Review of Rashomon (1950) by John E — 21 Jun 2011
Not only a good movie by itself, it doesn't take much to see how enormously influential Rashomon was on film narrative. How mind-blowing is it to have multiple narrators reiterating the same story in entirely different ways?! This would make for a great courtroom movie, with each witness contradicting the other and giving wildly different scenarios.
This is as deep as the movie gets: it's much too experimental, artsy and at times overblown (in the acting department, that is) to give us some of the more touching or human components found in Kurosawa's very best work.
However, the production elements are outstanding and it is quite stimulating to see how differently the actors had to behave for such a short film. It's definitely a good palate cleanser after many of his longer or headier movies.
This review of Rashomon (1950) was written by John E on 21 Jun 2011.
Rashomon has generally received very positive reviews.
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