In Hegel's "absolute idea", art, religion and philosophy are all ways of realizing and understanding oneself of absolute truth, and among the three, art is the most concrete, and religion and philosophy are more abstract. The sensuous manifestation of the Absolute Idea". Religion and philosophy have always added rich perceptual content to art. In different cultural backgrounds, stories and metaphors about Christianity have been the enduring themes of Western art, while in the East, Buddhism and Zen have penetrated deeply. Creation of works of art. Kim Ki-deok's "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Another Spring" is such a film that attempts to interpret life in a Zen way. The film's narrative is very neat and can be regarded as divided into four chapters according to the seasons, and the spring of the second year is divided into four chapters. as an epilogue. The story takes place in a picturesque temple. The temple is surrounded by lakes, and a small boat goes in and out, which coincides with the crossing people and self crossing in Buddhism. There is a gate on the bank as the gate of the temple, but it is amazing that there are no fences on both sides of the gate. Obviously, the symbolic meaning of this gate in the film is greater than the actual meaning. the door in the heart. The story uses four seasons to correspond to the four stages in the life of the little monk: the abstinence of killing small animals as a child; the abstinence of sexual misconduct with young girls; the arrest of murderers who could not curb their own desires when they were young to atone for their actions; Go to the temple, take over the old monk who passed away, and adopt the baby abandoned in the temple in the next spring. The film does not pursue a natural plot arrangement, but deliberately highlights the conceptualization and ingenious design in the film, creating a rhythm of repetition and change with repeated and progressive passages. The four chapters of the film are introduced with a similar scene. The camera is aimed at the closed courtyard door, and as the door is opened, different scenery is presented. And in the spring of another year, the wooden door was painted in color, as if heralding a new life. Seasonal characteristics can also be used as a metaphor for life stages. The water surrounding the temple can be understood as a surging desire, and the people living in it are alone in a boat. In summer, the water level rises over the gate of the temple, and the mundane desire of the little monk and the girl to have fun has already overwhelmed the Buddhist discipline; and when the winter comes, the little monk walks on the frozen lake, which means that he has no worries. , at this time there is no need for boats to ferry. In the narration process, the film also pays great attention to the connection and continuity between the plots, and uses repetition and variation to create a sense of rhythm that progresses layer by layer. In the chapter "Spring", when a young monk hurts small animals to receive education, this behavior is represented by two similar events: the young monk grabs fish, frogs, and snakes, and ties stones on them in turn, and the old monk look uphill The little monk who laughed at the mischief; the old monk also watched all this when the little monk was punished for untying the rope one by one and crying when he found the animal dead. In order not to make the narrative repetitive and monotonous, the film has adjusted the shooting method. When the old monk appeared for the first time, he climbed up from the hillside and entered the picture. The focus moved from the young monk to the old monk, and the second shot from the bottom to the top. The monk shakes the old monk and separates the two in different frames. There are many detailed clues running through the film, such as snake imagery. The most well-known symbol of the snake is the seducer in the Garden of Eden, and in Buddhism, the snake represents hatred on the one hand, and on the other hand, the story of the snake protecting the Buddha from the rain also means that it is a spiritual creature. . The young monk in "Chun" encountered a snake outside the temple, and when he left the temple again, the incident of cruelty to small animals occurred; at the beginning of "Xia", the young monk saw a pair of mating snakes in the wild, and then he broke his precept because of a girl who came to the temple to recuperate. When the old monk in "Autumn" set himself on fire, a snake swam through the water and crawled over the floor full of heart sutras; in "Winter", when the young monk returned to the temple after half his life, he saw that the old monk had left behind a snake. The snake on the clothes stretches out and crawls away, symbolizing the unraveling of a "knot" in life. The evil that started with the stones tied to the small animals has also become a heavy burden to bear in life throughout the whole film. The old monk taught the young monk, "If those small animals die, you will carry this big stone in your heart in the future. "The stone", the behavior of the little monk caused irreversible consequences, a physical stone began to become a symbolic, irreversible obstacle to life, the wheel of fortune began to turn, and desire and hatred gradually overwhelmed Life, until the "Winter" chapter, the little monk's sentence is over, and after rehabilitating and returning to the temple, the film uses a lot of space to depict the little monk holding a Buddha statue, dragging a heavy grinding wheel to climb to the top of the mountain, and the evil thoughts once again manifested as a piece The stone, when the stone is removed from the body, also symbolizes the real awakening from the sins of the past. Other similar details can be seen everywhere in the film. The little monk opened his eyes four times at night to look at the girl sleeping opposite. The first time the girl was asleep, the second time the two looked at each other briefly and the little monk turned around in a hurry, the third time he Stepping over the master to lie down next to the girl, the fourth time the two of them had a tryst on the boat, the desire in their hearts walked step by step to an irreversible abyss. The girl sat on the stone carving at the door twice. At first, the little monk asked her to get up according to the master's order. Later, he took the initiative to clean the stone carving and use it as a stool for the girl. Taught at a young age to distinguish between "death-killing" herbs and poisons, "even though they look the same," treats a seriously ill girl and saves herself. And the final progression constitutes In a reincarnation, the old monk passed away, the young monk received the abandoned baby, and the temple became one old and one young again. What is terrifying is that at the end of the film, the children playing outside the temple did the same thing as the young monk did. Move, caught fish, frogs and tadpoles, and stuffed stones into the small animals' mouths. Like the original sin theory in Western religions, the film seems to show a kind of stubborn evil by nature. Even in the pure land of Buddhism, people seem to still fall into an inescapable fate. Before the young monk was arrested, the old monk asked him to carve the "Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra" on the floor to remove distracting thoughts from his heart. The passage can be called one of the most beautiful and philosophical fragments in the film. Form, Unfeeling, Thought, Action and Consciousness... During the expedition, Buddhism has been imprinted in my heart without a trace. In "Why Bodhidharma", the old monk said to the young monk before his death: "I have no substance in the universe, but in the universe, there is no thing that is not my existence." Returning to the invisible is not to disappear into nothingness, but to return to the void again. into the harmonious unity of man and nature. "Feelings in the world bring connection and passion, and in the end you lose what you love and therefore experience grief." The discussion between the old monk and the young monk seemed to be an accurate summary of the emotional tragedy of the young monk, who questioned the Buddhists leaving their loved ones The "human nature" of practice, questioning who the Buddha is and who the Buddha is not, there are still too many thoughts like this without answers, but the important thing is, just like Hegel's theory, when free thinking takes the place of representative consciousness, religion begins to move towards philosophy. Schopenhauer, who was deeply influenced by Hinduism and Buddhism, proposed the theory of the will of life, which believed that people are blind and purposeless desires, and the way to get rid of the pain in life is to abandon desires, which may be a pessimistic interpretation of Buddhist asceticism. And he also proposed another way, through artistic creation without utilitarian aesthetics to achieve the state of self-forgetfulness, so as to forget the pain of life. Perhaps, this is why there is "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring". Public account / tone radio
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