Here through flashback, we are shown every account indirectly through the woodcutter and priest, of a rape and the murder of a samurai warrior through the eyes of five witnesses. The issue I have with this film is its repetitive nature, there appears triangles being formed by the three central characters in various scenes, this I thought was clever and whenever a triangle was broken, it signalled a negative shift in fortune. Yet the repetitive music although suited the retelling of the story it got boring after a while, yes it did highlight the depth of the narrative, yet I feel music could have been used more effectively with like 'une femme est une femme,' silences at key points.
Throughout the film we are constantly shown close ups of characters faces and expression and this is used as an essential vehicle in order to show emotion and I feel allows us to really identify with how the characters are feeling and helps us guess who is guilty of the crime. Kurosawa is clever in that he gives us no obvious reason to trust on witness over the other throughout the trial, this therefore makes it interesting for us to deduce what actually happened.
My problem with this film is the amount of multiple viewpoints although it may on the one hand make it interesting, it becomes rather repetitive and this is not helped with the repetitve music.
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