must also mention the high component of male erotic actor Toshiro Mifune playing the villain Tajomaru ...
And finally, and here is the commentary on Kurosawa's version of the compendium of the two stories, "Rashomon" and "In the forest." Kurosawa is making a backdrop to the ruined temple of Rashomon in the storm, and in him to the stars of "In the forest," telling the story of the rape and murder. Everything is fine, except for me like two weak points in the movie:
-1 - musical soundtrack begins with Japanese touches mixed with some Eastern melodies, but then it sounds a modeled version of "Bolero" by Ravel, which confuses me as a European myself, thinking that this is a Japanese story that has place in middle age ... In other words, has nothing to do ...
-2 - Kurosawa inserted in the dialogues between the trio of protagonists: husband, wife and a thief, a feminist pep talk by the young wife against the husband and the thief denying both his masculinity, which I think is really fictional place and time where we are: a country fed up with male in middle age, where women was an item that is dragged behind the husband as a shadow, that is, the classic zero. Here is the dialogue:
(Addressing her husband) "You is not worth the trouble. If you are my husband, why not kill that man? Why not kill him before telling me to kill? If you were a real man, rather than reproach him kill them.
(Addressing the thief) "You either are a man. You are nothing. When you say you were Tajomaru, I wanted to take me with you. She was tired of this life so boring and bland. I thought that a man strong and famous as you give me an interesting life but my husband snatched me violently. I did not care because I wanted to change his life. That's what I thought. Now I realize you're just like my husband, an ignoramus.
(Two) "Listen well, women are men who go crazy for them. Women are to be earned, even fighting.
Obviously this dialog does not appear in the story of writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, is another adaptation of Kurosawa. Otherwise the movie is very good, including the invention also end promising a possible better life, despite all evil ...
Synopsis-Rashomon, based on two stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, tells a story that
turn four characters in very different walks of narrated, from his own vision and view, another story of a rape and murder, which varies considerably according to the "testimony" of each of them. These characters are a thief, the widow of a recently murdered man, the same man killed (with which they communicate via a spiritualist) and a woodcutter who he says was in the forest, where it all supposedly happened at that time and close to the protagonists of the terrible deed. Two characters, "neutral" hear these stories: a villager who reaffirmed time and again the evil people, and a priest, who still prefer to believe in people and generosity: a duel between good and evil. An intricate and human relations retorcidísimo game unfolds before the viewer, completely lost among so many conflicting information to develop its own version of events. Who killed the man? "He raped the woman thief? Who was she really love? How does the husband before he died? "He committed suicide and was not murdered? Where was truly the woodcutter? Could he have done something this logger to avoid tragedy? The intrigue, brilliantly structured, managed with surprising economy, and pulse rate by Kurosawa, serves to reflect on the truth and falsehood and their different interpretations, appearances on the transfer of information between human beings on the completely dual nature of all of us and, of course, and coming from the author of the work is, on the evils of the world, the search for truth as a means to confront this evil and hope. "Rashomon" is, like many of his films before and after, a humanist and redemption song remains reflected in his emotional denouement, in which someone is willing to fight for others decide to host a being stranded in your household, the time in which they live is a dark and terrible, hell, as another character sentence. Not to be forgotten actor deserves his cast simply superb and without which the film would not have been the same: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Machito Kyo, Masayuki Mori and Minoru Chiaki Ueda Kichijiro.
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