After a Long time i saw a Good movie.I am Very much impressed by this Movie. Spring,Sumer,Fall,Winter and Spring is the South Korean Movie Directed by Ki-duk Kim in 2003.This Film Divided into Five Sections with the five season of the Title. This story tells about the five different stage in the Life of a Buddhist monk.One Line :The Story of a Buddhist monk.
Spring :
This is the First section of the film. This section is about a young Buddhist apprentice who is live with his master in a small floating monastery situated in middle of the lake in forested mountains. They both lived their life very peacefully by doing prayer and meditation.They use a small rowboat to reach the bank of the lake.There they will go walking for exercise and collect some herbs.One Day the apprentice monk torments a fish by tying a small stone and laugh when the fish struggle to swim and shortly after he does the same thing to a frog and a snake. His Master quietly observes all the three thing done by the Buddhist apprentice. That Night he ties a heavy stone on the back of the apprentice while he sleeps.In the morning he tells his apprentice that he cannot take off the rock until he unties the creatures he tormented - adding that if any of them have died, he will "carry the stone in his heart forever".The boy search for the creatures with heavy load on his back. finally he find the fish in the dead condition,finds the frog still alive and struggling where he left it, and finds the snake in a pool of blood.The master watches as the boy begins to cry heavily upon seeing what he has done to the snake.Summer :
The apprentice (now in his teenage years) encounters a mother and daughter walking along the forest path, looking for the lake monastery.The apprentice silently greets them and rows them across the lake to the monastery.There he came to know that the daughter has an unspecified illness.So her Mother brought her to Buddhist master and hopes that she will be healed.The master agrees to take in the teenage girl for a time, and the mother leaves.Over the next few days, the apprentice finds himself sexually attracted to the girl, but is too shy to say anything.One day the two wander off into the forest alone and have sex.They repeat the act over the next few nights, hiding their relationship from the master, until he discovers them asleep and naked, drifting around the lake in the rowboat.One day the master finds the two of them sleeping naked in middle of the lake in a rowboat.Rather than expressing anger or disappointment, he merely warns his apprentice that "desire leads to attachment, and attachment leads to intention to kill", but does tell him that the girl will have to leave. The apprentice reacts emotionally to this, and in the middle of the night runs away from the monastery in pursuit of the girl, taking the monastery's Buddha statue with him.Fall :
Many years later, in "Fall" the aging master returns from a supply run to the local village, and by chance glimpses a warrant for the arrest of his former apprentice, wanted for the murder of his wife.After some times the adult apprentice appears in the spiritual door at the lake's edge, still full of anger and carrying the bloodstained knife with which he stabbed his wife.he seals his eyes, mouth and nose in a suicide ritual and sits in front of the newly returned Buddha statue, waiting for death; the master discovers him, and beats him ruthlessly.then begins painting "Heart Sutra" on one side of the monastery deck, by dipping his cat's tail into a tin of black paint.The apprentice cuts his hair off and starts carving the Chinese characters out of the wood.As he carves and the master paints, two detectives arrive at the monastery and try to arrest the apprentice, but the master asks them to let him finish his task. The apprentice continues without stopping, and collapses into sleep immediately upon finishing.The apprentice finally wakes up, and is taken away by the detectives. After they leave, the master, knowing he is at his end, builds a pyre in the rowboat. He seals his ears, eyes, nose and mouth with paper in the same suicide ritual and meditates as he is suffocated and burned to death.Winter :
The middle-aged apprentice returns to the frozen lake and to his former home, which has been drifting uninhabited for decades. He finds his master's clothes, laid out just before his death, and digs his master's remains out of the frozen rowboat, setting them to rest in the Buddha statue under a waterfall. He finds a book of choreographic meditative stances, and begins to train and exercise relentlessly in the freezing weather. Eventually, a woman comes to the monastery with her baby son and a shawl wrapped around her face. She seeks to leave her son with the monk and flee, but as she tries to leave in the middle of the night, she stumbles into a hole in the ice the monk dug earlier and drowns. Finding her body the next day causes him to tie the monastery's large, circular stone to his body and climb to the summit of the tallest surrounding mountain holding another statue, which he places there........and Spring :
Finally, in returning to "Spring", the cycle is completed: the new master lives in the monastery with the abandoned baby, now his apprentice. The boy is shown to torment a tortoise and, wandering into the rocky hills, echoes his predecessor, forcing stones into the mouths of a fish, frog and snake.Interesting News about the Story :
1.The director himself appears as the man in the last stage of life.
2.The Floating Boat House is artificially constructed on top of Jusan Pond in Korea
3.The traditional song used near the end of the film, while the adult monk is climbing the mountain, is called "Jeongseon Arirang", sung by Kim Young-im.
Enjoyable Scenes :
1.After the cops take the young adult monk away and the old monk is standing on the monastery watching them he stops the boat with his power after the adult monk turns and see him the he release the boat.
2.The Song which is played in background when the young adult monk climbs the mountain
