White Sores Lip Piercing

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and spring

Director: Kim Ki-duk
Country: South Korea
Year: 2003
Length: 102 min. approx. Trailer



A poem about the moral? Rather, a metaphor about life is that Kim Ki Duk provides us with a very atypical speech in his films characterized by superb dramas, as beautiful as acute, subtle and exquisitely violent.

The four seasons of life is a Buddhist tale that can be as boring as you want ... why boring?, by its palpable shortage of dialogue, his one scene, our ignorance of that culture and more important, it's predictable and obvious. Also, it can be as pretentious as they assimilate what this for what, in his attempt to dress in spirituality, giving lessons at each station and which are not really new, because you will not miss those who feel that part of the message is to extol the virtue of the venerable East ... and for even deeper into this topic. But no ... I think it's much more attractive and simple than that.

The film puts us in a temple floating on a lake, away from the world of men and sheltered by the mountains. In this isolated temple doors in the living room a couple of monks (one adult and one child) and this is where we will see a few lessons taught by the antagonist of the story: human nature. From a very schematic and cyclic life exposes us:

Spring - Children - Innocence:
awareness of the impact of our actions is the awakening / loss of innocence. We can not be doing as we please and joy in the world.

Summer - Adolescence - Passion / Desire:
Lust generates ambition and greed leads to murder, which we can understand as the desire to own and lead this effort to have given the destruction of that which we appreciated / love.

Autumn - Young Adult - Fall.
anger aroused jealousy and blinded it seeks revenge sated in that instead of relief brings bitterness and pain.
Seeking redemption, longing for the past where everything was simpler, to assume responsibilities.

Winter - Maturity.
After all what is life but a host of agents decisions these beautiful and painful experiences? The only conduit to the wisdom and experience is the time, that is their cost.

And beyond that is the source of the sins of others (this is literal, birth, baby) and agreed death and self clean of sins (which Viking on a pyre).


In my opinion, a film that while it is predictable, a teaching plan more than obvious, has a mystical lyricism, warm and highly symbolic (from animals to the seasons and actions) that are left wanting. It is not my favorite movie of Kim at all, and fails to touch me as others do, but it's worth see and remember what we already know and like each other in this life because it is easier to forget.


I watched it on DVD so I have no links to suggest, but movies that goes Azalea quality I found so I can use them: click here.