Rashomon Analysis

I'm very slowly going through the canon of classic movies - one that pushed the bounds of the medium and have come to Kurosawa's Rashomon. This one I've heard of since junior high, and it's fabled treatment of "subjective truth" was so right up my alley I didn't bother watching it.

What I knew of it (and what you probably knew) is that it shows a tragic sex crime through multiple perspectives, revealing the difference in how it looked to different people involved. I assumed it would provide expiation for the assailant, showing how they thought what they did was fine.

Turns out I was pretty wrong about that. Spoilers below the cut.