In Japan in 1950, the isolated island was lying in a sea of no memory. No one knew about Japan at this time. It is conceivable that the battle has claimed countless lives and families, and the mutilated island carries the ruins and the wriggling and struggling crowd.
In 1950, Akira Kurosawa used the camera to tell the story of another era.
In fact, the theme of the film is just to express that people's subjective narratives are not credible, and the characters in the film are distorted and concealed in their descriptions of the murders, except for the monks who have been watching and the common people who lead the woodcutter's narrative.
One of the interesting points of the film is the scene in which he is speaking to the judge. The director puts the audience himself in it, and does not let the judge's dialogue appear, as if an audience is enjoying the performance of each actor.
The three deliberately distorted a nasty farce, because in the middle section they had already borrowed the mouths of monks and commoners everywhere. "People are always cowardly and evade. They can't face themselves more often, so they keep making up lies." At
that time, China and Japan were both in the era of the rest of their lives after the war. The future is like a huge piece of white paper with many holes broken in it. The Chinese have chosen a strong passion to live their lives, filling the wounds of artillery fire. As for the Japanese, I still can't understand more, but they have enriched their lives and have more secrets. Just like when we talk about this country today, we use chrysanthemums and swords to describe them, but we can't understand them.
The lies of the three people in the murder case are intertwined and complex, but one thing is certain, Tajomaru, the samurai (or Miko), and the samurai wife are all very afraid of what they will lose after being known to the public. thing.
Tajomaru had long known that as a robber, she was destined to have the head of a lord one day. She kept robbing and killing people. At first, it might be for money, but her fame later made him enjoy it even more. So when the official thought that he had been captured because he slipped from his horse, he tried to refute it (maybe it was just another lie), taunted it and then brought out his own lie.
After the woman was abandoned by two men one after another, she tried her best to provoke the two to a duel. It is undoubtedly ridiculous to use a clever strategy here. Even if one of the two wins, she will still not be loved by anyone after she walks out of that forest. If she expects both of them to die, it is tantamount to a fool's dream. So when she went to court, the rape was found out, so she had to make up a pitiful lie, in fact, she had always been just a balloon and someone who could sympathize with her. Maybe what happened in the woods really ruined her voice, and she stole it so far, and still used lies to support her body and mind hurt by the cold facts.
The samurai is an impetuous character, and his heart is always torn between the inner and outer of the samurai's stubborn beliefs. He is not confident in himself because he doesn't believe in anything. His seemingly arrogant and disdainful face hides a heart of inferiority. So when his wife is trampled on, his first reaction is to plant himself, and he is eager to Sacrificing his wife's life to come to the government's display is ugly. But in the end, he still lost a crushing defeat, not just because of Tajomaru's sword, he planted himself at his feet. Because he did not dare to face the honor that his reputation gave him, when his wife pierced his cowardly cloak, it only made his failure more thorough.
In fact, in everything that happens in the woods, there is no winner, everyone loses, they live in the moment, and they can't defeat themselves. Perhaps the Reign of Chaos has already destroyed the so-called brilliance of personality, or perhaps the turbulent climate has turned people into selfishness. In an age where everyone is in danger, no one can believe it, and no one can even protect himself. The birth of lies is not abrupt.
In Japan when the film was broadcast, in an air of selfishness and distrust, everyone was timid and trembling to face everyday life, and the purpose of life was unknown.
And in China in 1950... people looked at the war with no end in sight on the Yalu River with great fanaticism.
At the end of the film, the three find an abandoned baby behind Rashomon, and the commoners strip off the baby's coat. In the face of the woodcutter's accusations, the common people's theory of "thieves call to catch thieves" made him feel ashamed. Then the woodcutter took the abandoned baby from the monk and promised to raise him as his seventh child.
The despair along the way, at the end, the movie still gave us a glimmer of hope, the rain stopped, the common people and monks gradually walked out of Rashomon, when the sky on the black and white screen was with these three words, the background music still used the same music to hit. hit.
We have been discussing a lot about human nature, both inherently good and inherently evil exist at the same time. The most desperate times in life are nothing but cruel facts, but people can only use lies to escape, and living in despair needs a reason to continue. In the end, Akira Kurosawa gently recalled Hua: Hope is a good thing again, Good things go hand in hand with bad things. The future may not be good, but if we choose to live, we should always face it.
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