Akira & Walt

I found Rashomon to support the common phrase "there are many sides to every story." Just as Benjamin described the complexities that go into filming an actor, Kurasowa captures both the actors and the stories creating multiple works of art at once. I enjoyed the way that the perspectives the viewer sees are stories seen, manipulated, told, manipulated, and retold while being manipulated. Beyond that Kurosowa is retelling a story through film and the camera is retelling the stories of what the actors did. The viewer also must manipulate the stories to decide what really happened and base their decision off what the actor did, the camera captured, and they saw. I enjoyed the film and the reading really plays off of its strengths.