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The 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 t
by blacksqr 8y ago
The 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.