It was the third time I watched Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon". The first time was 30 years ago and each time I "saw" and "perceived" the movie differently. If you have seen the movie you would know the perception of reality is at the heart of the story. The story is about a rape/murder case happened in the woods and the accounts of all involved. The rapist, the victims of rape and murder, the witnesses( a monk and a woodcutter) told their side of the story at a local courthouse. Each story was told in such a vivid and paradoxically "truthful" way that the audience (me in this case) believed each version as it was told and totally forgot about the last one!
The story I'm making up today from watching "Roshomon" last night is this - our mind is a brilliant con artist. It makes up stories incessantly: about ourselves, others, nature, and the whole universe. Since there is no way and a waste of time really to pin down the so-called truth we might as well learn how to tell stories like Kurosawa.
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