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Reader comments on Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring
Subject: Re: Spring, Summer, Fall...
Date: Jul 26, 2004
I think the mother keeps her face covered because she is probably a single mother who cannot keep her child - maybe she can't support him or maybe they are ill-treated if the baby is illegitimate and she has lost face. Keeping her face covered keeps her identity secret from the monk too and she does not lose face in front of him. It is like the old days in Europe, when disgraced single mothers or poor people would give up their baby to a convent by putting him into a hatch in the wall of the convent for the nuns to find safely and anonymously.
Actually there was a scene showing the girl's mother being rowed back as she leaves.
I think the younger monk always takes the Buddha image with him, because although he leaves the monastery, he remains a Buddhist. Leaving the monastery is not a rejection of Buddhist practice, but of going into the lay world and lay life and he can use the Buddha figure as a focus for his practice wherever he goes to live.
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Re: Spring, Summer, Fall...
Who was the lady with the face covered?
Was this his son?
Why did he keep taking the Budda when he left
You never show the girls mother leave
Please answer as I so much want to better
understand the story Yes I did like the film
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