@Kalinnha exactly. I am buddhist actually and that is what the meaning is about. He continued where he left off and continued the cycle with the little one teaching him about like, karma and in the end you see the little one playing with the turtle about to go off and harm it the same way he did. Karma!
@AngeldenDevil Well..this movie is all about cycles..spring, summer.... spring again
So you could also think that old monk committed suicide because he has already finish his own cycle teaching the young monk, and dying was the way for doing this...
then the young monk come back, finds out that his master is dead.. and gets to understand everything
@AngeldenDevil He felt responsable for the young monk's suffering and for his actions. He probably came to the conclusion that since he couldn't train well even the one person whom he raised since early childhood, he wasn't a good teacher and so there was no point in him asking for alms from laypeople etc. So he did the next best thing (in his view): died a detached, dignified death, leaving his mantle there for whoever might come to the temple in future.
@Kalinnha exactly. I am buddhist actually and that is what the meaning is about. He continued where he left off and continued the cycle with the little one teaching him about like, karma and in the end you see the little one playing with the turtle about to go off and harm it the same way he did. Karma!
ARakaLordBrilliant 5 days ago
@AngeldenDevil Well..this movie is all about cycles..spring, summer.... spring again
So you could also think that old monk committed suicide because he has already finish his own cycle teaching the young monk, and dying was the way for doing this...
then the young monk come back, finds out that his master is dead.. and gets to understand everything
Is my way of seeing it!
Sorry for my bad english :)
Kalinnha 3 months ago
Cry ~
EExogenesis 4 months ago 2
@AngeldenDevil He felt responsable for the young monk's suffering and for his actions. He probably came to the conclusion that since he couldn't train well even the one person whom he raised since early childhood, he wasn't a good teacher and so there was no point in him asking for alms from laypeople etc. So he did the next best thing (in his view): died a detached, dignified death, leaving his mantle there for whoever might come to the temple in future.
MysticOfTheSands 5 months ago
i dont understand why the old monk committed suicide...?Why didnt he wait to die naturally?Be grateful if someone could explain this,thanks.
AngeldenDevil 6 months ago
@liza8423 The door its there because got the "demons" who protect the entrance to the temple. The asians demons not are the same than the our´s.
spsp2 8 months ago
1:16-1:53
Favorite and most magnificant part of the film, in my opinion...
Wasserkaktus 9 months ago
poor thing! he committed suicide in the end....its amazing there's a door right in the middle of the river....
liza8423 9 months ago