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Flashback: Rashomon and Three other films

This study is about the Flashbacks in Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon and three other films that have the similar flashback patterns as those in Rashomon. In Brian De Palma's Snake eyes. The director uses Rashomon style flashbacks as the Key narrative device. De Palma uses Rashomon style techniques in order to retelling the big event from the perspectives of various key players. In Rashomon, this technique gives us a phenomenological insight. Therefore, we cannot decide who tell the truth. However, in Snake eyes, as you can notice later, some witnesses tell a lie. Every witness or potential witness to the crime has his or her own specific point on what happened. In Mario bava's film Four Times That Night, you cannot tell who tell the truth, even though it has the four Flashbacks. In Andrzej Munk's film Man on the tracks, through the four character's flashbacks, you can have the better understandings about the main event and the main character. With the time analysis, you can see that some films heavily rely on the present and others are not. In common with Rashomon, Three films have four character's flashback that tell the same event in different point of views. However, their uses of flashbacks are various.