Rashomon-Effekt

26. März 2009


Rashomon – Verfilmung nach zwei Erzählungen von Ryunosuke Akutagawa

••• Meine ans Ideologische grenzende Begeisterung für die »monologische Methode« – in zwei unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen exerziert sowohl im »Anderen Blau« als auch in der »Leinwand« – beruht auf dem subjektiven Wirklichkeitsverständnis, das notgedrungen aus ihr resultiert. Was ich bis eben nicht wusste: Es gibt einen Begriff dafür.

The Rashomon effect is the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it. A useful demonstration of this principle in scientific understanding can be found in the article „The Rashomon Effect: When Ethnographers Disagree,“ by Karl G. Heider (American Anthropologist, March 1988, Vol. 90 No. 1, pp. 73-81).

It is named for Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon, in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways. The film is based on two short stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, „Rashōmon“ (for the setting) and „Yabu no naka“, otherwise known as „In a Grove“ (for the story line).

Darauf gestoßen bin ich, weil ich den Link zur Roshomon-Verfilmung gesucht habe, den ich irgendwo in den Untiefen des Turmseglers vergraben zu haben meinte. Gefunden habe ich den Link zu dem frei online zugänglichen Film bei der Herzdame und liefere ihn nun hier nach.

6 Reaktionen zu “Rashomon-Effekt”

  1. Andrew Shields

    Do you know Jim Jarmusch’s „Ghost Dog“? The book „Rashomon“ plays a role in it, and the „Rashomon Effect“ is then central as well (as are gangster movies, cartoons, and pigeons, along with the way of the Samurai).

  2. Benjamin Stein

    Of course I do. But as far as I know the book mentioned in »Ghost Dog« is Hagakure.

  3. ksklein

    But the book which he gives the little girl to read is „Rashomon“

  4. Benjamin Stein

    Touché!

  5. Andrew Shields

    Hagakure and Rashomon get mentioned, yes. And The Wind in the Willows!

    (How embarrassing to ask you if you know that movie: not only did you blog about it, I also commented on that post! I have my tics and obsessions, and Ghost Dog in particular, as well as Jarmusch in general, is one of them.)

  6. Benjamin Stein

    I have my tics and obsessions, and Ghost Dog in particular, as well as Jarmusch in general, is one of them.

    Why don’t you drop us some lines about your Jarmusch obsession as a »Gastbeitrag«? I never managed to write abut »Night on Earth«…

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