“Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring,” 20 November 2005 (2003), DVD, (Korean, subtitled.) This is a very good, contemplative and slow moving story of a Buddhist monk and his young disciple on a floating, one-monk pagoda in a river. The seasons chronicle the cycle of life of the young man as a child, an adolescent, an adult who has left the cycle and ‘fallen,’ his return, and the arrival of a new acolyte. It is a powerful story, simple yet meaningful and moving. Some of the acting is, in its own way, a bit over the top, but the bulk of it is well paced and apt to the scene. There’s a great bit with doors placed in rooms without walls or outside the space without connection, where the doors are meant as mental barriers denoting consciousness in life. Very nice. To go outside the barrier is to move outside consciousness and be ruled by passion. Very interesting stuff, and well worth the watch.