Miyang is closer to poetry, but more human than divine. These two award-winning works are not my favorite.
Social disadvantaged groups have always been the protagonists in Li Changdong's films, but in this film, foreign single women not only fight against a complete and formed society, but also against the nihilistic God. This topic is still too grand and distant for me. If you think about it carefully, in fact, works of this type are still very common, but Li Cangdong has made fate into a substance, making the contradiction more acute, and handling the process of man's resistance to fate more simply.
After watching this film, I don't really understand his attitude towards Christianity. Previously in the oasis, the pastor visiting Chung-doo as a representative of God did indeed give Chung-doo an opportunity to escape from the police station and cut down trees for Gong-soo. In this film, the final ending of Shin Ae is understood as rebirth, so what did God bring?
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