Rashomon

Celia 2022-03-25 09:01:06

Japan is really a country that can express the evil of human nature incisively and vividly. Rashomon discusses what is true and what is false. It was also the first Kurosawa Akira movie I watched. In my opinion, a good movie is one that shakes my heart and makes people think deeply about issues that have never been paid attention to. And Rashomon is one such movie.

Verona 2022-03-23 09:01:39

8/10. The camera editing skills have an unattainable charm. The woodcutter entered the mountain until he saw a woman's hat on the branch. The wide-angle overhead shot showed dazzling sunlight through the intertwined branches, and the smooth panning cut into the close-up made the camera lose its direction. There is a sense of urgency, and the robber’s unstable follow-up shot highlights his ecstatic mood; the monk misses the samurai couple walking in reverse, and only through a complete shot of frontally panning into the silhouette of the two and then panning to the back, reducing the narrative . The two-point composition is frequently used, the servants hiding from the rain are indifferent to the suffering of the world, and Zhensha leans over and weeps during the court trial. In these two scenes, the monk and the woodcutter stand obliquely and sit upright in the distant view to form a group of two, confronting each other. It symbolizes that the memory of the case is full of complicated relationships; after the robbers in the forest took possession of the real gravel and left, the samurai couple faced the large open space in the composition, which symbolised the psychological emptiness of the couple who did not know how to be good. The close-up alternates the close-up of the faces of the four samurai, and the despair of Masa is enhanced a little bit. The swaying leaf shadows and empty mirror clips of empty steps express the passage of time. It is a pity that the performance mode has not been separated from the stage.