{"id":19867,"date":"2022-10-13T19:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T23:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=19867"},"modified":"2022-10-15T11:18:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T15:18:54","slug":"witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/witness\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"

{5\/5} “‘Maybe, sergeant, you could do a little telephoning.’ ‘Yeah, maybe I could. But since the Amish don’t have any telephones I wouldn’t know who to call.'”<\/p>\n

Witness<\/strong>, released in 1985<\/p>\n

Samuel, an Amish boy, witnesses a murder in a train station bathroom. While at the police station with the man assigned to the case, John Book, Samuel realizes that the man who committed the murder is a police officer. When Book is shot in a parking garage, he understands that there’s a conspiracy and they need to lay low — the perfect place to do that is in Amish country.<\/p>\n

The interactions between John and Rachel are priceless. I like how when John gives Rachel his gun she carries it as if it’s a piece of trash.<\/p>\n

One of my favourite parts is the barn-raising scene, in which the whole community works together — and they actually built a barn.<\/p>\n

It’s about colliding worlds, and what happens when you live in a community where everyone has each other’s backs.<\/p>\n

It is one of my favourite movies.<\/p>\n

Stars Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, and Danny Glover. Directed by Peter Weir (The Truman Show<\/strong><\/a>). The music by Maurice Jarre is mostly atmospheric but blossoms into a beautiful tune during the barn-raising scene.<\/p>\n

This is the 3rd or 4th time I’ve seen it. As I recall, it was the 1st movie I saw in the theatre with a friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{5\/5} “‘Maybe, sergeant, you could do a little telephoning.’ ‘Yeah, maybe I could. But since the Amish don’t have any telephones I wouldn’t know who to call.’” Witness, released in 1985 Samuel, an Amish boy, witnesses a murder in a train station bathroom. While at the police station with the man assigned to the case, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5,53],"class_list":["post-19867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19867"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19884,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19867\/revisions\/19884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}