Like Hemingway, it's short and concise sentences.
A scene strives to be solved with one shot, but does not pursue too formal long shots. Please don't underestimate this "one shot". It is Bong Joon-ho in "Memories of Murder" who use "single shot" in Korean movies so superbly. For this reason, it is not an exaggeration to call Li Cangdong a master dispatcher.
In his "Single Shot", the beginnings and turns of a scene happen little by little. For example, when the male protagonist visited his ex-wife's house in the spring of 1999, Li Cangdong placed the camera (from the audience's point of view) in his ex-wife's room and filmed the male protagonist from behind his ex-wife. We first saw a closed door accompanied by a knock on the door. The ex-wife (part of the body out of focus) opened a crack in the door. The male protagonist's head suddenly leaked out of the crack, and the chain on the door was tightened. Through a single shot, Li Cangdong hinted at the past of the down-and-out male protagonist, and explained all the points of information that should be revealed in this scene. And that simplicity and precision pervade the entire film. (Called from a mobile phone, so many first)
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