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Rashomon : Akira Kurosawa

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  When most people see and talk about the Rashomon Effect in references with finding truth and fixing justice, broadly speaking in depicting how memory plays a seminal role to create and to mix up the fictional and real narratives, I have noticed more the Rashomon Triangle than effect when I have been noticing the framing and compositions of the scenes Akira had created in the Rashomon [1950].   I find the effect a bit universally present in the other forms of human artistic expressions but most probably Kurosawa gave it a justified floor in cinema. After watching the movie, I started reading Akira’s  Something like an autobiography  [1982]  in  the bus on the way to my office in the morning and I was stuck in a passage from the chapter Crybaby that gives a complete explanation of human subjective perspective on which Rashomon based upon.   The details of our life in this era can be found in a novel Uekusa wrote. But Uekusa has his viewpoint an...