It would definitely have sucked to be a woman in feudal Japan. I realize sexism was and still is common in many parts of the world, but it seems to have been particularly extreme in that time period in Japan. I felt the most bad for the wife in this, because no matter which story you think is the "true" one, she gets a bad deal in all of them.
shareI agree but I'm not sure that all who pass here agree with you.
Keep silent unless what you are going to say is more important than silence.share
agree
shareCan't argue with this.
In some cultures if a woman gets raped it is somehow believed by others to be her fault.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire
agree, and yet Kurasawa managed to tell the story without demonizing or belittling the woman. except of course for that horrible laughter. I suspect that laughter has more to do with the woodcutter's wife than the events in the woods.
I understand. Thank you for telling me. -The masked bandit
Yes, I think you're right. Kurosawa was a genius.
shareKurosawa managed to tell the story without demonizing or belittling the woman. except of course for that horrible laughter.
Yep. I certainly didn't think the Woodcutter's story was any more reliable than the others. It was just yet another account of the crime which seemed equally unreliable to the rest. Towards the end of the film he gets caught lying about taking the dagger as well (one of the reasons he didn't tell his story at the trial), further demonstrating the woodcutter isn't a completely honest person. He did redeem himself at the very end with the baby however, and in doing so also redeemed the priest's faith in humanity.
shareWhy feudal Japan only. It basically sucket to be a woman from the same reasons anywhere else since the dawn of time to cca 1969. In some parts of the World, even in some rural parts of ''civilised'' World it's the same story today.
shareIn some parts of the World, even in some rural parts of ''civilised'' World it's the same story today.Totally agree. In fact I think we could actually change "some" to "plenty of".🐭 share
I echo the previous posts. In "some" parts of the world, it is no less extreme than it was back then.
Hey there, Johnny Boy, I hope you fry!
Women had it rough because men were expected to die for them. A simple compromise for society is that women are submissive to the men who will struggle and toil away for them and maybe even fight and die for them. You can't complain about sexism and being unfair when both sides have to sacrifice and suffer for civilization.
Though I disagree with the notion of rape that many cultures carry/carried. The idea it is always the women's fault.
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