We already saw in the last depiction of this story that the masked dog struck Adrienne on the back of the head with a rock, causing her to lose her balance and fall down the cliff. Here, that detail is conspicuously absent. What do you think of stories where the details change, being either contradictory or subjective or skewed on purpose to serve the needs of the teller? Akira Kurosawa's Rashōmon (1950) is of course the classic example of this, to the point that the phenomenon is named after it. Citizen Kane (1941), The Woman in Question (1950), The Usual Suspects (1995), Courage Under Fire (1996), Hero (2002), and Gone Girl (2014) are also fine examples of this in cinema, some of which even predate or are close contemporaries of Kurosawa's work. Do you have any favourite stories that play with perceptions by employing the “Rashōmon Effect”? —Scott D.
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