Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring

 
    What life is all about? People sometimes ask themselves what life means. One of the most famous Korean film marker Kim Ki-duk, tries to explain and give an answer to that question. In his movie, "Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring", he conveys the meaning of life in four seasons through the religion of Buddhism. 
    The movie start with the scent of a naive smiling of a young monk. He played with a frog, a snake and a fish which were caught and tied onto a stone in spring. This was just a young child's prank bur he got scolded by an old monk. He was said that his behavior would be lifetime karma unless he returned all of those creatures to nature. Several years later, the young monk fell in love with a girl who came to visit the temple for recuperate in one summer. After she left, he also left for the outside world. After a long time, he returned to the temple in the autumn hide himself after murdering his wife. He was mentally tortured by his anger and pain. He left again and came back after the old monk had passed away. He was spending his day, by training body and mind to seek peace. One day, a little boy was left behind by his mother and came to the temple. The new boy monk played just like his childhood. 
    The director tries to show audience about human desires and obsessions in life, the cycle of transmigration, the coexistence of good and evil, and the burden and pain of life. We can learn what life is all about through this movie. Whoever, they are, whatever they experienced the one thing never change is that people must return to Mother Nature's bosom.

 

By Park Eun-cheol , Junior
Dept. of international Business

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