This is a work of art and how many films can you say that about?
Rashomon like it plays with memory. Do the young lovers really remember the most tender and precious of their memories? The film opens with Jansci wondering if his first memory of Kata really happened. A later recollection he keeps flashing back to and is obviously precious never occurred. He confuses the two women in his life. Do the lovers really see the person or merely an idealised image of each other which only exists in their minds.
Then it is a love story for Hungary. Kata obviously suffers both being apart from Jansci and in her isolation from home. Her last monologue points this out very poignantly.
Note the masterly way in which the director critiques the isolation of the Eastern bloc in showing what a big deal it is to be able to travel outside the country! And it shows how the world can get in the way of love. But so can wanting to love
Rashomon like it plays with memory. Do the young lovers really remember the most tender and precious of their memories? The film opens with Jansci wondering if his first memory of Kata really happened. A later recollection he keeps flashing back to and is obviously precious never occurred. He confuses the two women in his life. Do the lovers really see the person or merely an idealised image of each other which only exists in their minds.
Then it is a love story for Hungary. Kata obviously suffers both being apart from Jansci and in her isolation from home. Her last monologue points this out very poignantly.
Note the masterly way in which the director critiques the isolation of the Eastern bloc in showing what a big deal it is to be able to travel outside the country! And it shows how the world can get in the way of love. But so can wanting to love