Talk about "Rashomon"

Joana 2022-04-21 09:01:44


Interestingly, while watching this film, I was writing a summary of the recent worldview imitating Wittgenstein's "Theory of Logic and Philosophy". The wonderful thing is that this film and my writing are almost in line with each other. , the right hand draws the Buddha.

This film was produced in 1950, just after the Second World War, which gave me reason to believe that the decline of belief in a big way is a chronic poison that directly poisons personal speech. And it's far from simple. Multiple people tell the same story, just like Roland Barthes describes the same Eiffel Tower from multiple sides, just like "Style Exercise" tells a state of affairs with ninety-nine stories, the difference is that it is in line with the Western context. Compared to, the Japanese seem more solemn. They are deeply afraid, horrified, and saddened by the chaos of this reality, the reality of chaos (monk), there is such a sentence: "The ghosts who died in Rashomon are more honest than those who lie." . When the postmodernism of the West is taken away, or lacks the numbness of the decline of beliefs and the habit of being self-sufficient, it breaks the jar to deal with the abnormal game spirit, the Japanese people's discomfort in the new era has to return to the level of human nature to find salvation, just like Washing the residual gold in a pile of sand is a unique secret trick of the Japanese. In the West, the yellow sand has already covered the sun, and the world cannot be distinguished. Fortunately, the newcomers regard it as another cave, just like people going to the building. An empty playground, in a blink of an eye, has become a paradise for ghosts to feast on.

Recording the summary of the world view, I know that if this is considered a harvest, then the image must be abandoned.


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1. There is no idea.
1.1 There is no truth (reason) and no falsehood (image).
1.1.1 There is no binary opposition, no meaning produced by binary opposition.
1.1.2 When we say something is "false", we mean false logic, not false logic. For example, "died before birth", "born", "died", "before" are not false, logically false.
1.1.2.1 Humans are logical animals, and human beings have only "false".

2. The world is chaos.
2.1 The "mystery" is the only "reality" that can be guessed.
2.1.1 "Mystery" cannot be said, and nothing that can be said is "mystery", including the word "mystery" itself.

3. The world can only be expressed, not questioned.
3.1 In semantics, any valid "truth" must be possessed, such as "reality of expression", "truth of someone, something, something".
3.2 "Reality of representation" is the only reality, and "reality of representation" exists only in representation.

4. People are the means by which the world expresses itself.
4.1 People have the instinct of structure, but there is no discrete instinct; people have the habit of systematizing objects, and there is no motive force to dismember meaning.
4.2 Continuing to touch and think about the "mystery" is a canoe floating on the sea of ​​meaning.
4.3 People have both the instinct of doubt and belief, the former is the supplement of the latter, and the latter is the support of the former.
4.3.1 Belief is belief in form, doubt is more doubt in content.
4.3.2 When belief in "truth", "god" and "logos" is defeated by chaos, man can and only entrust his belief to the god of all forms of art - witty, wonderful, harmonious, broad, Profound, evil - the Muses of the gods.

5. Good art is the only effective expression in the world.
5.1 Art does not possess true or false, art shares all true and false.
5.2 All art has no definite core of idea objectively, and excellent art evades the core of idea subjectively.
5.3 Excellent art unconsciously pursues "mystery".


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Rashomon quotes

  • Tajômaru: I had never seen such fierceness in a woman.

  • Masako: Wait! Stop! Either you die or my husband dies. One of you must die. To have my shame known to two men is worse than dying. I will go with the survivor.