Spring, summer, fall, winter... and spring by Kim Ki-duk.
A Korean movie about the different stages in the life of a Buddhist monk. Beautiful cinematography. Pictorial and multimodal metaphors that make you ponder hard. Spring shows a boy who is training under an old monk. Summer is about the same boy in his teens encountering a young girl who is brought to the old monk's monastery. Fall is where he goes get married to the girl, lives with her for a while, but later murders her as she cheats on him with another man. Winter is about the same monk returning to the monaster after a long time to undergo rigorous training to be a buddhist monk on his own. Spring again shows him as the head of this monastery with an abandoned baby as his apprentice. The cycle is complete.
The Illusionist by Neil Burger.
Beautiful treatment. The magician is shown in his full glory with the help of the medium, cinema. It leaves you wondering what is real, if everything in fact is an illusion.
A short film about love by Kieslowski
A film about obsession and voyeurism. Where a nineteen year old boy observes an elder woman through his telescope. He watches her, gives her blank calls, makes random excuses to come in contact with her and finally confesses that he s been watching her. A very different take on how people react to conventionally right and wrong things.
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