"Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Another Spring" is a representative film by South Korean director Kim Ki-duk. With a temple as the background, it integrates the pain, troubles, relief, love and hate that should be experienced in life, explaining that life is like a circle of four seasons, The truth of endless life is a profoundly complex film.
When watching Kim Ki-deok's films, there is usually a particularly refreshing and peculiar feeling that comes to my mind. Between the little monk and the master, there are only a few words in daily life and five short stories with a rather leisurely Zen flavor. The language is also compressed to the simplest, and the aftertaste in the blank space is long, profound and meaningful, but it is even more shocking. His story is very different, it can be said to be otherworldly, and the Zen flavor is self-evident.
The film is divided into four chapters according to the four seasons, depicting the various emotions and six desires that the little monk experienced as he became an old monk: when he was a child, he was addicted to playing and killing life, carrying a debt of his heart, when he was young, he returned to the city to pursue love, when he was middle-aged, he killed his wife and went to prison. Taking in orphans in the temple, as if he was a child, the meaning of reincarnation is impressively presented.
The five thought-provoking short stories with Zen-like meanings are not only written throughout the four seasons of life, but also deeply imbued with human feelings and truths. As the title tells us, the four seasons are the cycle of life. Life is not only a process of continuous advancement in childhood, youth, youth, middle age, and old age, but also a process of pushing oneself and others, comprehending one's appearance, controlling oneself, taking responsibility, and reincarnating.
People and people, people and things, people and time and space, when all the impurities are removed, only the most Zen life essence and philosophical thinking are left.
A "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Another Spring", which writes about the vicissitudes of the world and the romance of the world. Instant joy and love and hate, reluctance to climb and pursue. Non-stop, eternal reincarnation. Life is such a long spiritual journey.
When wood flourishes, spring, fire leads to summer, gold leads to autumn, and water leads to winter. Each of us carries the Stone of Destiny of Reincarnation.
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