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| Nelson_Mandela 06/29/19 2:30:10 PM #105: | #35. Rashmon https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Rashomon_poster_2.jpg/330px-Rashomon_poster_2.jpg Dir: Akira Kurosawa Genre: Drama, Mystery Year: 1950 When you get a sociological phenomenon named after your film, you know you did something right. Even though Roshomon is set in feudal Japan, it brings a trait of human nature to life and gives it this universal quality you can apply to any time or any place. And I think that's ultimately the genius of Kurosawa--to take a beautiful samurai setting and make the story applicable to modern society. Roshomon, of course, is famous for its narrative device in which a story is told from multiple perspectives with diverging facts. Witnesses involved in a crime are all lying--not necessarily to cover up their misdeeds, but to serve their own self-interest in one way or another. Finding out the truth at the end of the movie is deeply satisfying in the sense that it portrays realistic motivations and undercuts a sense of morality that these characters are supposed to have. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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