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For a person drunk on the film society culture prevalent in Kerala during the Seventies and Eighties, "Rashomon" is a magic word.
Akira Kurasowa’s film enjoys cult status among movie buffs. It is rivetting in its presentation of “truth” in many layers, presented as a conversation among three people: a woodcutter, a priest and a commoner who take shelter under the ramshackle Rashomon city gates to escape a downpour. The story is the death (murder?) of a man, the rape (?) of a woman and the capture ...more
Akira Kurasowa’s film enjoys cult status among movie buffs. It is rivetting in its presentation of “truth” in many layers, presented as a conversation among three people: a woodcutter, a priest and a commoner who take shelter under the ramshackle Rashomon city gates to escape a downpour. The story is the death (murder?) of a man, the rape (?) of a woman and the capture ...more
DNF @ 39%
These stories are not bad but I just can't muster any real enthusiasm for them.
It is not helped by the stories being unconneced and by themselves not being great examples of the short story format.
Of course, they were not written as short stories in the Western literary sense. It's just that the way they are written is boring me stiff.
Maybe I'll pick this up again at a later date, but right now, this is not working for me. ...more
These stories are not bad but I just can't muster any real enthusiasm for them.
It is not helped by the stories being unconneced and by themselves not being great examples of the short story format.
Of course, they were not written as short stories in the Western literary sense. It's just that the way they are written is boring me stiff.
Maybe I'll pick this up again at a later date, but right now, this is not working for me. ...more
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