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Read to the end — Kurowsawa's memo to his assistants, who didn't get what Rashomon was about at first If you haven't seen Roshomon, it's the story of a trial in which the participants relate their versions of the same event from their respective points of view. It's a great elucidation of "perspectivism" aka "standpoint" epistemology. In this sense, the work is "philosophical"in addition to being a cinematic tour de force. All of Kurosawa's films are monuments in cinematic art, and many critics and filmmakers consider Roshomon to be his topper. "Human nature" may make human beings homogenous to a degree, e.g., owing to similar biological structure and function, but the manifestation of that nature is heterogenous in individuals, owing to numerous factors and influence desire,
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: film history, history of cinema
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Read to the end — Kurowsawa's memo to his assistants, who didn't get what Rashomon was about at first If you haven't seen Roshomon, it's the story of a trial in which the participants relate their versions of the same event from their respective points of view. It's a great elucidation of "perspectivism" aka "standpoint" epistemology. In this sense, the work is "philosophical"in addition to being a cinematic tour de force. All of Kurosawa's films are monuments in cinematic art, and many critics and filmmakers consider Roshomon to be his topper. "Human nature" may make human beings homogenous to a degree, e.g., owing to similar biological structure and function, but the manifestation of that nature is heterogenous in individuals, owing to numerous factors and influence desire,
Topics:
Mike Norman considers the following as important: film history, history of cinema
This could be interesting, too:
If you haven't seen Roshomon, it's the story of a trial in which the participants relate their versions of the same event from their respective points of view. It's a great elucidation of "perspectivism" aka "standpoint" epistemology. In this sense, the work is "philosophical"in addition to being a cinematic tour de force. All of Kurosawa's films are monuments in cinematic art, and many critics and filmmakers consider Roshomon to be his topper.
"Human nature" may make human beings homogenous to a degree, e.g., owing to similar biological structure and function, but the manifestation of that nature is heterogenous in individuals, owing to numerous factors and influence desire, thought, and action, e.g. cognitive-affective bias, some of which is embedded in braining functioning and some environmental.
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Screenwriter Dies at Age 100, Of "Rashomon," 1950, Greatest Film of Japan Ever.
J. Barkley Rosser | Professor of Economics and Business Administration James Madison University