"Rashomon" shows the darkness of human nature nakedly. Selfishness, hypocrisy, let everyone make up their own lies for their own benefit, so that the truth is not known. Or, what they said was indeed the truth, but it was the "truth" distorted by themselves in their own eyes.
In the narration, the robber focused on his wit and heroism, omitting the embarrassing scenes in which he knelt down and begged a woman and fought with a samurai.
In her narration, the woman emphasized that her husband had neither sorrow nor pity after suffering this tragedy, but treated her with indifferent eyes. Missing a lot of scenes about why the two men fought and how the husband died.
The husband's "description" is full of resentment and anger towards his wife. He missed the key details of his ruthlessness towards his wife and his cowardice, and why his wife turned against him.
In the film, the actor who plays the woman Zhensha has great acting skills. From being dignified sitting on a horse; crying in despair when seeing her husband tied up and knowing her situation; picking up a knife in self-defense; crouching on the ground with sadness; to an angry rebuke to two men at the end... Cowardice is just right, exceptionally brilliant. Seeing this woman reminded me of the eldest son's wife, Kaede, in Akira Kurosawa's other masterpiece "Ran". Like the two women, both have a gentle and lovable exterior, with the same sturdy personality and effective instigation to men.
In "Rashomon", we see the darkest and ugliest side of the three people, but we don't have much reason to scold any of them, because they seem to be ourselves.
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