Give a brief outline of the plot (action) of the film?

a woodcutter went to the woods to cut some woods but find a men’s dead body instead. He answered those questions in court then came in the women who was raped the guy who raped her and the dead person. Each of their stories were different but had the ending of the men dying. 

What are the main symbols in the film, what do they represent?

The main symbol of this film is the rashomon gate. What the gate represents is how civilization began to fall apart the more you look at it. No matter who’s story we’re hearing there’s always a hint of a lie while mixing it with the truth. In the story no one is innocent.

How is the structure of the film important to the telling of this story?

I think the structure is important for the story. The way they laid out for us each story was different when out of a person’s mouth even if they were somewhat telling the truth they all lied. In this movie unlike the others there is no truth in this one each one of them had their own motive while doing this.

In what ways does social media exacerbate the Rashomon effect by allowing for the rapid spread of conflicting narratives and perspectives on current events? It exacerbates the Rashomon effect by telling us sometimes it doesn’t matter if what they said isn’t the truth, they just care about what they can gain from this. Like in Rashomon the women didn’t really tell us what happen but gave us a different story. if she told “yea I wanted my husband and Tajomaru to get into a fight and who wins gets to get me kill myself or take me away”. The consequences aren’t going to work in her favor. Or what Tajomaru said, he said he had a good fight with her husband but died he was impressed since he had 22 cross-sword match with him and people only survive 20 but in reality they were scared to attack each afraid they’ll if it wasn’t the fact the husband’s sword got stuck on a tree that wouldn’t have happened. Why didn’t he tell everyone what actually happened? It might be because of his memories. This is what actually happened which is there’s third eye that revealed the actual story.This is just like social media. There are many stories behind the incident but there is no truth because even though the crazy story might have come from the truth that doesn’t mean it is the truth. You could still say yes this happened today but it was a completely different story to what really happened. Not to mention there isn’t only one story so people might twist the story without even knowing because of perspective wise.