"Rashomon" cleverly adapted the plot of Akutagawa Ryunosuke's novel, using a unique method of multiple parallel narratives to tell the death in the jungle. The monologues of each character in the film are fragments of the entire event. After being refracted by people's selfish nature, these monologues themselves become unreliable. For the same reason, the narrators who relay these monologues are also unreliable. The film reflects the complexity of human nature from a deep level. Death exposes the sadness and insignificance of human beings, the greatness and sincerity of human beings to the summer sun. The film shows director Kurosawa Akira’s understanding of the human soul by telling death. It gives a deeper philosophical connotation than death itself, and guides the audience to pay more attention to human nature and how to abandon the evil side of human nature and move towards a bright future.
"Rashomon" through the different styles and seemingly contradictory narratives of the three parties, Doyomaru, Masa, and Takehiro, can see the subtle and fragile relationship between the sexes. It is difficult to resist outsiders, which carries loyalty, trust, and responsibility. The deliberate destruction of an original beautiful love can be destroyed in an instant. The narration of the incident by the three parties conformed to their respective identities and circumstances. It was not a deliberate lie, but a one-sided truth. This kind of one-sided truth is often the carrier of human sojourn.
If the end of the movie is interpreted as Kurosawa Akira's helplessness and compassion for individuals who cannot leave society and build humanity by lifting their ears off the ground, it is not impossible. When passers-by who stripped the baby clothes became angry and reprimanded the woodman for stealing the dagger, the woodman was speechless. The film seemed to highlight the uncertainty of the facts and the disappointment of human nature. However, when the woodman took the baby from the monk and said that he already had 6 children, and one more was not terrible, the viewer would naturally appreciate the woodman's helplessness in stealing the dagger. The monk who suddenly realized that he immediately regained his respect for the woodcutter and his confidence in humanity. The film thus expresses the understanding of the individual struggling in life's predicament. Proceeding from this, the destruction of human nature by Masago and Takehiro in the face of misfortunes also has a tragic effect.
