Rashomon

The characters all exhibited personalities that were on opposing sides of the spectrum in this movie because of the four different perspectives given throughout the movie. While in one seen the bandit seen erratic, aggressive and intimidating, in another he's begging for forgiveness and offering his hand in marriage. You see how the characters perceive themselves through their own depictions of the events. Additionally I liked the scene where in the end, even the priest lost faith in humanity. When they found the abandoned child and the priest was holding it he initially thought badly of the man reaching for the child. And the man who was just scolded for being a their himself, offers to take the child himself and raise it. So despite the whole movie being set on the premise of deception and lies, the end restore your faith in the common good. The movie is set up as an informal trial, all of the perspectives are told. First, the bandit's then the women's, the medium's perspective through the murdered man and then the witness. The characters each told their story in their own self interest or whatever way they felt they should be viewed. The question of the movie is whether this is a realistic or distorted view of the world we live in? Do people truly lie for selfish reasons or are our perceptions so vasty different that we walk away from a situation lacking the correct sequence of events?