Love Rashomon

Myron 2022-04-21 09:03:32

The youngest daughter Catherine accidentally witnessed the pretentious behavior of the women at home, so she set up a trap with her father to find out the secrets of the women around her. The plot unfolds with a murder case: in a confined space, the master Marcel is murdered. The murderer will be one of these 8 women, they are: Mistress Gaby, mother-in-law, sister-in-law Augustine, sister Perret , daughters Susan and Catherine, maid Louise, housekeeper Chanel.
Pandora's box opened: women were suspicious of each other in fear and attacked each other. The whole process is not as terrifying as a suspense film, but it is extremely absurd and comical. It is really so-called 8 women in one play---extremely wonderful. Of course, the film is not telling a detective story, but taking this as an opportunity to present the polarities of human nature to the audience.
good and evil. In the mutual torture, the unspeakable secrets are finally exposed: the mother-in-law who killed her husband, Susan who was made big belly by her father, Chanel who fell in love with Perret, and the sister-in-law who had a crush on Marcel. . . A woman's secret is nothing but love and hate. Everyone in the film tells their true inner world with a song and dance performance.
Desire to love and be loved. "There are all kinds of women, different eras, different generations"
Catherine of the day declared with a triumphant gesture that she had found justice for her poor father. As everyone knows, this "father" is the initiator.
"There is nothing like pleasant love". Women's hopes, this man can not give. Love and hate, in these emotions, women are always more involved than men, and it is easier to get caught up in them and unable to extricate themselves. Didn't the sins of 8 women stem from love? !

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  • Catherine: Suzon, I forgot one thing. I heard a strange sound. I looked through Augustine's keyhole, and I saw her standing at the mirror with something shiny. I thought nothing of it, but now I'm sure she was sharpening a knife!

    Augustine: You liar! I was holding my mother-of-pearl comb and cleaning it.

    Gaby: At 3:00 am?

    Augustine: Combs never sleep!

  • Suzon: Didn't you say you saw no-one?

    Augustine: I forgot. I went for a drink.

    Gaby: Or a prowl around Marcel's room! What happened?

    Catherine: You'd know if you still slept with Dad.

    Gaby: I'm being judged by my own child!

    Pierrette: That's why I never had any.

    Gaby: Just admit no man ever asked you to.