Rashormon by Akira Kurosawa - 1079 Words

The narrative in Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 Rashomon is famous for its unconventional style and structure, its method of storytelling is based on the characters perception of the truth, in film and television it is often referred to as the Rashomon effect. The visual style and symmetry are compelling proponents of the films symbolism, Kurosawa’s use of sunlight and dark shadows symbolizes the clarity of the story, an example would be the use of sunlight as good faith and the shadows as a dark impulse. The film tells the story of one event with four different accounts to it, each story is altered so that the truth is distorted or otherwise based on each characters perception of what has transpired. Kurosawa used four different alternate versions in the story as the narrative in the film, it is structured so the audience could have their own thoughts and perception of the real truth. Kurosawa also uses the philosophy of justice to show how human nature and moral relativism can not tell the absolute truth without the bias of ones experience, in other words the problem with the truth is that it is based on perception. Kurosawa adapted the story plot and characters from In the Grove written by RyÃ… «nosuke Akutagawa, he wanted the film to be objective keep the characters perfectly aligned with the original story by RyÃ… «nosuke Akutagawa. The narrative of the film Rashomon is based on the perception of each character that participated in the event that occurs in the film, so in some ways