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Michael Atkinson
"Lee
Chang-dong's Oasis is, at first blush, one of those occasional
miracles
that approach leapingly scandalous material with a superhuman
charity and somehow dodge charges of tastelessness. In
the end, it's a daring heartbreaker"
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Stephen Holden
"Oasis" strips
away much of the sentimentality and goody-two-shoes attitudes
that the movies traditionally display toward disabled people.
At the same time, it coolly indicts an indifferent world
that treats its misfits as inconvenient, half-witted children
who are easily exploited and abused."
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David Rooney
"A mesmerizing story of outcast lovers on the margins of a cruelly unaccommodating
world, "Oasis" is an eloquent expression of both unorthodox romance
and bitter disillusionment with the hypocritical institutions of family and society."
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John Powers
Oasis is at once a moving love story, a sharp social comedy and a fierce political
commentary on how Korean society cruelly represses outsiders. It's also
a triumph of artistic indirection: Not a single scene plays out the way
you expect it to.
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