Among Kim Ki-deok's films, Spring and Summer is a rare film without scenes and plots that cause physical discomfort. From the aesthetics of the picture, it is even pleasurable to body and mind.
For a segregated society, it is not enough for a temple to be built on a mountain, but to float in the middle of a lake. This design is really wonderful, I especially like the gauze-like mist that covers the water in the morning and the temples that are lit up in the water at night. The old monks in the temple did not teach Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist principles to the young monks, nor did they give them any homework. They taught the young monks to collect and know medicines and make medicines. The old monks also secretly practiced martial arts and magic skills. The thing in the temple is to save people's bodies and strengthen their bodies, but they don't read scriptures and chanting Buddhas to cultivate their minds. Kim Ji-deok has doubts about reading and social education. The protagonists in all his films must be wild, not contaminated by books, and little monks should not be contaminated. They should not be literate, cultivated, moral, and responsible for some illegal nature. have. Ordinary educated people avoid animal cruelty, lewdness, murder, or extreme anger, not to mention monks. The monk's social identity attribute does not have any constraints on his behavior, because the little monk is a person in the original sense, not a person in the social sense. Our naked primal desires and psychological attributes are determined by the collective unconscious and genes of human beings, education is the cloak over nakedness, and the cloak of the elite is especially strong and beautiful. In the world of intellectual discourse power, this layer of clothing represents everything, and all his efforts are to make his coat more gorgeous, in order to distinguish the underclassmen who are naked and naked, and their films are full of praise The fruits of indoctrination, or pity for those who have been left behind. Jin Ji-deok is different. He ripped off everyone's coats as soon as he came up. In Jin Ji-de's opinion, whether it's rags or brocade clothes, the soul hidden underneath is the same. But it would be too monotonous for the intellectual elite to look at things this way. They naturally wouldn't let Kim Ki-duk get involved in their circles. Of course, in the final analysis, it's embarrassing that Kim Ki-duk exposed their unclothed ugliness. After the monk came out of prison and returned to the temple, he still did not find the scriptures for practicing Buddhism, but what he found was a martial arts secret book left by the old monk, and he also began to practice. The most important thing is to train your body well, don't get distracted by reading the scriptures.
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