Rashomon

A courthouse murder mystery/ whodunnit with us as the judges/ detectives. It was thoroughly enjoyable. The closing scene was especially good because the one character who we think could have a truthful perspective from the story because he has nothing to gain from it, unlike the other 3 who all moulded their tellings of the events in a way to leave themselves with more dignity, but even he’s confronted with what happened to the valuable dagger he remains silent. Akira Kurosawa leads you to believe that someone is telling the truth but there’s possibly not a single truth, maybe he even lied to the priest about having 6 kids too. I think it was beautifully executed! My first movie by Akira Kurosawa & after this certainly won’t be the last. i can now see why he gets such high regard. The soundtracks were amazing they captured each scene perfectly. The acting was honestly so great, half the cast have such memorable & contagious laughs it was quite pleasant. The screenplay was so intricate & purposeful, with a cast of only 8 people it created an interesting web of lies with possibly no way to untangle it. But this was actually so good it reminds me of 12 Angry Men both incredible!