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Post date: Sep 6, 2020 3:12:09 PM
The 1950 film "Rashomon" investigates subjective story telling in its most pure film. That is all story telling has a bias based on what is told, how it is described and what is left out. For example "Gone With the Wind" only shows the positive sides of the old South.
Elements of subjective story telling is found in "Citizen Kane" where each character tell a different part of Kane's life with a bias of their own perspective.
In "Rashomon", it is more pure. The same incident is told from four different perspectives. It is apparent to the viewer that the stories of the people involves are biased since their own character in their telling is unrealistically heroic.
This is the movie that formalized "The Unreliable narrator" in movies. In recent years of YouTube movie analysis, every movie with a fanciful story is "revealed" as a unreliable narrator. For example, "Wizard of Oz", it was not just a dream, Dorothy was willfully lying to viewer because of some sort of problem with her aunt/uncle. Huh? That wasn't in the movie. This kind of analyst usually bipasses any emotional impact of the story.
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