Enough to prove the fact ~ two small details that are very easy to ignore

Larue 2022-04-21 09:01:44

I thought that the story itself, the cause of death of the samurai, was completely irrelevant despite the conflict of the different versions of the story. But that doesn't prove the story is inherently muddled. In the gap between analyzing the philosophy of the film and the lens, if you are bored, you can also reason and analyze it.

One,
when the witch talks about the samurai committing suicide, the samurai and the witch fall together, and the climax can end. I thought this was the end of this version too. Who knew the witch got up and said another paragraph.

When the witch said this passage, the woodcutter and the monk were used as the background. With the music, when it comes to feeling someone walking towards me, the woodcutter straightens up; when it comes to someone pulling a dagger from me, I can see the woodcutter getting more and more nervous, and my heart has followed in my throat . But at this point the witch finished speaking, and fell again. Throughout this passage, the witch until her fall is narrating the events of her lifetime. It means that until the dagger was drawn, the samurai was actually still alive despite being seriously injured. Pulling the dagger was what led to his eventual death.

The foreshadowing of this passage is pretty good (albeit a bit deep). Because the first time I watched it, I didn't know the version of the woodcutter and the idle man said that he stole the dagger, so he would not notice this.
So when the next scene cuts back to Rashomon, the woodcutter still couldn't help being nervous and kept wiping away his sweat.

It has been proven here that the dagger and the woodcutter are implicated.

Second, the
woodcutter kept saying that he had never seen a dagger. But in his version, he misses the point. After the wife rejected the robber's proposal, she ran to untie her husband. What did she use to untie her husband?

dagger! !

The woodcutter said he did not see the dagger, and he added that the wife used the dagger to loosen her husband's bonds.

Analysis results: The dagger must exist, and it is a murder weapon. It was later stolen by a woodcutter.
Deduced scene: Two cowards engaged in a chaotic fight, with one's sword stuck in the ground and the other's sword stuck in a tree stump. At this point, the robber grabbed the dagger, wounded the samurai, and fled. The woman then fled. The samurai did not die at this time. When the woodcutter drew the dagger, the samurai died.

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Extended Reading
  • Aletha 2021-11-13 08:01:23

    Human beings are selfish by nature, and no one is right or wrong in this story. Lies + overthrow, even in recent years this form is still very fashionable.

  • Wendy 2022-03-26 09:01:04

    Rewatch. If there is no trust between people, what is the difference between this world and hell. Akira Kurosawa's first truly master work. Will watch again.

Rashomon quotes

  • Priest: War, earthquake, winds, fire, famine, the plague. Year after year, it's been nothing but disasters. And bandits descend upon us every night. I've seen so many men getting killed like insects, but even I have never heard a story as horrible as this. Yes. So horrible. This time, I may finally lose my faith in the human soul. It's worse than worse than bandits, the plague, famine, fire or wars.

  • Commoner: Well, men are only men. That's why they lie. They can't tell the truth, even to themselves.

    Priest: That may be true. Because men are weak, they lie to deceive themselves.

    Commoner: Not another sermon! I don't mind a lie if it's interesting.