Rashomon –
awaiting the flash
of truth
I wrote this haiku on the occasion of the Japanese Film Week.
It received the second prize at the 5th International Haiku Competition of the Pula Film Festival, Cinema Valli.
The competition judges wrote the following about the haiku:
“Everyone who has seen Rashomon, the masterpiece by the renowned director Akira Kurosawa, understands what it's about. Truth serves as the guiding star of the entire film, captured in that quintessential Kurosawa shot, with rays of sunlight filtering through the treetops, shyly revealing itself, just like the truth. It is a truth that often cannot be grasped through mathematical parameters – one that we all, like the film's protagonists, experience in our own way. Yet, as a flash of insight, it arrives at the very end.”
This haiku is personally very meaningful to me, as through my long professional experience I have come to realise that truth reveals itself beyond words and the mind – as a flash.