Rashomon-Where does the truth lie?
Rashomon is a film which allows you to come up with your own ending. You are told four stories, all completely different from one another, but about the same thing. As the viewer, you are to come up with your own truth. Also you are then forced to see why people may lie or embellish. Whether it be to keep themselves out of trouble or make themselves seem as if they are a better person then they really are. The reality is that we are no better then what people think we are. This is because we are unable to judge ourselves. We are unable be honest with ourselves. We are unable to see ourselves in a bad light without having made up some excuse. We try to justify everything that it is that we may do, so not to damage our egos. It is our egos which keep us like this. It is our egos which make us feel good, so we are going to do anything to keep our ego at a high point. Why is it that we are willing to lie so that we don't have to see who we really are? What is it about ourselves that we wish not to see? Maybe it is the fact that we all want to be viewed as this perfect person that can do no wrong and make no mistakes. So we embellish on our own behalf in order to hide our imperfections, our mis
Admitting to the murder they all did and blaming someone else for their own actions, they did too. This is why we cannot be honest with ourselves. We are then to find out that the woodcutter was a witness to the murder, making him more believable then the rest. Even the woodcutter didn't tell the police his story because he wished for no one to know about his own fault. We never want to be looked at for being the bad person, so we embellish on our own behalves. They realize that she is nothing but a whore. We question, after hearing his story, why he would have a reason to lie? Why shouldn't we believe his story? What does he have to hide from now that he is gone? He claims to have killed himself, but yet is able to blame his wife for his death and his afterlife, in a dark hell. His fault being for after witnessing this murder he takes the dagger and tells no one. Because of this thought, no one wants her. After hearing her story, the commoner states, "But women use their tears to fool everybody. If we have to lie to others in order to enlarge it, there is nothing that is going to stop us from doing so. With this story, she is making herself out to be a better person then what she really is. His story makes you want to hate the woman for what she has done. What to believe really happened is hard to find.
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