The story unfolds around the murder of a man, and his wife and a Tajomaru are deemed as the suspects .in which. each party (including the man himself to the event) holds a word and expresses ideas, also illustrates evidence for the sake of their own benefits. Which ultimately makes the truth ambiguous, and difficult to come out. meanwhile, there are also three men who describe the whole story and give responses and judgments
Throughout the movie, the flaws of humanity, like the inner darkness, sin, and malevolence as well as the greed to secure benefits are represented vividly by the interactions between characters. In the end, When audiences feel it unacceptable and too overwhelming, the appearance of a baby and the behavior that the woodcutter want to adopt and raise up the abandoned baby restore the faith of many to the human being.
there are some dialogue i found very relevant and representative to the post-truth that I have been reading and focusing recently, they are:
“ It is human to lie, most of time we cannot be honest with ourselves. But that maybe because men are weak that they lie, even to themselves ”
“I do not care if it is a lie as long as it is entertaining”
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“Maybe goodness is just make-believe, men just want to forget the bad stuff and believe in the made-up good stuff. It is easier that way”
The point is, we can’t know. And that is what constitutes the horror: we cannot be sure about acts of violence, and by the same token we cannot even be sure about acts of kindness.We have nothing in isolation, nothing purely itself, not life, not truth, not facts, not experience—nothing. From birth through death, all during life, we never know the world as it really, ultimately is, the ding an sich. We depend on our all too fallible senses, fatally driven by our needs and personalities. We know the world through ourselves and others, never truly or directly. We are dependent, and dependent on whom or what?
However, movie is movie. in which, We are dependent on Kurosawa(the director) no less than the other narrators, and he is as unreliable as they. He too tells the tale to suit his needs and personality. He doesn’t give us “the truth.” Out of his inner needs, whatever they are, he creates a film that damns humanity—but it is also a great work of art. It plays with its own falsity, its fictionality
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