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$ s) }5 H8 M* K7 C& m! b0 ^" yThe visual effects were applied brilliantly: white dove and the passing from reflection of light to white butterflies... Gong-ju's favorite color.
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* w& N: z4 V+ X: C) dThis is a film which can make you believe the purity of an man who committed 3 crimes and who tempted to rape a disabled young woman. This is film makes you believe in love, makes you sad, angry, happy. Shortly; this film gives you all that cinema should.
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Date: 30 April 2003' I& }+ Y1 @$ F: i& t; _. j
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; W6 e/ v" l% n |% o% i3 j! gI think this film is the most powerful one in the films I have seen so far this year.
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Before I saw the movie,I did not imagine how good the film would be but after that ,in fact,during seeing it,I can not stop feeling that is the best,so moving ,so convulsing. The girl is not so pretty,but her performance is so wonderful# a* `2 C' _& v" Y/ k
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I love this film!!
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$ m) k( y" a# K( `% RWashington, DC
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Summary: Fabulous Acting by Two Tremendous Leads
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2 X0 [7 \6 j: k+ l, c$ l1 N* oThe premise of this story challenges both of its romantic leads to use their bodies to convey the characters' emotions. Jong-du, played by Sol Kyung-gu, is an awkward ex-con whose older brother calls him immature but he seems a little crazy, or maybe mentally deficient. His family reluctantly helps him out, but he is an embarrassment and a nuisance to them.; l& k8 N+ m; v @) o
0 ]5 v5 r& U5 }! s6 u2 NGong-ju (Moon So-ri) is a woman with cerebral palsy whose family is just as bad as Jong-du's. When Jong-du begins to visit her an odd relationship develops, with each bringing the other an acceptance and appreciation neither has felt before.% t$ v( t! P$ P! Z ]' g5 M0 P
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Moon So-ri's performance is so convincing I actually thought she had c.p. until a fantasy sequence showed what Gong-ju imagined herself doing if she were not disabled. But it's not just the contortions of c.p. that she portrays. She manages to show every possible emotion within the confines of c.p. spasms and she brings the character to life with a fully developed range of emotions and intellect.6 ? E$ |1 c- y& R6 C j
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Sol Kyung-gu's body language is just as effective, though his performance is easily overshadowed by Moon So-ri's. He is by turns menacing, sweet, dim-witted, shy, playful, inconsiderate and contrite, and most of this comes out through his body language.# x3 F ]9 r3 g2 {6 t
W. w( Y( B* D7 ]8 ~$ B: OI saw this movie with English subtitles, but the acting is so effective that you almost don't need to read them.8 u, V& D+ n0 @" w0 Y
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: \4 p+ j8 T/ Z$ p0 X$ C4 t3 K5 ]Date: 27 March 2003
* w! t! C# k% o1 a3 o9 ^Summary: Wonderful movie( g" N5 | _3 n/ }- ?: o# Y
5 l$ }& ^# W' O* j6 \5 UI get to see a Korean Movie now and then, and, even though i didnt understand a word of dialogue in this film, it was easy to tell what was going on. Oasis is the tale of a mentally disabled man who has recently been released from prison. Shortly after leaving, he attempts to rape a young physically disabled woman in her apartment. He comes to his senses, and apologizes later, and forms a powerful bond of understanding. while to most americans, Gong- Ju's fantasies might seem a little...odd (the dancing woman and the elephant is a perfect example,) it just goes to show that our cinema has lost most (if not all) heart. I would strongly urge anyone who is into Korean cinema to watch this film, it is a truly touching experience. 0 F* N# `7 s* `- p9 U! C0 g& I2 o
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Summary: Destruction of love
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" E; a! R; D' ]* K( O9 r) `" }9 s+ zAt the beginning of the "L'Abri"-screening (which I discuss somewhere else) at the film market MIFED in Milano, CJ Entertainment's young sales responsible asked me: "Which Korean films have you bought?" - "All of them", I answered, to make a point: Korean's movies were just unbeatable in 2002. Then I confessed that I was actually a journalist, not a buyer. The young man surprised me with another question: "Did you cry at the end of 'The Way Home'?" - "No", I said, thinking of my grandmother, "actually I cried at the end of OASIS."
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( Q; G% `! y( h. `; A" h5 nMovies should move viewers. No hight tech genre film can beat what goes straight to your heart. The love of a naive, warmhearted fool (Sol Kyung-gu as Jong-du) to a spasmic beauty (Moon So-ri as Gong-ju) that is unable to walk and clearly articulate herself is attacked by both of their families. It could be considered a love between handicapped and thus underline the demand for a change of law which seems to have its flaws in Korea as well as here in Germany. Prohibited is the unthinkable, i.e. the sexual demands of those who are stigmatised to not have them. The sad outcome of the events is lightened by the unchangeable affection of the male protagonist. Feminists might argue against the easy way in which the attempt to rape the spasmic woman turns into mutual love. The real challenge for the excellent actress Moon So-ri was indeed to transmit whether we see joy or pain in her wincing mimic. Have you ever asked yourself how a person suffering from cerebral palsy would look during orgasm? See for yourself. The elegant camera moves from the common theme of the movie to dreamlike scenes where all of Gong-jus illness is gone. Her dancing with a young elephant had the same non-intellectual humor as the tree-cutting of Jong-du. When the lights go on in your theatre, you might ask yourself how deeply YOU are able to love. 0 Q, d5 t9 C. Y5 u
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Date: 26 August 2002
4 y* L+ X* y: z. f R3 j7 zSummary: A love story of odd couple...
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4 C8 t' k$ y5 H* E) ^ D6 `+ zLove is the sweetest thing of all but real world is not at all. A ex-prisoner and handicapped are falling in love. But society don't understand their noble love. Society only try to see their surface, without efforts that understand their true emotion. After all their love couldn't make it.
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