The film is known for a plot device that involves various characters providing subjective, alternative, and contradictory versions of the same incident.įrom left to right: Virumaandi Vagrant Story.
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This phenomenon is called the “Rashomon effect”, named after Akira Kurosawa’s movie Rashomon (1950). It is not known whether they speak the truth or not, and perhaps one cannot be sure what happened even though everyone was genuinely trying to tell the truth. Each could have an incompatible version of the events that followed. If there is no other evidence for what happened, it would be possible to interview the four people involved and never reach a conclusion of what really happened. The other one saw the vehicle pass and run over the alleged victim, but it happened so fast that it seemed to them that there was someone else in the car other than the drunk man mentioned above. Suppose further that it is known that a driver passed by with his car, and that he would have had a lot of beer that night, but that he claimed he didn’t remember anything, and there is no evidence to incriminate him.įinally, suppose there were two witnesses to the accident, but one of them claims that they only saw the driver, not anyone being run over. She finds herself in a hospital after losing consciousness before noticing what had befallen her, as she herself reported. Suppose there is an alleged car accident on a certain night and an alleged victim who was found in the middle of the street.
Have you ever noticed that it is sometimes impossible to know for sure what happened in a certain event? As an example, consider the following case:
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