1. Lee Chang-dong did not use too many fancy filming or narrative techniques during the filming. Overall, it gives the impression that the performances of the two actors (Xue Jinggu, Moon Suli) added more brilliance to the film. It is true to see that there are comments that this film relies on the excellent performances of the two leading actors. Personally, I feel that this film is not about the details of the story, but about the telling of the story. In "Burning", Li Cangdong buried a lot of clues in the whole story, such as cats, watches, and unknown calls. In "Oasis", the setting of the story is not so detailed, just a painting in the heroine's house (Oasis) ) as a symbol. The structure of the story is relatively simple. What is interesting is that there are many girly fantasies of the heroine interspersed in the middle. Compared with reality, it also means "this is not a fairy tale, this is life". 2. Regarding the symbols of "Oasis" and "Strange Shadow": On the night that Xue Jingqiu first went to their house, he gave Wen Suli a close-up: she looked at the oasis painting covered by tree shadows with an uneasy expression. Later, on the night of talking on the phone with Xue Jingqiu, the shadow of the tree gradually blurred until it disappeared. After that, Wen Suli had a dream that she returned to normal and danced with Xue Jingqiu among the scattered petals. That scene is the restoration of the oasis painting scene. At the end, in order to eliminate the girl's fear of tree shadows, Xue did not hesitate to climb the top of the tree and cut off all the branches - eliminating the source of the tree shadow from the root. (On this point, I think it is enough to install curtains in the room. The arrangement of climbing the tree is more romantic, and second, it reflects the knight's doting on the "princess".) 3. Actor's expressiveness: Xue Jingqiu The one was an unemployed vagabond who had just come out of prison. He was wearing out-of-season short-sleeved sleeves, shivering in the cold wind, eating free tofu, drinking milk, and occasionally teasing his boss. My intuitive feeling at the time was that this person still had a little expectation and love for life. At night, he seemed to feel free, speeding up the car frantically, hoping to see the scene of the actors filming, and saying hello warmly-although in the end he was heavily Falls. In addition, there are some small movements, such as swaying awkwardly from side to side when he stands, tapping and spitting downstairs, which are actually a kind of unease after being isolated from the world for a long time.
And Wen Suli is restoring a person with physical disability and extreme low self-esteem. Because he was almost raped by a man, he may realize his identity as a "woman", so he awakened his sexual consciousness, began to dress himself up, and slowly began to affirm his own life with the help of Xue. (This explanation is a bit far-fetched, corrections are welcome) I can't think of a suitable language to praise Wen Suli's performance. From the distortion of her limbs to the changes in her expression, she almost restored the appearance of a disabled person. It can be said that she played a disabled person on the macro level and perfected the role as a whole, while Xue Jingqiu achieved his role from the details.
4. Theme: Since the story itself is very straightforward, it does not use flashbacks like "Mints", and the topic is not as deep as it is. But this story reminds me of Jia Zhangke's "Xiao Wu". Xiao Wu is a thief. He has not changed his business for many years, and his friends have left him. He fled to the outer city to make friends with song girls. "Xiao Wu" and "Oasis" are not directly related, but both discuss the lives of people who are marginalized by society. In "Xiao Wu", there is a scene where Wang Hongwei is squatting on the ground and pedestrians come and go, and Xiao Wu is just a decoration in the market. This situation is slightly similar to that of Xue Jingqiu's character in this film. Sometimes I also wonder, a person who is helpless and spurned by others, where can their emotions be vented? People who have just been released from prison and are out of tune with the world can't help but feel pity and empathy after seeing the disabled girl left by their family, thinking that they will be people of the world and will not disappoint each other.
People on the fringes of society will not attract recognition for anything they do. If he stretches out his hand, it must be stealing. Sleeping with a girl must be rape, and they will not have the right to defend themselves. If you want to minimize the damage to the people around you, the best way is to disappear silently, like water disappearing in water.
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