Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring 2003 123movies

Watch: 봄 여름 가을 겨울 그리고 봄 2003 123movies, Full Movie Online – In the midst of the Korean wilderness, a Buddhist master patiently raises a young boy to grow up in wisdom and compassion, through experience and endless exercises. Once the pupil discovers his sexual lust, he seems lost to contemplative life and follows his first love, but soon fails to adapt to the modern world, gets in jail for a crime of passion and returns to the master in search of spiritual redemption and reconciliation with karma, at a high price of physical catharsis….
Plot: An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.
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Ratings:

	8.0/10 Votes: 83,443
	94% | RottenTomatoes
	85/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 871 Popularity: 15.579 | TMDB

Reviews:

The Diamond Sutra (or the Prajnaparamita Sutra)
After watching the movie a second time, I was determined to find out what the Old Monk had drawn on the deck of the hermitage. The only clue I had was the scene’s subtitle: “Prajnaparamita Sutra – it helps restore inner peace.” Those were the words the Old Monk used to describe the sacred teachings that the Young Monk had to carve out as penance for his crime of passion. When I looked up the Prajnaparamita Sutra on the internet, I found out it was known as the Diamond Sutra of the Buddha.

The Buddha spoke the wise words in a monastery near Sravasti, saying that “this sutra should be called the Diamond that cuts through illusion because it has the capacity to cut through illusions and afflictions and bring us to the shore of liberation.” There are 32 sutras or sections, and the 32 sections are also “marks” that are used to meditate on “the Tathagata” – which means “the suchness of all things (dharmas).” The meaning of Tathagata is “does not come from anywhere and does not go anywhere.” The insight into the truth of the sutras consists in a realization that “the idea of a self is not an idea, and the ideas of a person, a living being, and a life span are not ideas either.” A self-realized or awakened “Buddha” is called a Buddha because he/she is free of ideas.

The “Buddha” in the Diamond Sutra is also called the World-Honored One, and his message can be summarized by two axioms: (1) “Someone who looks for me in form or seeks me in sound is on a mistaken path and cannot see the Tathagata.” (2) “All composed things are like a dream, a phantom, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning. That is how to meditate on them, that is how to observe them.”

Now I will have to watch the movie a third time and meditate on the 32 marks that the Old Monk draws with the cat’s tail on the floor of the ashram. I will also feel the urge to count and see if there are really 32 marks.

What you see is what you get – a simple but very effective piece of film-making
‘Spring, Summer, Autumn – (or Fall, if you will)- Winter…and Spring’ is, as the title should imply, a fable very much in the ‘cycle of life’ cache, so simply crafted and yet so flowing with gentle complexity at the same time. It works wonders both as an episodic coming of age saga concerning one man’s life-long quest for inner peace and balance, and a refreshing type of character study where actions and physical mannerisms are thrust more attention than words; the dialogue here is minimal, yet the two key characters still display a surprising amount of depth – every subtle tear and drop of sweat adds up – and I found myself completely drawn in by it. The background settings are as delightfully picturesque as background settings come, and the movie’s pacing is both gradual and thoughtful, while still leaving room for some slight drizzles of drama, and a handful of haunting, even harrowing, moments which capture the rougher side of living, but nothing to detract from the overall calming sensation you’re left with. The result is a seriously unique slice of life and inspiration, and hats off to Ki-duk Kim for it.

Overall, things are left ambiguous enough for us viewers to draw our own merry conclusions, and so rich in all those little minor details which build up the bigger picture that you could spend hours assessing them right down to the very last shade of blue, and dissecting each and everything for all the symbolism and abstract concepts they might embody. It’s one of those flicks that has different meanings to different people, I guess. Personally, I’d be happy enough taking it on its direct face value level – things are what they are, they’re there because they’re there, and what you’re seeing is exactly what you get. Cast all possible symbolism aside and it’s still a perfectly effective offering about the trials and triumphs of one man’s life. And yes, this particular life’s complicated enough without all those itty-bitty extra meanings.

The Holy Man’s ever-changing assortment of animal companions are probably the best example. We go through the various seasons always with a puppy, chicken, cat, snake or tortoise successively at our sides, and viewers are liable fill up an entire message board debating whether it’s the positive or negative aspects of our protagonist they’re meant to symbolize – the chicken being lust and brashness, and the puppy being youthful ignorance, the cat being idleness, etc.

But really, their exact species, in most cases, is pretty incidental – their reason for being there doesn’t need to be anything more complicated than simply to emphasize time and the changes it entails. A different animal with every new ‘season’ further marks the shift in time since our last visit to the temple. Note also that the snake arrives on the scene exactly as the older man departs (you don’t really need to be familiar with Buddhist practices to follow this one, although it might be helpful to know that apparently that is actually an established self-cremating ritual which comes of knowing the exact moment of your death in advance, and not a suicide by any means), and you can take it as a hint that it may well be his reincarnated self (it’s lovely BTW to finally find a flick where snakes are represented in a positive frame). In light of that, isn’t it also kinda tempting to subscribe to the possibility that the remaining four could also be the reincarnated souls of the temple’s former residents, whoever they might be? That notion satisfies me a lot more than that of the chicken just standing in for some hot burning passion, or whatever.

Then there’s the mysterious woman who arrives at the temple with a cloth covering her face. And that’s all she really is – a mysterious woman who arrives at the temple with a cloth covering her face. Her exact identity isn’t revealed, and nor does it have to be. And we don’t really have any means of working it out either, so why worry about that? It is clear though that she’s a desperate person in such dire straits that she’s forced to conceal her real identity and depart ways with her son, and we can still feel for her on that.

In short, this film is what you make of it, and it more or less goes without saying that it only becomes a complicated puzzle if you make it one.

My own personal quest for inner peace still continues but, needless to say, this movie provided me with 103 beautiful minutes of escapism and bliss.

Other Information:

Original Language ko
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 8945072
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Kim Ki-duk
Writer Kim Ki-duk
Actors Kim Ki-duk, Oh Yeong-su, Jong-ho Kim
Country South Korea, Germany
Awards 16 wins & 9 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383)