“Oasis” A love story that crosses borders

"Oasis" synopsis

John Doe, a young man who was imprisoned in his brother's place and recently released, returns to his family, but everyone hates him. One day, he visits the victim's family's apartment and meets Gong-joo, a woman left alone in a lonely room. Kong-joo, who suffers from cerebral palsy, lives in a fantasy world in his room. The two are attracted to each other and develop a pure love, but no one around them tries to understand them. And then a certain incident happens...

Index

• nameless man and princess
• A sense of reality as if you were standing there.
• The Birds courtship behavior

nameless man and princess

It was quite late when I encountered director Lee Chang-dong's ``Oasis'' (2002). That was when the revival was released in 2019. It felt like a hammer had been swung down on my head. A soul-shaking experience. I remember feeling dazed after watching it, wondering if such an amazing movie existed in the world. If you haven't seen it yet, I seriously urge you to watch it as soon as possible.

The story begins when a young man, Jung-du (Sol Kyung-gu), returns to his family after completing his sentence for a hit-and-run incident. However, no one welcomes him as he is the nuisance of the family. When he eventually visits the apartment of the victim's family to apologize, he finds there a woman named Gong-joo (Moon So-ri), who is physically disabled due to cerebral palsy. Conversation is difficult because he has difficulty speaking. Jung-do and Gong-joo eventually develop a strange sense of solidarity and become irreplaceable to each other.

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"' Oasis' is just a love story. There was no special reason for it; I had always wanted to write a love story, and I had an inner desire to experience that kind of love." I wanted to show you what I can do.” (*1)

says Lee Chang-dong. Yes, this movie is just a love story. A universal love story where a man and a woman meet and fall in love. As the story progresses, it turns out that Jeong-do goes to prison in place of his brother who was involved in a hit-and-run, and Gong-joo is left alone in his old apartment. However, Lee Chang-dong probably does not want to mess with South Korea's social problems. At times, he cuts out fragments of the love between Outsider who have been driven to a corner of the world, sometimes with surprisingly coldness, and other times with a surprisingly gentle gaze.

"In the past, I lost my destination in a maze. I didn't know the reason for living. But I was able to survive because of you. I want to give everything to you. I'll walk to the sky for you."

When Jung-do sings passionately about his love for his beloved at karaoke, Gong-joo sings softly like this on the station platform.

"If I were the sky, I'd want to be dyed in your face. Like the red sunset, I'd want to be dyed in your cheeks."

John Doe = John Doe is a slang word that means ``unnamed man'' in English, and Gongju means ``princess'' in Korean. Yes, ``Oasis'' is a story about a nameless man who falls in love with a princess. I want you to remember the scene when the two first met. She lights up the room with a hand mirror, and the light shines directly into John Doe's eyes, causing him to look like he's dazzling several times. From the beginning, Gong-joo was a dazzling presence for John-do.

A sense of reality as if you were standing there.