In the paragraph about autumn, there is this sentence: "Autumn is a Zen, Zen is a circle, and every side of it is neither aggressive nor yielding."
While watching this film, I remembered this sentence.
Kim Ji-deok's films, aside from the rest, bear the brunt of the fact that there are very few dialogues. And the dialogue itself only points to the topic in depth, and does not directly promote the development of the plot. This requires the viewer to carefully pay attention to every shot, every picture, and even every detail in the picture - the director who studied art background uses skilled lens language. Express yourself very smoothly.
It's a movie so rich and profound that I don't even know what to say about it: every picture has a flavor, every detail has a Zen feel.
Some people say it talks about reincarnation, some people say it talks about redemption, some people say it talks about Buddha, and some people say it talks about Zen. I can't sum up this movie in one sentence - although when I first watched it, I thought it was an excellent monk's growth history, but after seeing it, it became more and more off topic, more and more alienated, and more and more under the surface. The bottomless sentence.
Going back to the beginning, this movie reminds me of the saying: Zen is a circle.
The so-called reincarnation is that no matter how understanding or compassionate, no matter how much you atone for sin, you cannot control the direction of things themselves. Everyone, every life, will be like this.
One leaf boat, one door, life nunnery.
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