Synopsis
The nature has played various background roles for the narrative in most films. The role of the nature in the contemporary films, however, is getting more and more insignificant. Perhaps it reflects the fact that the modern technology entails the slow extinction of the nature. In this film, however, the nature plays the predominant role. The film begins as the camera slowly shifts its focus through the nature. The camera then shows a man and a woman being chased through the woods. The nature becomes the hiding place for them and later, the burial place. The camera moves along a tree, and shows that the couple has been reincarnated in the form of a flower. The flower is picked and taken away by a father and a daughter who are climbing the mountain. Again, the nature plays the role of a silent observer. The couple from the past and the father and daughter from the present time represent the external changes in our lives that occur with time. From the nature's point of view, however, there is an inherent continuity in life, the 'karma' that is endlessly repeated like the fate. Rule of karma, then, seems to be none other than the perpetual presence of the nature. (PARK Ji-Yeon)