Rashomon

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It is evident that indeed history has the predilection to rely on its context in order to interpret various events that have taken place in its respective course. A number of events have always shaped how the film industry deduces these facts and later develops innovative plots for potential movies as well as television shows. This particular paper is going to analyze three films and explore the aforesaid issues.

Rashomon (1950)
Director: Akira Kurosawa; Written by Akira Kurosawa and Hashimoto Shinobu; based on short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
This particular film is actually based on the 11th Century feudalistic Japan whereby the sword was still regarded as being omnipotent, and the person who wields it, the “samurai warrior”, is also …show more content…

Honour was also highly revered and a person who was without honour was not viewed as someone with any semblance of worth. Having the above in mind, it is quintessential for us to understand that in this film, facts are in more ways than one relied upon by establishing that definitely the samurai warriors during this time shaped how the Japanese perceived life and modes of living (Dixon & Foster, 2008). Due to the fact that people feared the samurai warrior’s strict codes of conduct to some degree, it appreciably made the populace become more wary and cunning in order for them to survive their harshness. This unique perspective of being at the mercy of the samurai forged their interpretation of the issues that took …show more content…

Writing credits: Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan
This is an American neo-noir psychological thriller, which is based on the director’s younger brother’s shorts story known as “Memento Mori” (Kaufman, 2009). This particular film has explored perception in a manner that is both alluring and captivating. Firstly, we can see that the said film is presented as a series of black and white and subsequently, a progression of color sequences, which were revealed in reverse order. By so doing, the director had the upper hand at replicating the audience’s mental state, especially of the central character who was ill with anterograde amnesia (Kaufman, 2009).
By captivating the audience, the director enthralled them by vividly depicting how an individual’s perception is important with regards to how a story is told and accepted. He had also made excellent use of human reminiscence tricks as well as props for the arguably intricate plot of making a somewhat short term amnesia be in a position of remembering ideas and events that aid in tracking down the lead’s wife’s killer. The thrilling effect of well-bound, tight plot that is supported by excellent acting and taut script does full justice of putting events in course for the final

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