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Watched Witness (1985)
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Date: December 10th, 2024 9:54 AM Author: Duck-like dark dilemma I watched Witness (1985), a surprise financial hit starring Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis (a year before Top Gun), after it was recommended as a dissident film. The basic plot is that an Amish child witnesses a murder conducted by corrupt cops, and an honest cops goes into hiding with the Amish to escape those corrupt cops after he discovers what happened. One then gets to see the Amish way of life and the culture clash between them and regular America.
It is a dissident film because it portrays the Amish way of life in a very positive manner - it shows healthy community and togetherness and features a great scene of the Amish raising a barn together. Because of this Hollywood really didn’t want to make the film - the Jewish executives repeatedly called it “rural” as a pejorative, rejected the project many times, and David Cronenberg refused to direct it because he “could never be a fan of the Amish”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness_(1985_film)#Development
Ford, to his credit, read the script, loved it, and it eventually got made.
With that said, the plot of the film was otherwise very standard. I don’t like Kelly McGillis as an actress - there is something about her face I just don’t like, it was distracting to me, and her Amish accent was spotty and irregular. I also don’t like films which heavily feature children, which is what happened here with the Amish boy played by a young Lukas Haas because children are distracting, they are limited into a couple tropes (wonder child, innocent child, etc) and they limit plot development paths and increase it’s predictability.
Overall I would give the film a 6/10 - it’s a decent film, and dissident, but also kind of mediocre other than spotlighting the Amish way of life (which looks like it hadn’t been shown to audiences before).
Ebert gave it 4/4 stars: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/witness-1985
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Date: December 10th, 2024 9:54 AM Author: Tripping Public Bath who in the absolute fuck cares about this shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5647299&forum_id=2#48432447) |
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Date: December 10th, 2024 9:55 AM Author: Duck-like dark dilemma what should I care about, brother? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5647299&forum_id=2#48432448) |
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Date: December 10th, 2024 10:00 AM Author: amethyst balding knife (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5647299&forum_id=2#48432460) |
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Date: December 10th, 2024 10:52 AM Author: Ivory Macaca used to love this film
it was on tv all the time |
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Date: December 10th, 2024 10:53 AM Author: Duck-like dark dilemma what made you stop loving it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5647299&forum_id=2#48432620) |
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Date: December 10th, 2024 10:54 AM Author: grizzly mind-boggling market kitty Amazing. Harrison Ford was 57 when he did that movie (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5647299&forum_id=2#48432623) |
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Date: December 10th, 2024 10:57 AM Author: pink casino isn't there a pretty erotic nude scene when the amish chick let's ford perv on her?
also i believe there's a young viggo mortensen in this film. |
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Date: December 10th, 2024 10:59 AM Author: Duck-like dark dilemma yes viggo's first film role. he only has like a line of dialogue though
yeah, kelly's tits are shown. must have been a jewish studio requirement |
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Date: December 10th, 2024 3:59 PM Author: Duck-like dark dilemma (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5647299&forum_id=2#48433796) |