TFM 363: Quiz 2 with 100% correct answers 2024/2025

TFM 363: Quiz 2Japanese Cinema: Rashomon - correct answer Summary: A bandit meets a nobleman and his wife in the forest, and somehow the nobleman ends up dead, and the wife possibly raped. Although at the subsequent various other parties testify, the focus is on the accounts of the bandit, the wife, the dead man (through a spirit medium), and a woodcutter who apparently witnessed the whole thing. Not only does none of the stories jibe with the others, but they are COMPLETELY different and each is morally undercut by the others. Kurosawa frames the conundrum in a conversation between the woodcutter and two other men (one of them a priest, and the other peasant) who have ducked out under a ruined gateway to get out of a heavy rain. Rashomon Syndrome - correct answer Ppl see the same thing, different perspectives. Can you ever be sure anything you see? Cinematic Qualities of Rashomon - correct answer Great lighting, view, shadowing. The shadowing made the viewer feel like they are a part of.. **Rain effects. Rashomon Article - correct answer 4 different stories, 4 different perspectives. No closure, no solution No one is telling the truth. There is no objective truth. - Priest relates his observations. He is slow, somber, and depressed. Always the observer. Priest is often at the background, just watching. Some say he represents Kurosawa's own viewpoint. He is the thoughtful one. He wants to distance himself but can't. The event hurts him. The wife's story full of her expected emotions. She does the things expected from a woman. But she hates both. Full of hate. More insane than bandit. - The wife's only real emotion shown during duel. She gets them fighting as she wants. She calculates what will happen to her. She is fascinating and frightening. She is manipulative black widow or a woman held captive by society, but she is the most dangerous character. Woodcutter's story supposed to be resolution, more truthful, but not. The final story ıs also a lie. Extremely dark and pessimistic film. Humans experience life only subjectively.