Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... Spring (2003)
One of the greatest movies ever.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... Spring (봄, 여름, 가을, 겨울 그리고 봄, Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom), made in 2003 by Kim Ki-Duk.
A shrine, floating on a mountain lake, surrounded by endless forests. A small boat, to link to the ground. There is the gate, perhaps some fences too, only the movie doesn't show the fences, as we pass from one world to another only through the gate.
Probably inside the shrine the rooms have also walls, the movie doesn't show them either. What would be the use anyway? Use is there only for doors, to open and to close.
Everything is slow there, the shrine is for meditation. An old monk, and along with him a dog, a cat, a roster, a snake, are they the spirits of the deceased monks? Once we accept the movie convention, we enter the zen space.
And an apprentice, a kid who is raised by the old monk and is finding his road in life.
Here, so far from the world, is the road of life, here the apprentice learns the great and simple lessons of life, and each age is like a season.
Innocence, passion, sin, loose of hope, repentance, illumination ... innocence again - the endless road of life.
The surrounding mountains are full of small statues of Buddha- each one was carried in its place by some monk, long time ago - each monk started as an apprentice and found its way to holiness through trial and error, through sin and repentance
It's so beautiful !
(Kim Ki-Duk)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... Spring (봄, 여름, 가을, 겨울 그리고 봄, Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom), made in 2003 by Kim Ki-Duk.
A shrine, floating on a mountain lake, surrounded by endless forests. A small boat, to link to the ground. There is the gate, perhaps some fences too, only the movie doesn't show the fences, as we pass from one world to another only through the gate.
Probably inside the shrine the rooms have also walls, the movie doesn't show them either. What would be the use anyway? Use is there only for doors, to open and to close.
Everything is slow there, the shrine is for meditation. An old monk, and along with him a dog, a cat, a roster, a snake, are they the spirits of the deceased monks? Once we accept the movie convention, we enter the zen space.
And an apprentice, a kid who is raised by the old monk and is finding his road in life.
Here, so far from the world, is the road of life, here the apprentice learns the great and simple lessons of life, and each age is like a season.
Innocence, passion, sin, loose of hope, repentance, illumination ... innocence again - the endless road of life.
The surrounding mountains are full of small statues of Buddha- each one was carried in its place by some monk, long time ago - each monk started as an apprentice and found its way to holiness through trial and error, through sin and repentance
It's so beautiful !
(Kim Ki-Duk)
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