Rashomon Blog- First Impression

After watching Rashomon for the first time, I would have to say Rashomon would have to be one of the weirder films that I have watched in my life. Overall, Rashomon is very good movie. I don’t think Rashomon gives good answers to is there truth or justice. In the movie the woodcutter told the common man that he didn’t tell the court his true tale of what really happened because he didn’t want to get involved. The common man asked the woodcutter what happened to the dagger that the samurai’s wife had. After a few minutes the common man found out the woodcutter had kept the dagger in his own self-interest. The commoner mocks the woodcutter as “a bandit calling another a bandit.” I think what Rashomon introduces to the world was telling a story, but having the movie characters telling the story in different ways. Since each character gets a chance to tell their side of the story, we can see how the characters view themselves in their perspectives. Rashomon also uses music and camera angles add certain feelings to movie. For example, when the woodcutter is walking through the woods to help build suspense, we can hear the music become for suspenseful. One example of camera angles is during the samurai’s wife story. During her story to help make the viewer sadder for her they used a lot of close up her that had a downward angle to make her seem smaller then her male counterparts.