April 15, 1998
Number Two of Ten Movies That Shook Wanniski
Memo To: Website browsers, fans & clients Author: Jude Wanniski <http://www.polyconomics.com> Re: Ten movies that helped shape my life: #2
"Rashomon." (1950) There are several foreign films I saw as a boy that made me think of how different people were in other parts of the world. Rashomon, from the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, was about the universality of human nature -- the elusiveness of truth everywhere in the world. There are four people involved in an event that occurs in the middle of a forest in 16th century Japan. There is a nobleman, his beautiful consort, a bandit, and a bystander. There is conflict, a sexual episode between the woman and the bandit, and a murder. The heart of the film consists of the same event played out four different ways, according to the recollections of the four participants. This troubling film taught me that there is no such thing as objective fact or pure objectivity and built upon the lesson of The Ox-Bow Incident. It made it easy for me to see how Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill told the truth, although their stories were 180 degrees apart. It also enabled me to appreciate the conflicting stories of President Clinton and Kathleen Willey. People sometimes remember what was in their mind at the time of a stressful situation because it really was in their mind.
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