Word: rashomon
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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What the kids say may be silly, impractical or illusory. To listen to children is like watching the film Rashomon: participants in the same event see it in drastically different ways, all "true." But listening pays?especially in an era when rapid social change is creating roughly one new U.S. generation every five years...
...events as they must seem to other characters as well. The same conflicts are dramatized differently in several scenes. Voices echo and re-echo as tension and release are reflected in household rituals. In his fragile miniature of life, Kawabata has managed to present as many enigmas as Rashomon without shifting attention from...