Rashomon (1950)

[baumer]

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[luna]

this kurosawa guy isn't exactly optimistic, is he? a genre-fied story of unreliable perspectives.

 

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[Plain Old Tele]

Amazing, and one of (if not the) first examples of unreliable narrators in cinemas. It's really a profound statement about how all of us interpret our own reality and truth, based on our own ego, fears, hopes, and passions.

 

But aside from all of that, it's just a really entertaining film as well. Mifune is a standout.

 

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[Kvikk Lunsj]

I thought this film was overacted and felt a tad to long. I like what it did with the story but the over acting killed the movie for me.

[AniNate]

I thought this film was overacted and felt a tad to long. I like what it did with the story but the over acting killed the movie for me.

 

That's the 1950s for you. Everyone overacts.

 

Anyway, great film. Had a much deeper message than I had anticipated. What I found most interesting was how all three witnesses implicated themselves in the man's death. Shows just what kind of influence pride can have on the distortion of truth.

 

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Edited May 26, 2014 by tribefan695

[luna]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCwgpbS6pFg

[JohnnyGossamer]

Arguably Kurosawa's most seminal film and, alongside High and Low and Ikiru, one of the his that revisit most.

 

Somewhat of a tangent, his Throne Of Blood and Polanski's Macbeth mark my two favorite film adaptations of Shakespeare.

[Goffe]

Still confused by Woodcutter's accounting of the facts, can someone elighten me?

 

Anyway, not a fan. 

[Jessie]

I saw this in film studies, it was shit. 

 

Visually impressive though.