Rashomon and Benjamin

After watching the Japanese movie, Rashomon, and reading the article by Walter Benjamin, the relation was evident in that the movie provided an example to the text by Benjamin in "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." He states that art has always been something that was reproducible or replicable by others. It's also interesting to know that many of what we have grown up with such as videos and cameras were not available in earlier times. They had to use other methods and means to reproduce a work of art.Benjamin mentions how it started off with engraving then print and then the invention of lithography moving on to the emergence of photography. With this capability, people were able to create films such as Rashomon and share it with other cultures. He also mentions that although it is great to be able to reproduce a piece of art,there are certain elements that are lost from the original piece. The film Rashomon therefore, is shown in its original black and white format only the the fact of subtitles. Although the film was not viewed how it was originally viewed when it first came out, I still sensed it originality and uniqueness.