Errol Morris on Rashomon

Filmmaker Errol Morris reacts to Akira Kurosawa's 1950 masterpiece Rashomon.

Source: The Big Picture
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[elichilton]

"Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.“ — Akira Kurosawa

[petergivenbless]

Truth is objective, lies are subjective; though we may strive to recognise the objective truth, we can never fully escape the prison of our subjectivity.

[vitorafmonteiro]

The part about how the issue of Rashomon always being there but maybe it is more relevent for us now speaks to how after years of people across the spectrum talking of how there is no such thing as objective truth and all is bias (and they are natural and not to be avoided) did nothing but lower the standard to the point we got the "post-truths", nihilisms of 'if everything including what I think of is bullsh*t, why not thinking what I already d, oor constantly changing stance, since everything is equally unobjective?', a storm of fake news, etc.. Now we finally realise, like Morris "The truth is there! We just may never know it, we may never access to it".