Il piccolo Samuel esce dal suo mondo amish con la mamma e si ritrova involontariamente testimone di un omicidio. Il caso è affidato a John Book, che dovrà proteggere se stesso, il bambino e la comunità a cui appartiene dalla vendetta dei suoi assassini.
La trama di Witness - Il testimone ricorda un qualsiasi poliziesco in cui buoni e cattivi si scontrano su sfondi più o meno credibili. Ma che il regista Peter Weir non sia interessato al consueto plot di inseguimenti e fughe lo dice subito la soluzione del giallo e lo spostamento del mistero a una sfera più intima e spirituale. Attento a spazi liminali, al confine tra tempi interiori e strappi d'improvvisa seduzione, Peter Weir ha firmato film notissimi e capaci di far discutere come Picnic at Hanging Rock, Dead Poets Society and The Truman Show. It The witness, the Amish community they belong to the sweet Samuel (Lukas Haas ) and the lovely mother Rachel (Kelly McGillis ) is an opportunity missed for alienation of the intrepid John Book ( Harrison Ford) and the viewer. The surreal game of "cops and robbers" in the space-time outside of a farmhouse in the countryside of Pennsylvania has few parallels, I think, in modern cinema.
Peter Weir and the writers (and EW Wallace W. Kelley ) pull together the threads of a story of silence and tenderness, modesty and values \u200b\u200balien to the corruption of civil society. But I do not think that it is certified on the floor of an ethical difference so gross (and debatable), the message directed to a refined and elegant in terms of aesthetics (beautiful photography John Seale , and in many ways unexpected, even if here and there a bit 'of way.)
The Amish world and the world of "English" meet and gaze upon without interpenetration. It is not clear what Samuel understands or learns that life does not live, or how violence enters into his imagery, as well as in his life. However, what can not escape is that the kid does not lose its purity, but continues to impress for his calm presence and unwavering ... witness what it is not a murder, but a simple charm and fragile. Samuel is not the promise of the opaque world of the future without substance, conspiracy of some faith that seeks the consent of a prophecy: it is a child, testified that he saw, what he does, what it is. Samuel is the faith in man, not the God who determines the sentence to a life of almost monastic charming, but out of all time. Witness is not a documentary on the Amish community, but a further message to Peter Weir about the 'other , of \u200b\u200balienating its frame between the coding and the expectations, often senseless of life that we expect to live.
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