Rashomon mainly refers to everyone making up their own lies for their own benefit, so that the truth is not known. "Rashomon" was originally written as "Luochengmen" in Japanese characters, and the most original meaning refers to the gate located in "Luocheng (ie, the outer country of the city)", that is, the meaning of "Jingcheng Gate". Rashomon is a gate in Japanese legend that leads to life and death. It is extremely strong and there are many images symbolizing death on the gate. In Akutagawa Ryunosuke's original novel, Rashomon, as a landmark, represents "hell on earth". There is such a real gate in the original Kyoto (KYOTO), which is said to be the gate of the disappearance of the devil. destroyed by war.
A peasant who is submerged in the world; a monk who does not want to believe that evil is hidden in an ivory tower; and a madman who accepts the reality. It seems that he is detached, but it is actually a helpless acceptance of the real world.
Farmers live in the secular world forever. They accept the basic moral values of the real society. "Everyone is just selfish and only defends their own selfish behavior, that robber! That woman! That man! And you too!" Yes, in fact, he himself. But the Mad Whisperer is always so cruel, he always ruthlessly tore away the last fig leaf of a person. "In today's world, everyone has to doubt others." After all, farmers keep the basic moral integrity, even if he feels that some places seem to have deteriorated.
"There's nothing wrong with being selfish. This is a world where people are inferior to dogs." A madman, talking madly and watching from the sidelines, he always tells the truth that people can't or don't want to tell. The dark place is brought to the sun to show people. He is so calm and cruel, but sometimes so real, when everyone is a hypocrite, he has to shout to the world, I am a real villain, what's wrong?
"Thanks to you, I can still trust people!" This sentence is really sad. A society needs to comfort the hearts of those kind people through individual good things. What a dark society it must be. The ivory tower is still an ivory tower after all. Even if the storm blows, he still maintains the most basic kindness. Although he sees the darkness of the world, he always believes that there will always be sunlight shining outside the tower.
Different people have so different descriptions of the same thing. Robbers want to pretend to be thieves before they die; women pretend to be weak, unable to control their own destiny, and suffer from grievances and torture. ; Samurai have to pretend to be guards with the spirit of samurai; however, in the eyes of farmers, they are nothing but useless clowns who can't stand the wind and rain. This can't help but remind me of different people's descriptions of the relationship between Cao Mo and Yu Niang in the chapter on Cao Mo in the Prison Officer of the Song Dynasty. A simple thing is still so, let alone attainments submerged in the history of the distant past. One thing, sometimes people just describe it according to their own preferences, not necessarily deliberately concealing and distorting it, but even so we can't really see the original appearance of things, let alone those who have been deliberately tampered with by countless people. , distorted history? Some people say that if you verify each other, can't you find the most reasonable one? But what I want to say is that not everything is reasonable; in addition, what a person calls "reasonable" is established on his existing worldview and his own view of history, in other words, what one believes in Reasonable is simply "reasonable" that he is willing to believe or that his existing knowledge makes him believe, is it really reasonable? I don't know, maybe I'm falling into agnosticism again. It suddenly reminded me of what the hero said at the end of the 500 days with Summer, that this world has no destiny, no doom, and some are just coincidences again and again.
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