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One hot summer afternoon, a samurai took his wife through a forest. A robber lay in a tree resting in the afternoon. A gust of wind blew the white gauze covering the face of the samurai wife.
In the following stories, they have different opinions.
Robber: He has portrayed himself as a hero who is sloppy, heroic, combatant, romantic, informal, and scheming for women. In fact, poor, rude and horny, a brute force can only be used for three-legged cat kung fu.
Samurai: He created the image of a bloody man who was mistakenly victimized by an adulterer, suffered humiliation from his beloved wife, and only committed suicide. In fact, greed, selfishness, cowardice, coldness, conservativeness, and incompetence are mainly incompetence.
Samurai wife: Portrayed the image of a weak woman who was brutally raped and rejected by her husband again. In fact, traditional ethics and social norms forced her to pretend to herself, eliminating her sexual desire and the desire to kill her husband.
Woodcutter: A passerby who has shaped himself a dozen soy sauces. In fact, cowardly, panic, and greedy for small profits.
2 "Rashomon", derived from the story of the Buddhist scriptures: There was a farmer who was unable to make a living due to the turmoil of the army. He planned to be a thief without the courage. When we came to the gate, there were piles of corpses at the gate. An old woman was stealing the hair of a young woman's body. The farmer hurriedly shouted, and the old woman said: In order to survive, you can do anything. Look at this female corpse, she has a peaceful appearance, who knows what sins and activities she has done in her lifetime. The farmer was shocked, and immediately robbed the old woman of her belongings and embarked on the road of thieves.
This story illustrates two points:
One is the duality of human beings, either evil or good; two, human beings are selfish and unscrupulous for their own sake.
Kurosawa Akira's "Rashomon" blends the above two human characteristics, and brings out the hypocrisy of people. He will pretend to talk about what he has done to others, or even if he is deep in his heart. I have reason, I am not so unbearable.
It is said that the self that people see in the mirror, and the true self, must be more than 20% beautiful. The extra beauty is processed by my own brain. That's probably what it meant.
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Let's talk about the samurai wife.
She is a very complicated female character. For most of the scenes, she was lying on the ground and crying. Kurosawa showed her beauty through her gorgeous robe, long black hair, and a pair of slightly trembling hands.
From the current point of view, her image is so weird. Yuanyuan has no eyebrows on her face, and there are two piles of black dots on her forehead. She thinks of the kind of paper dolls, or the Sadako who crawled out of the TV. . Such a woman would be shocked at first sight, let alone arouse sexual desire. However, there are differences between ancient and modern, China and Japan, plus thinking that those fat pig-like women in the Tang Dynasty are also two black piles on their foreheads, so I can barely understand.
From the beginning to the end of the movie, the samurai wife has undergone tremendous changes, and her transformation is also tremendous.
Sit on the horse when he appeared, looking forward to his posture, young couple, everything goes well. Her husband left her behind, and she was enjoying herself playing in the water by the stream. Sunlight sprinkled on her from the bushes, Qianqian jade hands in the water. At that time, she was pure-minded and still had a sincere feelings for her husband. She was anxiously pale when she heard that he was ill.
The turning point of the matter After the robber kissed her, there was a very interesting scene: her hand released the knife and took the initiative to touch the robber's back. Because of this scene, I used "shun rape" instead of "rape" and "rape" as people usually think.
Her husband could not satisfy her, nor could he protect her, so that she was passively deprived of the robber and humiliated her afterwards.
So she broke out, you are unkind and I am unrighteous, using means to agitate people to kill their husbands.
She didn't go with the robbers. If so, it would be a romantic story. Pan Jinlian and Robin Hood wandered around the world, a couple of gods and goddesses.
Samurai wives are destined to be impossible to live with robbers, and they are of different classes. The robbers appeared naked in the mountains and forests, slapped the mosquitoes on their bodies with "slap" and "slap".
The samurai wife was dressed in good clothes, raised her feet and pitched like a sing-a-play, with a sharp eye, even crying and crying so full of poses. People have weaknesses, and women who appear as weak have more weaknesses, pitiful and hateful.
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Kurosawa pinned his hopes on the woodcutter, who may be poorer and have a better conscience. The samurai is the richest, but he is the ugliest. Here, Kurosawa has a little proletariat. The poor are better, and the rich are worse. For example, depending on the class composition, the boss's rude thinking is good, and everything about the bourgeoisie is bad thinking. When it develops to the extreme, all good things will be destroyed. The woman looks good and is well-dressed. There must be something wrong with her thinking... Maybe I wronged Kurosawa. He didn't mean it, just pick a random person and give it. Humanity has a little light of hope, and that person just happens to be relatively poor.
Regardless of the rich and the poor, there are inherently various dark sides of human nature, and the weaknesses of various human natures are analyzed, and it is often impossible for even oneself to face oneself directly. Humans are social animals, and they have to build an appearance that is justified and bold. Just like the Rashomon scene in the movie that collapsed in half, half of it was still in shape, and half in shape. If the society is regulated by morality, many pretenders and hypocrites will inevitably be produced.
There is no absolute evil in the world. To treat some criminals as unforgivable is a lack of understanding or introspection of human nature. And behind the glorious image of a great man, who knows the hideous face? So how ridiculous is it to worship a leader or set an example?
Since people cannot be objective and fair to themselves, it is undoubtedly unrealistic to require a leader or an organization to purify themselves to be objective, fair, and selfless.
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