A movie has become a cultural phenomenon, and even "Rashomon" has become synonymous with confusing and inconsistent. Akira Kurosawa's film can be said to be very successful. In the movie, it may not be important who killed people and whose statement is the truth. The agnosticism of human nature is the problem that the creator throws to us.
Like all masters, Akira Kurosawa's film industry is often remade. For example, the masterpiece "Seven Samurai" has not only been made into 4 westerns, but even has a sci-fi version; and "Rashomon" also has such treatment , in addition to the American version in 1964, it was once again put on the screen in 2010, and the main selling point of that time was to uncover the truth of the unsolved case and expose the murderer to the public, but in the end it was left behind.
Although we don't know the story behind this project, its miscarriage may not be difficult to understand. "Rashomon" is not a simple detective story. "Conan" has only one truth for each story, but how did it become a classic Woolen cloth?
Human nature is not black and white, and the truth is sometimes not as obvious as it seems; from the beginning of our narrative, the facts are changed, and even when we witness the same thing, our inner perception is not the same: a blind man touches an elephant, some say an elephant It is a rope and some people say a pillar. From their point of view, there is nothing wrong with it, and in front of the endless things, why are we not a blind person who can see through it?
We can't agree on things that have nothing to do with us, and there are even bigger differences on matters that concern us. In the film, the woman who survived the catastrophe, the robber who is full of evil, and even the samurai who hates Jiuquan have completely different opinions on the same thing, and everyone speaks for it. The living are for survival, the dead are for fame, and the prisoners who are doomed should die hard to the end.
As the saying goes, when a person is about to die, his words are also good, and in this movie, we dare not accept all the words of a dead person. However, the film did not obliterate the brilliance of human nature. At the end of the film, the woodcutter adopted an abandoned baby. He also had his own secrets in this inconclusive murder case, but it did not prevent him from continuing to be a good person.
Not everyone has a Brokeback Mountain in their hearts, but I think in many things, everyone does have a Rashomon in their hearts.
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