Spring, summer, fall, winter..... and spring

That's the name of the South Korean I watched awe-struck on NDTV Lumiere (Thanks for the guys who conceived showing cinema in its core artistic, a-commercial essence to all of us masses)

It was the story of a tiny little monastery floating on a raft across a lake surrounded by idyllic mountains. The director or the guy who chose the spot gets full marks as heaven can't possibly be more beautiful than this. A monk who stays alone there receives an abandoned child. Life of this carefree child (spring) as he grows into his passionate youth (summer), runs away from his master to follow the girl who came to get cured into this monastery and eventually murders her on finding her cheating (fall), comes back to the monastery for penance where he is taken by the law and returns again on being released from jail amidst snow to find his master gone (winter), gets another abandoned child from an unhappy mother and goes on rearing him (.... spring) - is painted in this movie (whoo...... what a long sentence, dear.. let me catch some breath!!! :))

The movie is a masterpiece with not a single frame wandering purposelessly, but there was no overt expression. There is an incident in which the little boy ties a stone through thread around a fish, a frog and a snake just for fun.. as little boys used to do before we snatched them all from the mother Nature and packed them off for urbane careers. The Master sees this, ties a heavy stone around the boy with a rope when he is sleeping. Next morning, he commands the boy to go to the same spot with the stone tied up, find out and free the fish, the frog and the snake. He says a Masterly sentence, ".. if you find any of them dead, you will bear this stone in your heart forever". The boy finds only the frog alive, the way he sobs on seeing the vile snake dead is breath-taking. You feel so One with the Nature that even a snake seems like your dearest friend! such is the power of this master craft called cinema. Even the sexuality is narrated so unapologetically that you feel relieved that after all, the human body is not something sinful!

Wish you catch up with this movie someday, they will keep repeating this throughout this month.

When the heart is full, words seem so empty. So long, dear..........