Friday, 22 February 2013

If you go down to the woods today


Rashomon (1950)

Directed by Akira Kurosawa this film based on the two short stories stars Toshiro Mifune. Four people relate different stories about a rape and murder that took place three days before in the woods.

This film has a big reputation as does a really good job at looking at the nature of humanity and our willingness to lie for ego/image. The direction does a good job of minimalising the “clutter” round the story and making symbolic use of light. What really happened is less important in this film rather than the way it looks at human nature which it does very well.

5/5

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