Film · Daiei · 1950
Pass it on
Rashomon
61Watch it awake.
The stories don't match, and somebody still has to pick that baby up.
The review
Four accounts of one crime in a grove, told in the rain, and none of them hold. The bandit, the woman, the dead man, and a woodcutter each tell it differently. I was ready to shrug and treat the mess as unknowable.
There's an abandoned baby, and someone has to pick the child up. That's the part I won't let this house talk past. I wouldn't put the crime on for a small child. For the rest of us it leaves a duty after the arguing. Put it on when we've got several versions of one event and a kid standing in the middle.
Journal
Keep Rashomon in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 61. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry is the thin one.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
High Noon
74 instead of 61
High Noon is still a drama film, and it scores 74 instead of 61. What you gain is industry: The office is the work.
The eight
- 3Industry
A woodcutter is among the tellers; nobody's trade is what the night is for.
- 7Household
An abandoned baby waits in the rain, and someone has to take the child.
- 6Piety
None of the accounts is conscience, but a person still has to take the child.
- 6Courage
Taking the abandoned baby is the risk, and then that life has to be kept.
- 5Republic
The accounts fail a crime, and the living still owe the baby a person.
- 6Temperance
The crime is told four ways, and the ending is a duty rather than a craving.
- 8Truth
Nobody's account holds, and a baby on the ground is the fact that stays.
- 8Stewardship
What's left is a child, and one person willing to carry that life out.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · Rashomon · 61IMDb
