"Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Another Spring": Sowing evil causes evil reaps

Once upon a time there was a lake, and in the lake there was a temple, and in the temple there was a little monk with a stone on his back. Why did he carry stones, because he naughtyly tied stones to the bodies of small fish, frogs and snakes, and the master punished him in the same way, making him feel the same evil thoughts that bound him. In the summer more than ten years later, the little monk grew into a vigorous young man. One day, a girl who came to seek medical treatment in the temple stayed for several days. The young man could not control his original desire, and finally escaped with the girl. Temple in the Lake. Years later, in the autumn, because the young man couldn't bear the girl's cheating, he returned to the temple after murdering, hoping to get the Buddha's forgiveness, but he was still arrested by the police.

In the snowy winter, the young man who was released from prison has now entered middle age with a face full of vicissitudes. He returned to the temple and first dug the relic after the master was sitting and hid it in the mountain, and then began to practice painstakingly. One day, a masked woman suddenly visited with her child in her arms. At night, when the woman left the child and fled alone, she fell into the ice lake and drowned. The next day, the middle-aged disciple carried the big stone on his back and hugged the Buddha statue. Another spring comes, and the discarded little monk reincarnates into the mountains just like the young monks of the past to play and let the little fish eat the pebbles.

The film is written, directed and acted by South Korean director Kim Ki-duk. It is divided into four seasons and interprets the different life experiences of a pair of masters and apprentices in a barren mountain temple. Combined with Buddhist concepts, you can feel the vicissitudes of the world. Taking causality as the biggest argument, sowing evil causes reaps evil consequences. It contains many profound metaphors, the door that opens and closes automatically, the ebb and flow of the lake, the grass that is medicinal and poisonous, the two fish in the shoe, the chicken and the cat, the snake on the monk's robe, the woman with no face, the temple without the Buddha statue And the young monk who stole the Buddha statue, the old monk did not stop the young monk's mistakes, and showed the reasoning that fate is determined by the sky.... The film can be said to pay attention to Zen machine everywhere, to achieve Master Hui Neng's transcendent "Bodhi is without a tree, and a mirror is clear." It is not a platform, there is nothing at all, where is it like dust? Among them, the part of going up the mountain with bare backs, in the high-pitched singing, is especially exciting and unforgettable for a long time.

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