After seeing the ending where the little monk fed stones to animals, and having seen what happened to the little monk who tied stones to animals, I can't help but think about what would happen to him? Is his master going to teach him a lesson by feeding a piece of stone?!!
Anyone? :}
Of course.
That would complete the cycle. :]
I didn't like the ending either.
Now the child who learned from his monk can pass knowledge to the new student. But, damn, that didn't help him. He grew up to kill his wife! What is this saying about the effectivness of this religion/culture? We don't really learn our lessons? buddhism is incapable of bettering humans? We need to greatly harm another before we can be spiritually revitalized?
Dictated, but not read.
The movie illustrates the problem with the justice system where the punishment comes after the crime, but no effort is given to prevent the crime in the first place. In the beginning the old monk sees the boy torturing animals, but doesn't stop him there, instead he waits until it's too late and imparts a harsh eye-for-eye type punishment after the fact. Later in the movie he again doesn't spend much effort educating and stopping the young monk from leaving. Presumably, after having a similar fate he would know that him murdering the girl was a very likely possibility, and thus he should have tried harder if he actually wanted to stop the cycle of violence.
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