Are you up to the test!?

Well, continuing on with plugging the gaps in the 100 films list from earlier in the month I sat and watched Rashomon the other day. I was going to comment on it earlier but truth be told I wasn't sure what to put down, actually im still not sure but I'll give it a go.

This isn't my first Kurosawa film, I remember watching Seven Samurai years ago and being blown away by it, inspired I watched another shortly thereafter, that being Ran, again I was incredibly impressed but for some reason I didn't continue on to another of his films. As lame as it sounds life must have got in the way.

Watching Rashomon really makes me regret the large gap in Kurosawa viewing and im definitely going to try and view his other films in the near future.

Rashomon in itself is almost indescribable, it's not some epic, you could almost call it underwhelming, it isn't really easy to say what it's about. Im not going to give a blow by blow account as from a quick look about the net it's already been done a huge number of times. On imdb there are at least 10 pages of reviews for the film.

I will tell you what I think the film is about though. I think it's about how people deal with something awful, how we explain it to ourselves and how we explain it to others.

It's a fantastic/amazing film. Simple idea, amazing execution, unbelievably thought provoking. Watch it.