Ki-duk kim's 'spring, summer, fall, winter...and spring'

Hiro's friend asked him to watch the film. The reason is obvious. Hiro told me to watch it too and i watched it with another man.

To watch the nature of Korea was... making my heart to explode (and also the set is from my family's (not my) hometown). I recognized the shape of mountains (and their reflections on lake surface), the clouds, the rocks, the colors of water, everything. It is amazing how one can feel so attached to the nature. He wanted to watch a French film because he could see the landscape of Provence. I cried when I went to Korea after four years to see the korean pine trees in the mountain.

Why do we feel attached to the nature? Would I cry to see the old hometown city view? Maybe because the spirits reside only in the nature?

On the floating temple in the middle of the lake, surrounded by the mountains,

One man goes through the life, like the seasons go,

Spring, he is young, he tortures a sname, a fish, and a frog by binding them to a small piece of stone.

Summer, he falls in love with a girl who came to the temple to cure her illness. They make love, and the master finds out, she leaves, and he follows.

Fall. He lives a life full of anger, because she left him for another man. He kills his wife, and flees back to the temple. He lives his sentence in prison. The master burns himself.

Winter. He comes back, and live in piece.

Spring. A woman with a scarf on her face brings a baby and dies.

During "fall," when he was still full of anger, the master writes the full text of prajnaparamita sutra on the floor of the temple. He asks the man to carve them out. With policemen watching him down to take him to prison, with all his energy, he finishes carving.

"Perfection of Wisdom"

색즉시공 色卽是空 공즉시색 空卽是色 All phenomena is void "emptiness," "emptiness" is all phenomena.

How much time it even took me to understand a little bit of this deep idea. Because I was against of the idea of "emptiness" But, this simple sentence has so many levels. Eventually, it is liberating.

So, then, the master is teaching him to lose attachment.

Maybe I am my own way, because I grew up with Buddhism and I studied it. I am fundamentally too non-attached, so I tried to feel more "attachment."

I love this statue.

When the man finds out the mother of the child (possibly the woman he loved) died, he burdens himself with a huge rock and take this statue to put on the top of the mountain. The statue looks down on the sea of mountain.