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The article uses the term "Rashomon effect" without defining it. I hadn't heard of it before, and here's what I found: The Rashomon effect occurs when an event
by apo 8y ago
The article uses the term "Rashomon effect" without defining it. I hadn't heard of it before, and here's what I found:
The Rashomon effect occurs when an event is given contradictory interpretations by the individuals involved. The effect is named after Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, in which a murder is described in four contradictory ways by four witnesses.[1] The term addresses the motives, mechanism and occurrences of the reporting on the circumstance and addresses contested interpretations of events, the existence of disagreements regarding the evidence of events and subjectivity versus objectivity in human perception, memory and reporting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_effect
And here's a short video summary of the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP2MhghDal4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP2MhghDal4
- blacksqr 8y agoThe so-called "Rashomon effect" is mis-named. The point of the film was not that everyone has a different perception of the truth. It was that everybody lies to preserve their sense of self-righteousness, no matter who else it damns, even when they have nothing left to lose. It was a depiction of Hell.
- throwaway2048 8y agoI think the point of the story is subtler than that, its not so much that people consciously lie, its that their recollections are shaped by their own desire to be in the right.