Not only its sharp questioning of human nature is alarming, not only its outstanding soundtrack makes people surging, but also Kurosawa Akira's picture and composition, God, it is so delicate, concise and powerful! So oriental!
The question in Rashomon is not in a fashionable semantics sense. It has nothing to do with the so-called dizzying concepts of signifier and signified. It discusses our world and everyone's heart. Akira Kurosawa is brave and honest when exposing the truth of human lies, and at the end of the film, Akira Kurosawa is brave and honest when he implicitly shows the brilliance of human nature. I figured why he would end the movie with a plot like that, maybe nothing more than still an option. As a director, he can choose to believe, or he can choose not to believe, choose tolerance, or cold face. However, as a viewer, I feel that his choice is the closest to the truth - the lower limit of "belief" and the upper limit of "unbelief". So I am very excited.
A friend, part of his signature is: problem awareness, beyond feelings. I think that's it. Of course, the great Akira Kurosawa cannot be summed up in one word: problem awareness. But how grateful I am for his transcendence. In my opinion, this determines the height of art.
So far, I have only seen two of his films, "Rashomon" and "Sweet Dreams". Most of the pictures of both basically have three people and only three people. Their location presents a mathematically precise and beautiful framework.
Rashomon maybe earlier? Its images are more poetic than the latter. The farmer was walking in the mountains, and the trees that were shot from his back passed quickly; the rain was like an arrow, and the Rashomon was in ruins like a dream; the three parties recounted the incident in front of the yamen, the old man selling firewood and the monk were always quiet, small, Sitting cross-legged in the upper right corner of the picture, the sun is shining on the white ground... Such a violent incident has the artistic conception of oriental Zen drifting.
Stunning.
Every time I see art from Japan or something, I can't help but use a small head to think about big big questions, such as, why is it actually made by the Japanese? For example, the inevitability of today's Yamato nation being so arrogant... and so on... But for "Rashomon", all political doubts will be kept away...
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