Both Kurosawa's Rashomon and Makhmalbaf's A Moment of Innocence deal with the human form, morality, and universal social struggles. Both films try to recreate something that happened in the past. As with any event interaction, things won't be exact. Each film takes a different approach to proving this point. Rashomon uses a more literal method and has four different characters telling their own versions of the same story. Moment uses a more surrealist method, using several cuts of the same footage, with time repeating, then stopping indefinitely at the end. Both films raise similar questions about viewer trust and interpretation. There are many symbols in Rashomon that are meant to show how the truth is obscured. Kurosawa says this film is about the psychology of human error. This idea is a concept that can be seen throughout his work and his other films. Rashomon deals with the ideas of rape, murder, and honor, which are all examples of human moral failings. Kurosawa shows, through telling each character's story, how each person sees the world differently and interprets things differently, and how truth and morality are not as concrete concepts as the viewer might think. What one character believes to be the truth may not necessarily mean that the viewer believes the other character's story is a lie. Rashomon is a film that questions what truth means and how it is interpreted, but it also questions how different minds evaluate different events. The main point of the film is to show how difficult, if not possible, it is to arrive at an objective truth. through the vehicle of individual human consciousness. It remains to be debated whether there is a real... middle of paper... the spectator completely up in the air. Was the guard stabbed? Was he really stabbed or was he acting? The list of questions is endless. Makhmalbaf makes the viewer question everything they have just witnessed. More importantly, it makes the viewer wonder why any of this happened. Rashomon ends in a much more concrete way, but the truth is still not entirely guaranteed. The narrative structures of both films are very different, but ultimately leave the viewer with similar levels of ambiguity. Rashomon uses a simpler structure, telling the events in various flashbacks. Moment's structure is more misleading from the start, with the false sense of documentary already fooling the viewer, and then repetitive cuts to the films' climaxes to further disorientate the viewer from reality. At the end of both films, the viewer has no concrete idea of ​​what is real and what is not.