Message from ccarter

OK, Rashomon is an excellent Kurosawa film that gets to the point that diiferent people can see the same event and interpret that event in significantly different ways. This is a film that involves rape, so it is NOT for a typical World History class, but I show after-school films for kids, and this one is making the list. It is so very difficult to get kids to understand the subjectivity of personal memory, let alone the bias of memiors. The movie can springboard into a discussion of what history is. Who writes history? Whose version is accepted as fact? How can a person use critical thinking and analysis to determine more and less riliable primary source documents?

A great film in itself. No, a GREAT film in itself, and also useful for teaching about perspectives in history!

Chris Carter