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...suggested that if the U.N. commander is so concerned for the security of his forces, he should withdraw from Korea. What a typical piece of upside-down reasoning! You've cast yourself in the role of a bandit who says to his victim, 'You've nothing to fear from me as long as you surrender your purse and walk away without creating a disturbance.' The U.N. has not come to Korea to surrender. We have no intention of walking away . . . and leaving the South Koreans to your tender mercies...
Stung into rage, Hsieh shot back: "Your statement is rude and absurd. You've gone too far in your absurdity and arrogance. You've reversed black and white. Your statement proves your lack of sincerity. You've fully exposed your ugly, ferocious features of a bandit...
...examiners rewarded Weissberg with 24 hours of food and sleep. Refreshed, he boldly recanted the whole document. "You whore! You counter-revolutionary bandit!" raged the examiner, shoving him back on the stool. Weissberg stood it another four days, "confessed" again, again recanted. He then stood the "conveyer" for a further five days-and staggered out triumphant. From then on, the G.P.U. merely kept him in prison and beat him up occasionally...
...husband die? In turn, the movie gives the dramatized explanations of the arrogant bandit, the tearful widow and, through the weird incantations of a medium, the dead husband. Each of these contradictory accounts is fundamentally a lie, colored by the guilty motives of the teller. All three are exposed by a fourth version, told by the woodcutter, who turns out to have been an eyewitness to the whole incident; and even the woodcutter falsifies some of his own story to let himself off easy...
Brilliantly acted, Rashomon bulges with barbaric force. The bandit (Toshiro Mifune) is an unforgettable animal figure, grunting, sweating, swatting at flies that constantly light on his half-naked body, exploding in hyena-like laughter of scorn and triumph. But, more than a violent story, the film is a harsh study of universal drives stripped down to the core: lust, fear, selfishness, pride, hatred, vanity, cruelty. The woodcutter's version of the crime lays bare the meanness of man with Swiftian bitterness and contempt...