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Thanks Seth, that's a brilliant summation of what I essentially feel about the 'humanist' ending of Rashoman.
I was really annoyed after the screening of Rashoman, because our TA was trying ardently to convince us that while a good movie it's not a Japanese movie because its so western with the very evil, very western humanism ending. The TA then attacked me when I tried to bring up the point that humanism seemed like a somewhat universal idea to me, and even if it is western in origin, why should we sneer at its iteration and adoption in other cultures? Someone else brought up the point, "I don't watch Japanese films to learn about culture," and the irrational response to that was "well, I'd like to think that there is more to movies than simple entertainment." :þ And actually this TA isn't very bad, he's generally very openminded.
Adam
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