Witness
Witness This film starts off with some breath-taking establishing screenshots of the beautiful Amish countryside. ... We are presented with a shocking murder scene (hardly fit for a boy of 7 to ‘Witness’) that is intended to give the audience a fright. ... "Witness" is a feast of ravishing images and suspenseful rhythms: at a communal barn raising, the half-built barn swarms with men like bees making honey; at the police station, when Samuel identifies a photograph of the killer for John Book, Weir goes into sudden slow motion, creating an electric intimacy between the innocent boy and the hardened cop. Witness is a terrific compilation of the bucolic and the urbane, the low-tech and high-stress, the tension between a simple world (thats far from perfect) and a complex world (thats also far from perfect), the tension between a man and a woman. Witness is terrific entertainment, both thrilling and romantic, and its also fascinating to see the young Ford at work.