Does anyone understand?

We'll never know the true face of this homicide because everyone is covering up for themselves. Therefore, everyone said that the film expresses the hypocrisy of human nature, and everyone will not tell the truth about the facts they have experienced. The director himself guides the audience with this point of view. However, I don't think this view hits the mark at all. As long as we don’t agree with it casually and think about it seriously, we will find that people are not afraid of admitting the sins they have committed, but they are afraid that sins will destroy their humanity at the same time. Therefore, we must desperately find a logical starting point for sin that fits human nature and morality. Is it not? Of the three suspects (the samurai himself was vying to be the murderer, it's worth noting), none of them were afraid of being a murderer, and everyone admitted that he was a murderer. In the robber's story, the robber confesses to being the murderer; in the woman's version, the woman also confesses that she is the murderer; and the samurai says he committed suicide. If everyone excuses himself, why does everyone say he is the murderer and not someone else?
In addition, I noticed that although each of them rushes to say that they are the murderers, the reasons for the murders they tell at the same time can arouse people's sympathy and understanding. This of course reflects the hypocrisy of human nature, but such superficial thinking lacks meaning. The value of the film lies in digging deeper along the surface of human hypocrisy. It is exploring why people are not honest with others and with themselves? Because man, this poor creature, this advanced animal with a conscious moral consciousness and the pursuit of goodness and beauty, is always like a straw swaying in the wind, trying to use its delicate roots to desperately seize the supply of nourishment and water. The soil of the share, grasp the foundation of life, but the wind can't stop, they can only be uprooted, in the process of this nightmarish struggle, the truth always stands at the farthest, it can't comfort people, only fiction Only then can we dilute the cruelty and soothe the crying soul in extreme fear. In the process of deviating from the journey and sinking into sin, even the most murderous soul is afraid of being killed by sin. People deviate from human nature and kill human nature, but at the same time they are so afraid of losing their human nature. Then, we can only create a story that is in line with human nature although it has a sinful result by constructing a basic point of human nature.
Why only give three stars? Because it is really common. The above meaning is not developed and strengthened in the film, so that people can't see it. It is basically a blunt combination of suspense films and literary films. Don't you find that monk very annoying and rigid? He was so fragile that he couldn't live without believing in human beings. Of course, it's scary to live in a world where everyone lies, because it makes you deeply doubt whether you're real. The monk's fear itself is understandable, the problem is that the film doesn't unfold it as explicitly as "The Truman World." Thus, its fears are conceptualized and become incarnate.
I have watched two of Kurosawa's films, and the other is "Seven Samurai". The famous director has not been able to excite me yet. It's just that I always feel that the characters he shows have a stereotyped bias. Either, crazy, or with a solemn expression when looking at heaven and man. The characters are very explosive, but they have the exaggerated characteristics of stage characters, which makes people feel abstracted.

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