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ABOUT THE MOVIE
Three Monks is a Chinese animated feature film produced by the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. After the cultural and the fall of the political Gang of Four in
1976, the film was one of the first animations created as part of the rebirth
period. It is also referred to as The
Three Buddhist Priests.
PLOT
A young monk lives a simple life in a
temple on top of a hill. He has one daily task of hauling two buckets of water
up the hill. He tries to share the job with another monk, but the carry pole is
only long enough for one bucket. The arrival of a third monk prompts everyone
to expect that someone else will take on the chore. Consequently, no one
fetches water though everybody is thirsty.
At night, a rat comes to scrounge
and then knocks the candleholder, leading to a devastating fire in the temple.
The three monks finally unite together and make a concerted effort to put out
the fire. Since then they understand the old saying "unity is strength"
and begin to live a harmonious life. The temple never lacks water again.
ANALYSIS
At one point of time the movie shows that two people
are
trying to carry a single bucket, hanging from the bar held
on
their shoulders. Each one tries to push it towards the
other
in order to carry less weight. This is a common scene
in
most of the organisations today where the employees
want
to shift their responsibility to other fellow employees.
When asked in class about the solution to the problem
of
sharing load, a lot of them came up with different
solutions..
The solution was quite simple - measure the centre using a
scale. It can be related to an
organisation too. There is always a simple solution. The only problem is
discovering it .
Next, we noticed in the video , how the process of
bringing
the water uphill is changed when the second monk
arrives.
The single monk was carrying water everyday, but when
the
second monk arrived, they both started sharing the
load.
They updated the process so that all resources are
optimally
utilized – TEAM WORK .
But ….. the team work was short lived… They started
transferring their load to each other. This shows the
violation
of the team work principle.
When the third monk comes, the quarrel become even more
intense. No one was willing to bring water and was
ordering
the other person to do it. Infact, once when the 3rd monk got
water, after climbing the top, he himself consumed it.
This
shows selfishness in an organisation.
At night when they sleep, we see that the the monastery
catches fire. There was no water in the monastery at that time. When this
happens, all the monks forget their hostility and try to put out the fire. The
dilemma of who will carry the water was quickly forgotten and a system arose
out of the initial chaos. They all put out the fire quickly .
Moral :
Many a times crisis situations are encountered where
any kind of system is in place.
Infact one should be ready for it and should not keep anything for tomorrow and
do their work today itself. In the end we see that the monks resolve the
situation by fixing a pulley and dividing their roles - hooking the bucket,
roping it in and transporting to the monastery.
