Rashomon effect Puns

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What was the motive behind showing all the very different accounts of the different scenes? Did it lead to anything significant other than just showing time flawed points of view?

Hey guys! Was wondering if any of you had some recommendations for movies using the Rashomon effect or that have unreliable narrators? Preferably some non-Hollywood movies

Writing: B Plot: B+ Voice Acting: ranges from B- to A- Sound Quality: A Production: A Overall: B

The Rashomon effect occurs when an event is given contradictory interpretations by the individuals involved and that's what we have with the six disappearances of Ella Mccray.

In a lovely large house in wine country, USA, Ella Mccray and her family and friends are going to celebrate her engagement. The day before, Ella and a group of her closest family and friends, go for a day hike in the woods and Ella disappears halfway through the hike.

The police are informed and, of course, each person gives a different account of what happened. Most of the accounts talk about some otherworldly things happening except her fiancee who is convinced she is dead.

The head of the police investigation has asked that everyone carry a tape recorder with them and record their thoughts, etc. She thinks that by doing this some details will come to light that will help the investigation. Each episode is a tape from one person so you get their view of Ella disappearance and the aftermath.

For me, the best thing about the podcast is the plot which is ably carried through from the first episode to the season finale. However, the quality of the acting/writing is uneven so sometimes I just listen for plot points. For example, there is one character with a Minnesota accent whose reading of the dialog is jarring to me.

I do have a bone to pick with the writing. There is also a transgender character that I think is misused. The actor seems to have more to them than the dialog allows.

This may be a matter of preference on my part. I prefer my LGBTQIA characters not to stand out or get special treatment just because of their sexual orientation, unless that's the focus of the audio-drama (e.g. Love and Luck).

I do think it's worthwhile to listen to but it's not in my top twenty podcasts

I was just re-listening to The Trail Went Cold's excellent two-part podcast on the Tommy Ziegler case, and that got me thinking: Can anyone think of some other cases where the Rashomon effect played such a large role? That is, what are some other intriguing cases where there were multiple witnesses to the events, but their accounts were all for the most part completely different and mutually exclusive?

So I have this idea for my next session that I wanted to float by you guys. See what you think, what I might be overlooking, that sort of thing.

We're currently in the process of winding down a seven year long 4E campaign and I've been searching for ways to disrupt the usual go-here-talk-to-this-guy-fight-this-dude type of scenarios. I had an interesting idea that I'm eager to try out. I'm going to have my PCs be the subject of their very own Rashomon Effect. The adventure doesn't actually star the PCs at all. Rather, the session will begin with the PCs having just left a small farming community after ridding the villagers of bandits that have been preying on them. The entire game will be told through the eyes of three of the villagers as they recap the battle to the local innkeeper. Each of the villagers has a different take on the battle and the parties involved, so the PCs will play three very different versions of what is essentially the same encounter. This will allow the villagers embellishment of the events to influence how their version of the encounter plays out. For example, if one of them says "Naw, the Bandit chieftain was at least fifteen feet tall!", in his version of the encounter the bandit chieftain will be Giant instead of the half-orc that the villager who went before him had described. Or if one of the villagers is a local loudmouth, his version of the story will portray the PCs as incompetent, forcing them to take minuses or constantly critically fumbling.

What do you think? I'm open to any feedback. Also, if you haven't seen the Rashomon, it's a really good movie. Just putting that out there.

To understand how ideologically scrambling the Omicron wave has been, consider this: Some 2022 Democrats are sounding like 2020 Republicans. In spring 2020, many Republicans, including President Donald Trump, insisted that COVID was hardly worse than the flu; that its fatality risk was comparable to an everyday activity, like driving in a car; and that an obsessive focus on cases wouldn’t give an accurate picture of what was going on in the pandemic.

In the current Omicron wave, these Republican talking points seem to have mostly come true—for most vaccinated non-senior adults, who are disproportionately Democrats.

But Democratic talking points about the severity of COVID and the need for commensurate caution remain valid and not only for the sick and elderly. Ironically, they are especially true for the unvaccinated—a disproportionately Republican group that has seen their hospitalization rates soar this winter to all-time highs. About 9,000 Americans are dying of COVID every week. Preliminary state data suggest that more than 90 percent of today’s deaths are still among unvaccinated people. This year, COVID is on pace to kill more than 300,000 unvaccinated people who would, quite likely, avoid death by getting two or three shots.

The messiness of Omicron data—record-high cases! but much milder illness!—has deepened our COVID Rashomon, in which different communities are telling themselves different stories about what’s going on, and coming to different conclusions about how to lead their lives. That’s true even within populations that, a year ago, were united in their desire to take the pandemic seriously and were outraged by those who refused to do so.

A virus that seems both pervasive and mild offers an opening to people who are, let’s call them, “vaxxed and done.” The attitude of the VADs is this:

>For more than a year, I did everything that public-health authorities told me to do. I wore masks. I canceled vacations. I made sacrifices. I got vaccinated. I got boosted. I’m happy to get boosted again. But this virus doesn’t stop. Year over year, the infections don’t decrease. Instead, *vi

What I really love about these movies is the way you see the same sort of events from different perspectives, in ways that reveal more about the characters or what's happening. Obviously the Handmaiden is more of a twisty thriller and The Last Duel is a character drama, but they've got those similar aspects which I enjoyed.

So yeah, does anyone know movies which make use of events revisited in different contexts, multiple perspectives,. Etc. Something like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy which keeps coming back to the Christmas party. It doesn't need to be the whole narrative, even just small aspects of a movie.