Rashomon and Walter Benjamin

I went into watching the movie thinking it would not be interesting at all. I read the wikipedia entry on the movie and was bored reading that. However, after watching the movie, I no longer feel that way. I see why it was important to watch this movie and experience it as a form of art, like Benjamin shares, instead of a boring black and white film. This once again, reinforces the idea that literature is not just a piece of text, but so much more than that. Now I view things other than text as literature which makes, ie movies, limitless. As we were talking about translations a lot last week, and the week before, it really makes me think of what could have been lost through the translation.