Seeing Lee Changdong for the first time (2005.08)

Lavada 2022-10-21 13:17:03

It seems that Kim Ki-duk said that Lee Chang-dong is the best film director in Korea.
Li Changdong is a writer. I had seen his interview on Southern Weekend, but it was my first time watching his movie.
A director who is a writer has a more difficult path to directing a film than a cinematographer, an artist, a painter, etc., but if one considers that the screenwriter is also a writer, then it is logical for a writer to become a director, and the number is also the same. Big -- in fact, very few directors have never written a script. Furthermore, as a layman in the film industry, the most convenient and cost-effective way to enter the film industry is to write a script—that is, to become a "film writer"! With the advent of the era of reading pictures - some people say that this is the era of reading pictures, but I think it is not thorough enough - I believe that more and more writers will turn from writers to film directors or other types of filmmakers . The famous writer Zhu Wen transformed himself into a famous film director. And the guy named Ma Yuan who wrote the square characters also made a movie, which is unknown. Lao Ma even said in a TV interview that novels are dead, and that the way out is for writers who write to "draw pictures" (to the effect). Lao Ma seems to be intentionally inciting the majority of writers and peers to write and follow. The spirit of Lao Ma's "Second Revolution" (Lao Ma's "First Revolution" opened the door to the writing of avant-garde novels) has also deeply infected an unknown person like me. Xiao Ke has no connections or backers in the film industry. If you want to enter the industry, it seems that there is no other way except writing.
Gossip off to mention, get down to business.
In my eyes, "Oasis" is a very difficult film to direct. Therefore, Director Li won the Best Director Award at the 59th Venice International Film Festival, fully deserved. I can't believe the heroine's acting too - she's a normal person! A normal person contorting himself for the sake of acting, I have never seen anything more cruel than the heroine in Oasis, the South African beauty is nothing compared to her.
This movie is about disabled people, but it is not the disabled people in the film that shock us, but the normal people, who are even more terrifying. I have to say that when normal people think they are normal, the world starts to look scary, even beyond recognition. ...I'm going to say that it's about to become a big discussion of humanitarianism. All right, I shut up.

View more about Oasis reviews