i must confess i do not get a lot of his film but i adore spring and summer fall and winter and spring again . now i see that this man just come from a different place with his story . he be not try to be commercial . he be brave enough to make some weird stuff but without formulaic ending and feel good clichés . the man be stretch the boundary of our perception and disturb our sensibility enough to make u remember what we just saw whether we like it or not . for that i give him his due . hwal be another zen story in my eye but with a bit of shamanism a well . the imagery be once again luscious with buddhism and nature with beautiful korean traditional wedding costume also . the old man and young girl thing disturb me to no end but that be the intent . there be something sincerely love between them even though one moral sensibility be assault from the get go . a the young man enter the picture in what would seem a more appropriate love interest the conflict begin . just a thing start to seem to turn normal the magic begin and the spiritual enter the mundane like an old korean fairy tale .