“What I told you is true, from a certain point of view.” From the moment Alec Guinness’ Obi-Wan Kenobi uttered those words in Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi, the saga has been exploring new ways to play with perspective. The best examples of this feel like a tribute to Akira Kurosawa, the legendary director whose samurai films have been inspiring Lucasfilm for decades. Rashomon in particular uses dueling perspectives as a narrative device: the film tells the same story from the POV of three very-different characters, all while denying audiences the objective truth.
