Rashomon

gaining sympathy from listeners or in persuading them about points they want to convey” (76). Taken together, the storyline and testimonies are co opted to create the color-blind racial narrative through four major storylines (Bonilla-Silva 77). The Rashomon Effect also inhabits these storylines. For example color-blind racists justified their opposition to affirmative action using one of the storylines Bonilla-Silva categorized (83-87). The “I did not get a job for (or a promotion), or was not…

In order to understand the impact of a traumatic memory from the past on the present we must first understand what memory is. The act of remembering is something we begin to do subconsciously, it is an innate evolutionary feature adapted for survival. Memory is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experiences and we use it in our daily lives without realising.Fundamentally, memory represents a change in who we are. Our habits, our ideologies, our hopes and fears are all influenced…

suggestion that she re-enroll in school. She talks her way into late registration in professor Lilian Friedman's (Viola Davis) class and the two become friendly. “THEM” This isn't the first time a film has told the same story from multiple perspectives; Rashomon did it and so did Timecode. There were even two movies made for British TV in 1973 that starred Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor: On one night viewers could see Divorce His, and on the next Divorce…

A Brief note on Nationality: According to my perception, nationality means belongingness to a particular nation by birth or by nationalization, it also comprise when people have common tradition, culture, values, ethics, origin or often a nation. For example, immigrants of same nationality often seek out for each other, this usually defines their sense of nationality and belongingness. Nationality is also considered as a legal relationship between a state and a person, and nationality usually…

What is memory? According to one definition: “Memory is our ability to encode, store, retain and subsequently recall information and past experiences in the human brain.” (from human-memory.net) In both these films, Memento and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, memory is the foundation for personal identity. We need memory to be stable, and without memories we are destined to repeat our mistakes. One film is about how one person is trying to recall their memories, the other is trying to…

Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills have been at the centre of Post Modernist and Post-Structuralist discourse since the 1980s. This paper will address the arguments made by Rosalind Krauss, Judith Williamson, Laura Mulvey and Jui-Ch’i Liu surrounding these film stills. The work at hand consists of a series of black and white photographs where Sherman plays the role of the director and the agent to construct an image and mise en scène that has an uncanny resemblance to 1950s snapshots of…

Rashomon, another film by Kurosawa, shares many characteristics that can be seen in Kagemusha, other than the fact that they both contain samurai. One of the most easily seen aspects that is in both films, is the stage-play like acting. The characters make…

In the twentieth century many reached the understanding that disputes are normal in human society, and not necessarily destructive, and that if they do not get out of hand they may have within them a potential for growth, maturity, and social changes, an opportunity for new ways of thinking and new experiences. Because conflicts are an integral part of human interaction, one should learn to manage them: to deal with them in a way that prevents escalation and destruction, and arrives at new,…