The latter is a film in which the story focuses on an assassination attempt against the American president, seen from the different "points of view" of different characters. Unlike Rashomon's philosophical and subjective approach, which ultimately attempts to piece together the different perspectives to reveal a "true" narrative, Vantage Point instead reveals the assassination attempt from different points of view, although each point of view is not not a flashback like it is in Rashomon. Here we have a certain and direct view (from each of the eight witnesses) of the event as the narrative attempts to move forward. It can be argued that although the two films immediately seem similar in approach, they are in fact almost polar opposites. The main goal of Vantage Point is to determine exactly who was behind the event and for everyone to go home satisfied. In Rashomon, we are asked to travel to the deepest echelons of storytelling and question the provenance, subjectivity and fragile composition of history.