“I don’t understand,” says the man, crouching beneath a decaying Japanese temple gate. He gazes out disconsolately, as a biblical deluge turns the surrounding field to mud. “I just don’t understand.”
The move to place clashing stories within the same frame – to make subjectivity of experience a subject itself – was a major influence in 20th-century art, from cubism to surrealism to jazz. It animates such films asThe Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him. And with social media refracting our lived reality into billions of individual truths, it can feel as if the truth itself is becoming harder to divine.
It begins with a brief prelude, in which the woodcutter and a priest, bringing to mind Vladimir and Estragon in a medievalmorosely reflect on their desolate circumstances. “War, earthquake, winds, fire, famine, the plague,” says the priest, as a third man, a commoner who has come in out of the rain, listens on. “Year after year, it’s been nothing but disasters. And bandits descend upon us every night.
And so he acknowledges that he was resting in the woods when a breeze picked up the seductive scent of a woman passing by on a horse, led by her samurai husband. “These thoughts that weren’t there before, filled my head,” he tells the court. He beguiles the man into following him alone with promises of cheap swords and mirrors he says he’d found nearby. Then he ties up the samurai and returns to the woman, raping her.
As Tajomaru , left, tells it, he and the samurai then engage in an epic battle, crossing swords no fewer than 23 times, before he fells the other man.We return to the court and hear from the woman, who explains that she sought comfort from her husband after her assault. But he looked at her, she says, with “a cold light, a look of loathing,” which left her shattered. She pleaded for him to kill her, but he couldn’t even be bothered.
GlobeArts there are better hollywood film metaphors for trudeaus digressions lol . Scarface Godfather Manchurian candidate lol