Dan,<br><br>I found the contrast of _Rashomon_ to the Yimou Zhang's 2002 martial arts movie _Hero_ to be thought-provoking. _Rashomon_ contains multiple retellings of the same story from different viewpoints, but never resolves the question of &quot;who's right&quot;; in a sense, each retelling exists separately from all the others. Meanwhile, _Hero_ progresses through the multiple retellings of the story to get closer and closer to the truth of the matter - each subsequent retelling is a challenge to the previous one.
<br><br>David Smedberg<br><br>:From: &nbsp; &nbsp;Daniel Barnett &lt;<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind06%26L%3DFILM-PHILOSOPHY%26E%3D7bit%26P%3D5659972%26B%3D------%253D_Part_13198_4961799.1162493132180%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;<br>:Subject: theme and variations<br><br><div style="direction: ltr;">
:Esteemed colleagues:<br>:I am looking for examples of films that are structured by the statement of a<br>:theme followed by variations - ala Kurosawa's Rashomon, or Greenaway's<br>:Prospero's Books, or Pillow Book - narrative or lyrical, mainstream or fringe.
<br><br>:Thanks in advance.<br>:Dan Barnett</div>
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