This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

This film is played with such precise acting of natural behaviour that the outcome of the story just deepens your heart and mind in believing why we humans do such cruel activities and leave those who cannot enact decisions for themselves to suffer from our greed and desired darkness that makes us the monster that we are ..... This film is a prime example on why we should look deep in the well of our hearts and souls and try to forgive and understand the simplest of cruel intentions we blind out which then snowballs to this extent of cruel injustice to the innocent that are fallen angels amongst us... This truly is a magnificent movie for those who want to understand the eternal darkness of a corrupted mind...

Exploring a world of frustrated lovers, Oasis manages to delve into a society that seems to destroy the identities of two socially inept people. Oasis is a film in which the acting and direction both take on forms of subtly and explicit movement. Both starring roles of this film have their own unique mannerisms that are constantly pushed to show the awkwardness of their situations. However these mannerisms seem to break when these two come together. As reflected in the title, these characters create their own separate oasis for themselves throughout the movie. The characters themselves seem to represent an idealistic hope of acceptance and love, which in return is constantly shattered throughout the course of the movie. In the end the culture that has neglected and insulted these two, destroys what little hope they have to explore their own potentials as human beings. The interlopers, mostly in the form of family members, constantly relinquish their obligations towards these vulnerable people. A scene in which this most obvious, is the scene where a family photo is being taken. Throughout the course of this brief scene the characters uneasily express their emotions towards the unwanted guests at their party. In defiance the main character abruptly leaves much to the dismay of his brothers showing that his family has completely abandoned their very basic duties towards their own kin. This film continues to build and share the frustration of the characters as the movie progresses. This frustration is juxtaposed against the two lover's ability to fall into a world of their own. The main female actor manages to change from a mentally challenged cripple to a bubbly, lucid individual in a manner of seconds. Watching this transformation happen is truly a feat in acting ability and only adds to the depth of these characters. This melancholic movie is punctuated by the unique Asian style of film making. Long shots accent the awkwardness of the otherwise mundane situations this movie presents us. This film is truly an interesting introspective into the world of the challenged, the aggravated, and the neglected.

It would be nearly impossible for me to deny the true greatness of this film. There are very few films I can think of which contain so much ambition, integrity, conviction, and audacity. It is a love story of rare power, matched only by a precious few others. The concept of the film alone deserves admiration, and the execution is nearly flawless. It manages to avoid practically all the problems which could potentially occur trying to tell a story like this. In the wrong hands, this film could have either been a cloying, condescending mess, or a cruel sickening freak show. But, as is, the film does a great job of keeping a balance, never reducing itself to either, equally false, extreme. Instead the film relentlessly pursues those elusive moments of cinematic truth, and never falters. The extent to which the filmmakers (writer/director and actors alike) remain true to the characters they are portraying is amazing, never reducing them to either grotesque caricature nor helpless objects worthy only of our pity and easy, manipulative tears. Instead, the film takes a truly unflinching, yet nuanced look at mental and physical disability. When you consider that the subject of disability in cinema usually results in sterile, vapid films like "Forrest Gump" and "The Other Sister", "Oasis" is practically a miracle. At times I admit it is hard to watch, but it is honest and never at all mean-spirited. Ultimately the effect is messy, transcendent truthfulness rather than shock or unpleasantness. The only real criticism I have about the film is that I felt the occasional dream sequences were ultimately unnecessary, although for what they were they weren't bad at all, fairly well-done actually.

Maybe the best movie I have ever seen, Well not as good as Casablanca and Citizen Kane, But definitely in the Top Ten. This movie shows that love is available for everyone. When Movie begins you would never think you would feel sorry for the main character but because of the great performance by Kyong-gu Sol and equally so by So-ri Moon You really care about these two people. I do not cry to often during a movie but this brought tears to my eyes. This story of two people, one mentally disabled and the other physically is a pure gem. You feel for these two people and want them to get together.I will not tell the ending but it definitely bittersweet. I wish American movies can be made like this. I don't think American filmmakers are brave enough to do this