更新时间:2013-10-16
duckducker • 罗生门:Modernist Narrative and Intertextuality
The use of multiple perspectives on the same set of characters and events, with each perspective constrained by individual consciousness, is a modernist narrative practice associated with novelists like Dostoevsky, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner. Such narratives are limited and relative in their degree of objectivity and truth.
(Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema by James Goodwin)
One of the most fascinating aspect of the film is just that it is extremely difficult to determine what it means. It shares with other modern art (abstract painting, free/form sculpture) an apparent lack of ostensible meaning which (in painting) returns to us our ability to see form and color, which (in sculpture) gives us our original vision--that of children--and lets us observe rock as rock, wood as wood, and which (in films such as Rashomon, Muriel, Paris nous appartient) allows us to examine human action undistracted by plot, undisturbed by ostentible reality.
(The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Richie)
(Akira Kurosawa and Intertextual Cinema by James Goodwin)
One of the most fascinating aspect of the film is just that it is extremely difficult to determine what it means. It shares with other modern art (abstract painting, free/form sculpture) an apparent lack of ostensible meaning which (in painting) returns to us our ability to see form and color, which (in sculpture) gives us our original vision--that of children--and lets us observe rock as rock, wood as wood, and which (in films such as Rashomon, Muriel, Paris nous appartient) allows us to examine human action undistracted by plot, undisturbed by ostentible reality.
(The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Richie)
