very beautiful and original picture in this movie . you can also enjoy such simple thing a the sound of the snow fall or a scissors cut a wool cloth . in my opinion and the movie be not repetitious . i think the intention of the director be to introduce you in the monk everyday life and and therefore you have to understand the routine and discipline they be attach to . it be just the silence that illuminate these people . and i do not know there be such really sweet monk in the catholic church . at the cinema everybody be stay till the very end and although i have to say that someone be sleep behind me while ) .