Under "Rashomon", narrate the truth of "In the Bamboo Forest"

"The best way to live is to despise society and live a life that fits the society."

"Rashomon" was originally in Japanese. It is located at the southern end of Suzaku Road on Kyoto Central Avenue and the original site is on the west side of Toji Temple. Later used to refer to the boundary between the world and hell, the difference between fact and illusion.

usually refers to the fact that the parties to an event insist on their own words, and each proves or weaves lies in a way that is beneficial to them. In the end, the facts are confusing and difficult to understand. This is called the Rashomon incident.

From this official explanation, we can know that the "Rashomon" directed by Akira Kurosawa is not "Rashomon" by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. The book "In the Bamboo Forest".

So one of them: this "Rashomon" is not the "Rashomon".

Second, this black-and-white movie with a high status in the history of film, under the guidance of Akira Kurosawa, clearly and unmistakably conveyed the black and white of human nature, giving people unlimited space for thinking and imagination, which is beyond doubt.

However, some of the discussants on the Internet are still chattering and tit-for-tat on the truth in the plot. In my opinion, this is really boring. Some of these discussants probably misunderstood the original intentions of director Akira Kurosawa and the author of Akutagawa Ryunosuke, and fell into the misunderstanding of treating it as a game of reasoning.

When we read through the original work carefully, combined with the film, under the Rashomon, the truth in the bamboo forest will become clear. The story of the

movie "Rashomon" is very simple: a murder case.

One day, a samurai walked in the mountains with his wife sitting on a white horse, passing by the fellow passing monks, and at the same time passing by the robber Polycystic Wan who was resting under a tree. The breeze blew the veil of the woman on the white horse, and Duocangwan was attracted by the woman's beauty, so she lied to tie the samurai and raped the woman.

Soon after, the woodman passing by the scene found the samurai's body and hurriedly reported.

How did the samurai die? This has become the biggest suspense in the plot. However, in the film, compared to the suspense created by everyone's lie, this real suspense is dwarfed and can be almost completely ignored. The reason for

can only be summed up in one sentence: the intention to the language is a loss, and the speaking to the hearing is another loss.

first is the confession of the thief Duocangwan; in the case of relatively suspicious human and physical evidence, Duocangwan can be completely deceived and cleared of the crime, but he simply admitted all his crimes cleanly. Knowing that after Duocangwan said these words, he must be greeted with death. After

is the woman's confession: She could have pushed the boat along the water, and pushed all the charges against the polycystic pill, so that her unfortunate experience can win the pity and sympathy of everyone.

However, she stated that after being abused by Doyomaru, because of her husband's contempt and hatred of her, she decided to express her heart with death.

But her husband remained indifferent, so she stabbed her husband to death in frustration and passed out. After several unsuccessful searches for death, he came to the Yamen.

The last scene is a more magical scene, the samurai undead made a confession through the mouth of a witch: he did not push his death and his wife's humiliation on the polycystic pill, but blamed his wife's profligacy and chaos. The original description of

is like this: "Listening to the robber, my wife lifted up her fascinating face! I have never seen a wife so beautiful." His wife betrayed him, and his wife's behavior made him Feeling painful, he took a knife and pierced his chest in search of death.

Understand the three different confessions, we can find that everyone seems to be telling their own unfavorable side to the court. Dukanamaru and the woman blame the samurai's death on themselves, and the samurai is more calm and bluntly confessed his wife's disapproval Zhong, this should be a shame for a Japanese man even more.

So... is each of them telling the truth? Why should they expose their shortcomings? What is the truth of that day?

has to go back to the source and understand the true purpose of the original author of the script, Akutagawa Ryunosuke. In this article, Akutagawa is narrating his thoughts, rather than telling a story of reasoning; so the final truth is the thought that Akutagawa wants to narrate-Skepticism and egoism.

Akutagawa once stated in the literature that he is a thorough skeptic, even in the face of poetry with infinite awe and emotional impulse, he hopes to do his best to be a person who can always remain suspicious. .

At this point, we finally understand the true content of "In the Bamboo Forest": it is to display and enlarge the thoughts in human nature without modification, including the most selfish, self-interested and darkest side. The reason why

polycystic pill faces death straightforwardly and calmly is because there is a silent game in his heart, because compared with death, there are things in his mind that are more worthy of his maintenance, and this thing is his reputation .

Dukanangwan’s confession is full of his upright masculine behavior: he untied the samurai, and asked the samurai to pick up a knife to fight him to the death, because he does not kill unarmed people; he faces the pursuit of women with daggers.

fought hard, but just dodged with bare hands, because he did not use weapons to deal with women; when he was evenly matched with the samurai, after 23 rounds of fierce battle, he did not worry about his life, but expressed his admiration for the samurai because he wanted to It is necessary to create a fearless image that will feel satisfied and happy when the opponent meets the game; even to the catcher's statement that he fell from the horse, he refutes extremely fiercely, explaining that his stomach hurts so uncomfortably that he fell.

What is the price of making people believe everything he says? It's his own life. This is human nature. We often hear the sentence: "I lie to you, do I make money?" So how do I make others believe what I say? Just make that person believe that he won't get any benefit by saying these words, and even lose his seemingly important benefits to the outside world. The degree of trust in this sentence is directly proportional to the magnitude of the self-abandoned interest here.

But please be aware that the benefit here is "looks extremely important to others outside", for yourself, there must be a greater benefit. For Duocangwan, when he couldn't escape death, he chose to go to death with arrogance, keeping the image of the thief who was upright and bold.

A woman and a samurai are the same. One admits that he has killed her husband and restored his self-esteem as a woman; a fact that he bears the ridicule of being betrayed by his wife hides his incompetence as a man. . The movie

is about to end, and the most "Rashomon" moment in the whole film is about to come. To the woodcutter's own eyes, Wu Kangmaru and the samurai are just the most cowardly coward. The two of them fought in a funny duel like a sketch under the sarcasm of a woman, and ended up in the samurai's "rejection".

We always say that the narratives of non-stakeholders are more credible than those directly related to the event. But the contradiction also arises, and who can guarantee that the woodcutter is not a vested interest in the incident and thus conceals the truth? And what does it mean when a woodcutter is finally willing to adopt a baby abandoned by his parents? Is it salvation or a greater conspiracy?

This is director Akira Kurosawa's innovation in the original work, leaving us with a bigger Rashomon incident in each of us.