Rashomon

Rashomon My analysis paper is based on mise-en-scene in Rashomon. The mise-en-scene, which means putting on the stage and it covers the setting, props, costumes, performance, lighting, and color. The way these elements are modified and are arranged within the film to appear on screen is the composition (Abrams et.al 96). I consider the setting, the use of light and shadows, and the composition, the relevant elements of mise-en-scene that makes possible the understanding of Rashomon and which can be noticed in the film. Rashomon is a movie made by Akyra Kurosawa in Kyoto (Japan). This film was the first Japanese film watched by many western audiences and it won the Grand Prix at the 1951 Venice Film Festival. This film is based on two
In the setting, the author use details to emphasize the relationship between the story told and the setting. The film star with the seen of of Rashomon (the gate) and later on and in a continuous manner, the camera shows different parts of the Rashomon building; specifically, in one of these first seen the camera shows the building frontally deteriorated and the large part is destroyed and in deteriorated conditions. The conditions of this deteriorated building are like a metaphor of the deteriorated story that later on took place in the film
After Citizen Kane, early movies in the 1940s and 1950s had adopted the technique of telling a story within the story of the film from different people’ perspectives using flashbacks. However, as Makinster said, “in Rashomon we have a series of flashbacks with different narratives” which introduces the use of flashback without figuring out the truth of a story; in this part of the setting we have different versions of what happened in the wood. Is in this part of the movie where the director uses the same place to show how human being even though being in the same place and experiencing the same situation, may have different points of views perpetuated by the necesity of self-protection and selfish. Is in the testimonies gave in the story that we see that an individual point of view of the truth is unbiased, and as W Bohn and L. Stromgren said, “the nature of the truth-that which as individuals perceive, or that we want others to believe” (279). Besides the nature of true perceived by the character, we as spectators are also included in the story told in the film to have our own point of view of the story and perceive the truth from our perspective. For instance, in the scene were Tajumaru (the bandit) killed the samurai in the version told by the woodcutter, the camera is located behind the wood and is shown like we, the viewers are the ones shooting this scene and the scene