Movie Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring

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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring
Overview
This is perhaps one of the most beautiful movies you will come across. It is visually appealing, and you can feel the movie directly speaking to your soul. The movie talks about the cycle that we experience in life. Through each of the seasons, spring, summer, fall, and winter, the director shows us the experiences of a young boy learning about life from an elder monk in a mountain lake in the wilderness. The focus of the movie is on the relationship between the elder monk and a younger one who is trying to learn about the ways of life. The movie starts in spring where the master and the boy gather herbs for healing purposes. In summer, the boy has grown up and has developed an interest in the outside world. It is during this season that he falls in love with a girl brought to the monastery by her mother for healing. He follows the girl after she is healed. In fall the old master takes a cat to be his companion while the young monk, who is now an adult, returns as a fugitive. Winter happens many years after the old monk had died. His student, now a mature adult begins the cycle again by teaching a young boy about life.
Analysis
The single-room house occupied by the master (Oh Young Soo) and the young boy (Sae Jae Kyung) serves as the place where one is taught how to be a monk. Everything on the scene depicts the cultural life practiced by Soo and Kyung. Steep walls of stone and forest surround the lake where the home of the monk and the boy is. It has two large wooden doors that swing ...