Rashomon

I believe Kael is incorrect when she says that the film Rashomon is arguing that the narrators are each sharing the truth as they saw it and not lying because the accounts of what happened are too dramatically different to be mistaken as the truth. One thing I paid a lot of attention to at the end of the movie was that we, as the audience, do not really know the truth about what happened. I think Kael is correct in saying that we are getting subjective truths, but I also believe the characters are bending the truth to benefit themselves during their testimonies. There are a few key details that tell me somebody had to be lying. For example, in every story, excluding the final one told by the woodcutter, the samurai died in entirely different ways. In the Bandits story, he killed the samurai after an epic battle to the death. In the wife's account, she 'passed out,' but the samurai died next to her after he was frozen with disappointment. In the samurai's story, he kill...