The movie is sending the idea that there is the inability of any individual to know the truth, no matter how clearly he thinks he sees things. I think that taking a situation and understanding it in our perspectives distorts reality and makes the absolute truth unknowable. People give their own accounts of what is the truth or what "really- happened, but the truth for one person is not necessarily the truth for all.
The written text simply lays out what happened and does not give much impact on the message of the author. For me, just reading the text alone did not show me the deeper focus of the story. I was able to understand more by watching the film. Although the text was an interesting reading, I found it confusing. When I started to read "In a Grove-, I found myself wondering what is all these about. The story was made of seven different accounts from seven different individuals. All seemed to be telling the truth, but I was uncertain. I was not sure if Akutagawa's purpose was to let his readers guess who was telling the truth. .
In the text, a ranin took shelter in Rashomon and while he was there he saw an old woman collecting hair from the dead. The ranin got angry and the old woman explained that she was going to make a wig out of that hair and sell it to buy some food. She said that the person she was collecting hair from was cheating customers by selling dried snake as dried fish. The logic was that if this dead woman made money out of cheating others, then what difference would it make it the old woman pulled out her hair to make a living. The ranin thought that he could use the same kind of reasoning so he got the old woman's clothes and kicked her, and then he went away.
The film did not show this scenario. Rashomon was used as the place where the woodcutter, the priest, and the commoner met. This was where they exchanged stories about the incident. Instead of showing seven accounts of the incident, Kurosawa chose to only show four.
The film Rashomon is amazingly simple yet deceptively complex. ... The film Rashomon opens with three men sitting under Rashomon gate. ... Each of the four stories is separated by a returning shot to the four men at Rashomon gate. ... Rashomon is a beautifully directed movie which uses framing to separate the different scenes. ... The framing of the stories helped to make Rashomon the wonderful film that it is....
In Rashomon we are told a story from varying different points of views. ... Rashomon is based on short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and In the Grove. ... I found this movie to be very interesting in the way Akira Kurosawa told the story of Rashomon. ...
The story told by Rashomon is both surprisingly simple and deceptively complex. ... Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" is a good example of a story that is not what it first appears to be. ... Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon tells the story of a murder. ... Rashomon plays with what we can perceive as truth. ...
Rashomon is a Japanese crime drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, adapted from the two short stories "Rashomon" and "In a Grove", written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. ... The stories told in Rashomon are more akin to captions without photographs. ... As one of the men under the gate says, "legend has it that the demon living here in Rashomon fled in fear of the ferocity of man" (Rashomon 6). ... Rashomon isn't a film about a murder. Rashomon is a story about the failings of humanity. ...
Rashomon Akutagawa's Rashomon is a fascinating tale about the nature of human behavior in extreme circumstances. ... In Rashomon, there was a great deal of social trouble taking place and the samurai for who the servant had worked for many years had let him go. ... This suspicion is clearly depicted in the following quote: "[The servant begins to climb into the Rashomon to sleep for the night when he sees a light] What sort of person would be making a light in the Rahomon and in a storm? ...
"Rashomon," (1950) is a film directed by Akira Kurosawa. ... The film recounts the account of the bandit whom holds the namesake of the film, the dangerously renowned Rashomon. ... I think, providing that the woodcutters account is factual, Rashomon acts in this way because he is concerned about the way he will be represented after the trial. ... The way in which Rashomon boast himself is a defensive tool in protecting the integrity of his name as a bandit. ... Rashomon has stated himself on multiple accounts that people are motivated purely by self-interest. ...
Born on March 23, 1910 in Tokyo, Akira Kurosawa was the youngest of his eight siblings. Kurosawa said his first significant role model and influence was his art teacher, named Tachikawa, who was focusing on his emphasis on art education for young students. It was in this way that the young kurosawa...
Some of his most recognized films are Rashomon (1950), Throne of Blood (1956) and Ran (1956); his work not only proliferated the talents and culture of Japan at times of difficulties, but also vibrated passion and dreams for young moviemakers all around the globe. ...
