"Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring", a Korean movie suitable for a quiet afternoon, drinking tea and savoring.
The film was directed by Kim Ki-duk, whose work was always compared to erotic films. "Empty Room" and "Drifting Desire Room" are his famous masterpieces, Kim Ki-duk is good at expressing the darkness, cruelty and helplessness in human nature in erotic desire. However, it is much more advanced than the erotic film that simply expresses desire, with aesthetics and height, especially like "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring".
"Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring" is not only a beautiful picture, poetic, itself has the value of appreciation of beauty, but also a Zen Buddhist film, the narrative is plain as water, but the artistic conception is far-reaching, with extremely metaphorical techniques, short life fragments, telling the story of human nature, desire, redemption, reincarnation of life original sin story.
To tell the truth, this is a movie that can be read as a book, and when I watched it for the third time, I felt that I had finished my life, and I had realized that I could sit and talk like a monk.
Spring: At the beginning of human nature, it carries a heavy burden
A pure land isolated from the rest of the world, a temple floating on the surface of the water.
The little monk tied stones to the bodies of fish, frogs and snakes, laughing happily as they struggled with their weights. The old monk was silent, and at night while he was asleep, he tied a stone to him, and the next day, asked him to rescue the fish, frogs and snakes that he had bound. He also told him that if the little animals died, the stones on his body would be carried in his heart for a lifetime.
The fish are dead, and the frogs are still alive. When he saw the scene of the snake's tragic death, the little monk cried bitterly and said that he was wrong.
A stubborn nature is innate, but the great stone of sin in the human heart is also innate.
Stubbornness can be taught, and in the constant mistakes of life, from their own behavior, slowly liberated. It is nature for children to be stubborn. It is also nature that the child's heart is not lost.
Happiness in nature is based on the suffering of others without knowing it. Enlightenment certainly awakens them, but indoctrination is minimal. Because in human nature, in addition to the cruelty of nature, there are endless desires.
Man's disposition at the beginning was not good or evil, but the earnest teachings of his predecessors enabled him to distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong, and to know honor and shame. And perceive that all beings are equal and life is precious.
Xia: Greed, lust, anger, delusion, human nature
The little monk grew up, matured, and lustful. After seeing the entanglement of two snakes mating, instinctive desires were aroused.
The serpent is almost a metaphor for sin in the Bible, but also a metaphor for desire. Adam and Eve, seduced by the serpent, stole the forbidden fruit and were banished from the Garden of Eden by God, beginning a heavy life of suffering.
So was the little monk. Few people in the world are spared.
When he met the young girl who came to the temple to heal, the little monk loved Mo Nanshe, and in the initial temptation, mutual look, and day and night, desire burned himself.
When he and the girl performed the first ritual of humanity, the girl who was once dying came to life, and became healthier and more agile. The lost soul of the young girl was found in this love.
The soul has found it back, the illness is better, and since the illness is good, it is naturally time to go down the mountain. The mistake of young boys and girls, who can say, is a mistake? Such beautiful love and sex are exactly what life asks for, and it is the common sentiment of people.
The old monk understood, but how to take care of this desire depended on the creation of each person.
The little monk was an adult, he could not withstand the pain of lovesickness, he was tormented by love, and then he went down the mountain. Desire is obviously not enough, lust, anger, and with it.
The fiery summer is burning, crazy humanity. Temples floating on the water are forbidden to be built on human nature. However, unless it is self-prohibition, others cannot help.
Although the temple has no walls, it has a door, and everyone has a door to enter, which is justified. And the little monk passed through the wall and mixed with the young girl, and at that moment, he had ignored the wall in his heart and committed the many original sins in the Dharma.
In the Bible: The Pharisees caught a woman who was committing adultery to harass Jesus, and the woman's behavior was to be stoned to death according to the law of Moses. Jesus committed a crime of breaking the law if he did not execute a woman, and if he did, he committed murder. Jesus easily resolved the seeming dilemma: Whoever among you is sinless can stone her. When the onlookers heard this, they left one after another, and the birds and beasts scattered.
Original sin is for all.
The little monk could not bear the days and nights of losing the maiden, so he took the statue of Guanyin, left the temple, went down the mountain to return to the customs, and lived a small life in the rolling red dust.
In the face of original sin, the old monk could only understand with his heart and watch from a distance. Life is voluntary. Sin, karma, iniquity, punishment, a high degree of enlightenment in the heart, cannot be penetrated by oneself.
The old monk said that lust awakens the desire to possess, which leads to the scourge of death. Sure enough, when the lust of summer passes, it is the cause and effect of autumn.
3. Autumn: One heart to the Buddha, love and hate are difficult to break
Many years later, in the autumn, the old monk saw a wanted notice in the newspaper, and the young monk had absconded by killing his wife.
The old monk began to sew the monk's robes and accept the young monk who wanted to return.
The young monk, who had grown into a young man, returned and ate the old monk a good beating, but he still could not quench the anger in his heart, and he could not be relieved. He loved her, but she ran away with another man. Unable to love her, the little monk killed her.
The old monk said, what you like, others like.
The implication is that it is also common to like to be disappointed. Love is not reciprocal, and life is not reciprocal. Don't you take ten points of sincerity, you can arouse ten points of sincerity, and if you can't get it, you will destroy the other party?
The most important thing is to liberate yourself. From love and hate, jump out to see things, you can be calm.
The old monk asked him to use the murderous knife and carve the scriptures written on the wooden planks, and before the words were finished, the police came to visit.
Suddenly, the sword was raging. The old monk asked the young monk to continue the engraving.
From the initial rage to the later slow calm, the little monk was exhausted and selfless, and his love and hatred were liberated in the work of total disregard, and the pain was not so painful.
The policemen who came to pick up people shot at the target in front of the sacred Buddhist hall and repeatedly failed to hit, while the old monk, a stone, was hit at random. The seemingly ordinary monk turned out to be another sweeping monk.
The police rowed the boat to take the little monk away, and the boat was in the water and could not paddle for a moment. It turned out that the old monk was also emotional and wanted to leave the little monk. The Dharma is difficult to complete.
After the young monk was taken away, the old monk chose to set himself on fire and died. I closed six doors, but I was still in tears. Looking back on this life, he must have many regrets, the Dharma is endless, even for the old monk who practiced for the first life, it is difficult to complete.
When the little monk did evil, why was he not able to rescue the weak and small aliens in the first place? But let life die?
The old monk's tears were full of too much meaning, and at the last moments of his life, he could not be quiet.
3. Winter: In salvation, complete the practice of the self
The young monk who was released from prison returned and was already a mature middle-aged man. This time, he devoted himself to the Buddha. Atone for your sins.
He chiseled the ice and took out the old monk's seated relics and offered them to the carved Buddha statue.
Opening the relics of the old monk, there is a martial arts secret book. It turned out that the old monk was a high man when he was on earth. No wonder that a shot, a stone, can hit.
The middle-aged young monk began to practice and practice.
One day, a masked woman brought a baby into the temple gate. After crying bitterly, he left the baby and left, in a hurry, but fell into the ice cave that the monk had dug to wash his face. Lost his life.
The monk looks at her true face, but the film shows a Buddha statue, and it turns out that everyone is a Buddha. Buddhism emphasizes karma, past and afterlife. Abandoning her young, she also did evil after all, and got retribution.
In the temple, since then, there has been a small monk. Who knows, the little monk of that year, is also the same background?
The adult monk, faced with the loss of life, could not forgive himself. He once again bore a human life for the ice cave he had carved out.
He took the initiative to carry the stone of repayment and embarked on a long road of redemption. His heavy footsteps were accompanied by flashback fragments of the three creatures he had tortured in his youth, fish, frogs and snakes.
In a tragic piece of music, the monk enshrined the Buddha statue to the top of the mountain, let the Buddha look down on the sentient beings, and completed a period of practice himself.
V. Another Spring: The Great Enlightenment of Life, the Alternating Cycle of Life
In another spring, the abandoned baby became a little monk, and in the mountain stream, he continued the game of the monk when he was a child. The little monk was even more cruel, taking the stone and stuffing it directly into the mouths of fish, frogs and snakes.
Today's old monk has seen through life and will once again lead the little monk to experience the warmth and coldness of human feelings. The little monk will once again encounter problems such as life, lust, hatred and right and wrong.
Another round of life and enlightenment begins.
Generation after generation, driven by human nature, repeats the same behavior, bears similar punishments, and finally understands the true meaning of life in self-realization.
No one can jump out of it, because of the insurmountable nature of human beings.
The Buddha is on a high mountain, overlooking the cycle of life of generation after generation, he does not speak, he does not save, all living beings, only self-realization.
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