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Rashomon Film Analysis
Each and every person who watched Rashomon will tend to form their own version of what happen that fits into their own personal ideas and opinions. In order to figure out the truth, each story must be carefully analyzed and the similarities from each story must be pulled and put together. Base on the idea of those stories, one of that can be taken as fact and other is a fiction. In reality we tend to take our own personal ideas and beliefs. When we attempt to put the events of our lives into story form it is no wonder that we each crate our own individual story.
In the film, four characters create their own version of what happen. They intend to tell a instead of saying and doing the right thing. Why do people always intend to tell a lie instead of saying the truth? Why does a person only believe in what they want to believe? The reality is that
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In each story except for the last, the teller war the murderer. As the viewer, I noticed, that the story of the first three teller are not convincing, because on their character are hard to believe that the bandit (Tajomaru) would beg the women to came with him. Base on the character of the woman, maybe she is the one who wished to with the bandit. She encourages the men to fight with one another. Base on the story of the Samurai, it’s hard to believe that he allow his wife to have another man in her life. So for me, the most accurate story is the wood cutter. He would not be able to tell the story if he is not the one who killed the Samurai. He did not tell that he killed the Samurai, but what is the purpose of telling that entire story? He did not admit that he is the murderer because maybe he wants to hide his imperfection. If we put the evidence from what I watched, that is the dagger. He stole the dagger that was used to kill the Samurai. He gets the dagger in the chest of

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