illusory reality

Songbirds and sparrows, traitors and generals.

Your Royal Highness, if everyone understands my intentions, the tree branches will not be cut off.

*The list of three counts and the reality of illusory reincarnation

In the film, Li Cangdong mentioned the previous convictions of all three counts, intentional wounding, attempted rape, and accidental homicide. Li Cangdong gave a detailed explanation for the crime of accidental murder and replaced the crime for his brother. But the other two charges did not give a detailed explanation, and even the reasons were not mentioned. This puzzled me when I first watched it. Why did the author bring up an unexplained thing multiple times in a row? I don’t think it is to make the characters fuller or to increase the viewer’s imagination. If so, it should be Some additional explanations. So why, I found the answer I think at the back of the movie, Zhongdu read his letter, it said that if I get out of prison one day, I must find a big piece of tofu to eat, because I have enough to eat Got the beans here. I can't help but think of the scene at the beginning of the movie where Zhongdu is in the store with a big piece of tofu, and the boss gives him a free bill. Many friends think that this is an echo, but I think it is a cycle of narrative angle, and the hint of this narrative angle is also reflected in the film. In the course of the film, Chung-do met Gong-joo and tried to rape her unsuccessfully, which corresponds to the charge of attempted rape. At the end of the film, they all escaped from the prison. After escaping from the prison, they wanted to call Gongzhu, so they hijacked a woman and successfully grabbed the phone, corresponding to the intention to hurt people. Therefore, it was found that the director did not give a real explanation for the two crimes other than accidental homicide. But in the process of the film, I found two events that matched it, and I can't help but think, is the timeline given by the film correct? Or is the main body of the narrative told in the movie just smooth? Thinking that the "Father Trapped in Time" I watched not long ago was told from the perspective of dementia, then in the film Oasis, the film is also described from the perspective of a person who is generally considered to be mentally unsound. Li Cangdong put a question mark on the authenticity of the narrative, and deliberately emphasized this falsity. In the course of the film, Gongzhu's countless fantasies and dream-like scenes make us intoxicated, but we can also clearly realize that these are just the imaginations that appear in Gongzhu. Thinking of the dislocation of the two charges, would it be an imagination that the whole thing existed in Zhongdu? Did he really have a love affair with Gongzhu? Does anyone really care about him in this society? Many people feel that the film Oasis is about a relationship that transcends material things, and that pure love itself is beautiful. But Li Cangdong's ruthlessness is precisely hidden in this beauty. He buried a possibility. All these beauty are just imaginations, and no one in this society cares about them at all. Oasis exists only in despairing deserts, sometimes

* Institutional disregard for minorities

In the hand-held shot at the beginning of the film, Zhongdu shows a dazed and wandering state that is out of tune with the environment. Gongzhu's appearance is based on the subjective imagination, the image of the dove and the soft humming, the disappearance of the dove and the painful moan. There is a stark contrast between beauty and cruelty, fantasy and reality. The shadow of the branches on the canvas of the oasis comes from the tree outside the window, symbolizing the hostility of the desert in the real world to minority groups. The realistic embarrassment and indifference of the two families that Li Cangdong focused on echoes the dreamy relationship between the two, and the voices of minority groups in the social system are very weak. A building is no longer just to be viewed or to see the space outside, but to facilitate clear and detailed control of the inside - making every movement of the people in the building visible. In more general language, a building should transform people: to act on its occupants, to help control their behavior, to influence them properly, to know them, to change them. --Foucault, "Discipline and Punishment"