Kurosawa turns the traditionally objective lens into a subjective tool, recording half-remembered half-truths from unreliable sources.
The story, told partly in flashback, is a simple one about a bandit, a samurai and his wife, but the web of lies surrounding it is far from simple.
With minimal sets and very little dialogue to comfort us it's the technique that makes it special, that makes it infinitely watchable. The fixed perspectives put the onus on the viewer to decide what to believe.
5 kinds of truth out of 5
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