Akira Kurosawa - Rashomon (1950)

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I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.

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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

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