... by a Palestinian suicide bomber. To a Palestinian, a photograph of a child torn apart by a tank round in Gaza is first of all a photograph of a Palestinian child killed by Israeli ordnance." (Sontag 4). Perception of events goes through a similar filter, and is even more susceptible to mutation. This filtration affects the way people retell an event, and potentially distorts their very ... perception of the event. In the case of Rashomon, no photographic evidence was presented; it was simply four people with four different accounts, four people with conflicting interests, retelling some...

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