Rashomon And Memento Comparative Essay

Some people say that the story being told by the narrator must be true because they have lived it but i say the narrator is so unreliable that the only thing that can been seen as truthful in the film is the fact that a story is being told. In the films “Rashomon” and “Memento” the narrators tone changes throwout out the movie leaving the viewer in a situation where they don’t know what actually happened. This makes the film not to find truth, but to have the viewer create a hypothesis even if there are no results. During the films we see how the sequence of events changes the narrators storyline and changes how we view each character and theme that is presented. The narrative styles in both films have may similarities than differences. Each film creates a message for the viewers, that is its impossible to understand truth. Rashomon has multiple
He told the tale of how he outsmarted the warrior and his wife and attempted to rape her but didn't because she began to fall for him. He ends his tale by killing the husband with the sword. In the wife’s tale she says the bandit rapes her and she is left with shame and sorrow for her husband because he hates her for the rape brought shame on him. She despise rejection and then kills him with the dagger. The dead samurai tells a tale of the bandit rapes his wife and then tries to get her to leave with him. The husband’s wife then asks the bandit to kill him so she can be free of her marriage. The bandit denies the wife request and chases her, with shame of his wife being rape and grief of his wife rejecting him the samurai commits suicide with the dagger. In the woodcutter version the bandit rapes the woman and the husband nor the bandit wants her. The wife convinces both men to fight for her by challenging their manhood and the bandit kills the husband what looks to be like a accident with the samurai