- The movie “Rashomon” delves into the mystery surrounding a samurai’s death and his wife’s assault. Through hearing the testimonials from various characters in the movie, we get to see contradictory versions of the event. Each of the narratives provides different truths, which leaves the us into question the nature of reality and human perception.
- The main symbol in the film is a threshold between truth and perception. It represents the confusion between the two ideas.
- The structure of the film is important to the telling of this story because showing multiple perspectives of the story mirrors the Rashomon effect. Also, because there are different testimonials for the same event, it makes us question which is false and which is true.
- There are many ways in which social media can exacerbate the Rashomon effect by allowing for the rapid spread of conflicting narratives and perspectives on current events. For example, when protests are happening, many news media try to capitalize on this and publish news articles that are different to try to differentiate themselves from their competitors. Because of this, they would sometimes provide false narratives of the event that occurred so that more people would be interested in the articles that the media outlet has published. A more in-depth example would be A protest going on in the city and one news article publishing an article of how there was a peaceful protest that happened trying to make a change in the world on the other hand, there would be an article where it says that the people who were part of the protest were very loud and this would cause confusion among the readers of the articles because they are reading two contradictory articles. The reason why these news articles became popular in the first place is because people like to listen to news that is more exciting and out of the ordinary so naturally media outlets would make some events seem more intense than how it was. One last example is the Jonny Depp trial. Some news outlets that are in support of Amber Heard have talked down on Depp saying how he is a terrible man and should be placed in jail but on the other hand, people who are in favor of Depp would publish an article saying how Amber Heard is wrongfully accusing Depp and should receive punishment for doing so.
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