Card #57 – ”Hear Other Versions” from the Creative Whack Pack
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Witnesses of the same event often have very different accounts of it.
A good example is Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa’s psychological film set in medieval Japan.
The story focuses on the apparent murder of a samurai traveling in the forest. Viewers are provided with four divergent versions from the characters involved: a bandit, the samurai’s wife, the dead samurai, and a woodcutter.
Each witness has a different interpretation of the “truth.” What emerges is how biased and self-serving each version is. In the end, we are not sure whether the samurai’s death was an accident, a murder, a suicide, or a dueling fatality.
Only by looking at the situation from multiple points of view do we begin to understand what has occurred.
— Are you solving the right problem?
— How else can your situation be explained?