Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Witness
- Who's watched: M & G
- Mentions: None
- Commentary: The attraction for my mother with this movie is the wide swathes of glimpses into Amish life. I love the music [Maurice Jarre; the Jarres are my favorite father-son environmental composers] and the movie's seamless construction. We share our favorite scene: Hands down, the barn raising. My mother has been heard to say while this scene was unfolding, "Wouldn't it be nice to live that way again?" Telling comment: I believe it shows that she considers the way (and area within which) she was raised as a child culturally and spiritually similar to Amish society.
One other scene that always gets a rise out of her: When the heroine tells her father-in-law that he shames himself. "Good for her," my mother has been known to cheer.
Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Actor Role Harrison Ford John Book Kelly McGillis Rachel Lapp Lukas Haas Samuel Lapp Jan Rubeš Eli Lapp Josef Sommer Paul Schaeffer Alexander Godunov Daniel Hochleitner Danny Glover James McFee Patti LuPone Elaine Book Viggo Mortensen Moses Hochleitner Brent Jennings Elton Carter Frederick Rolf Stoltzfus Angus MacInnes Leon Ferguson
Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
Release Date: 1985
Directed by Peter Weir.
Labels: danny-glover, dramaB, harrison-ford, mystery2, neo-noirA, peter-weir, popcorn-and-soda6, shared-favorite
