Kim Ki-duk's movies all give me a very artistic feeling. He doesn't like to use cool shots to show off his skills, and he doesn't use too many lines to explain the plot. The characters in his stories are often "dumb" and do not like to talk, but they carry a whole world of their own in their hearts. This makes his style very different from that of ordinary commercial film directors, and he belongs to the ranks of new wave directors. He focuses on expressing people's spiritual world, but also expressing his inner world. The most attractive thing about the film is the design and time design of this space. A relatively closed space gives people a sense of mystery. It is also destined that the characters are incompatible with the outside world, which is very beneficial to the discussion of human nature. The timeline here is spring, summer, autumn and winter, but it is not simply the four seasons of the year, but the four stages of life. Spring is the stage of childhood. When we were children, we were not bound by any social morality, nor had we experienced the suffering of the world, but at that time, young monks could already use stones to bind fish, frogs, and snakes. He only finds it fun, without any sense of guilt. Maybe human nature is evil, and it is also what Westerners call the "original sin" consciousness. After that, the old monk's reaction was to tie a stone to the young monk to rescue the little animal that had hurt him. He began to realize that this was a kind of injury, and at the same time, the old monk did not simply tell him that it was a mistake, he was still teaching him how to redeem himself, to forgive his own evil nature, and to reconcile with himself. Xia is a person's youth, and it is also the most youthful and ignorant period. The little monk had grown into a teenager, when a beautiful woman broke into this enclosed space. This woman became the inducement to the deeper sins of the youth. The teenager has never been taught what love is, but he will look twice when he accidentally sees a girl changing clothes, will reach out and touch the girl's body, and will want to have sex with a girl after seeing snakes mating . Lust is also human nature, just like evil. The girl is like a door to the abyss. She lies opposite the boy and opens the sheets to lure him into the abyss of love. At this time, he broke the original constraints in his heart, crossed the boundary, and climbed onto the girl's bed. This is the cause of his sin behind him. Autumn is the period of middle age. After the monk who has not been in contact with the society goes out, he finds that the world is not what he imagined, and love will change. He couldn't accept this cruel blow, which further aroused the deeper evil in his heart and moved to kill. This passage mainly talks about his inner struggle. Winter is the middle and late period of people, a process of reconciling with their inner evil. Life is a hardship and a practice, and it is a process of reconciliation with oneself.
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