This film is adapted from Akutagawa Ryunosuke's "In the Bamboo Forest", and cleverly brings in the thinking of "Rashomon", and gives an answer to the two stories.
If what the woodcutter said was true, then the samurai (undead) concealed his cowardice, Tajomaru did not want to kill the samurai because he was afraid of desperately trying, and the woman kept her sense of shame. The two cowards were exhausted, so Tajomaru ended up rolling around the water (presumably falling from a horse). This explanation completes the story in the bamboo forest, but how to explain Tajomaru, an incompetent and cowardly man who killed the women and girls in the incense, and how he bound the samurai?
Under Rasho's family, the three discussed the world's hearts and minds. After peeling off the abandoned baby's jacket, the homeless saw the woodcutter's secret. The case of Tajomaru aroused complete wickedness in the hearts of the homeless. He couldn't help but regard the parents of the abandoned babies as evil people, and easily saw the evil of the woodcutter. Even the monk fell into doubts about people's hearts. The rain goes away, and the whole movie takes one into a utterly dark and vicious atmosphere.
It's okay if the movie ends here, but the director gave Rashomon the answer, that is repentance. Not only can evil be passed on, but repentance triggered by evil generates goodness, and this goodness leads to the goodness of monks, creating a good atmosphere. At the end of the movie, the laugh of the woodcutter is an encouragement to those who still believe in goodness in the scorching world.
If the woodcutter did not take the short knife, he would not repent. Then he might be inspired by the evil atmosphere after the homeless man stripped off the clothes of the abandoned baby. Would that be the case?
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