EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! The priest and the woodcutter are recounting the story of a murdered samurai whose body the woodcutter discovered three days earlier in a forest grove.
Both were summoned to testify at the murder trial, the priest who ran into the samurai and his wife traveling through the forest just before the murder occurred. Summary comes from IMDB. After a heist goes awry, a group of thieves begin to turn on each other. The accusation of a rat in the group creates in unreliability of each account of how the heist went wrong. This creates tension and conflict that, in classic Tarantino fashion, has fatal consequences.
The use of an unreliable narrator may seem common today, but in , films were presented from a more objective point of view.
This allowed audiences to see the characters as they were or how the filmmakers intended. Movies with multiple perspectives were unorthodox. The audience had to decide that for themself.
This is what made Rashomon so engaging. Today there are many examples of movies with multiple perspectives. A notable modern riff on the Rashomon Effect that utilizes the unreliable narrator can be found in the film Gone Girl. In this mystery thriller, a man becomes suspect number one in the disappearance of his wife. As he becomes less reliable throughout the story, we become more engaged in finding out the truth.
Lessons from a Screenplay breaks down the Rashomon style screenwriting techniques used in the Gone Girl screenplay in the video essay below. At the end of Rashomon , our realization that none of the witnesses are reliable leaves us with more questions than answers.
While most films at the time had a clear ending, the ending of Rashomon has no clear resolution. This unconventional decision by Kurosawa left audiences in discussion about what really happened. In theory, the lack of a resolution should leave an audience dissatisfied or even frustrated. Is the game finished and needs no more updates?
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He draws his sword, approaches the old woman, and demands an explanation for why she is plucking hair out of a corpse. The woman, frightened, responds that the corpses disposed of there were those of people who had done such evil things in their lifetimes that they deserved to have their hair plucked out of them, and that the only way she could avoid starving to death was to take their hair for making wigs. The woman who she is harvesting from now used to sell snake flesh to the guards of the gate as fish and they enjoyed it immensely.
Hearing this, the servant responds "Then it's right if I rob you. I'd starve if I didn't. He roughly kicks the woman onto the corpse and disappears into the night. This story became the namesake for Akira Kurosawa's film, Rashomon , but takes only a few things from the story, such as the theft of the kimono and the moral gray area between death and thievery as a survival tactic.
The plot itself is entirely different from Akutagawa's story. In this story, the narrator plays the modernist role of a presenting the consciousness of the servant throughout.
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