Witness- Film Analysis Report.

Title of Film: Witness.
Date:1985
Director of film:Peter Weir.
Actor:Harrison Ford(John Book),Kelly McGillis(Rachel Lapp),Josef Sommer(Chief Paul Schaeffer),Lukas Haas(Samuel Lapp),Danny Glover(James McFee)
Type of film: Drama,Romance.


Summary and Analysis.
Samuel is Amish boy.He treveled with his mother Rachel.They went to the train station to go to Philadelphia.While they were waiting for train,Samuel went to restroom and he watched murder scene,so he was the only witness.John is a very honest police officer.He wanted to try to protect them from McFee parties.John and McFee got gun battle and because of that,John got wounded.He brouht Rachel and Samuel to Amish town and he got treatmented from Amish man.He stayed and adjusted to new and unfamiliar life in Amish town helping Amishes.While he is staying there,McFee party found out where he was.They droped in Amish town and they tried to kill John.However,their plan was failed and 2 people died.Finally,police officeres came to Amish town and John leaved that.




Relation to case study.
I think John is a person who adjusted to new life and culture very easily.He followed the Amish's rule well and he tried to be with Amish people working and helping with them.However,Dita could not like John.She did not try to accept new culture.She just tried to avoid her hard time in America.I think both of them got a similar situation but their attitide which accepted a new culture was different.

Reaction to Film.
I think this movie was the first movie that i watched very interesting in America culture class.It was easy to understand about culture shock so i could know it very easily.John and Rachel's love story was also very interesting thing.They had different culture but they fell in love each other.I have seen some Amish people in my dorm so it was very famililar and amazing while i was watching this movie. I was able to know about Amish watching this movie.After i wathced this movie,i came across Amish students.At that time, i recalled 'Witness'. Anyway, this movie was very fantastic and interesting to me.I expect to watch like this movie the next time.

Reaction Paragrarh.

Tae seon and ziyao got a discussion with classmates.They prepared some discussion questions that was related with movie.(Witness)That activity was such as Amish culture.I think they prepared enough questions.They made different aspects questions.Even though Tae seon's hand writing was a little bit confused,we got a good job i think.In my opinion, if we get a discussion presentation, we need more informations or specific questions.

Reaction Paragrarh.

We got a role play dividing two groups.Our team members were Lee,Se yong,Tae seon and Zyhao.Our team's situation was 'Act out a scene in the future in which Dita meets with her adviser and receives some moral support and practice advice.'Lee acted as an Indinesian advisor and Tae seon acted Dita.Se yong acted Dita's roommate and i and Zhyao acted roommate's boyfriends.I think our role play was the better and it was a little bit weird and shocking.Vacabulary presentation which did tina and Quin was good. They prepared game but our team did not win that game so we did not get delicious chocolates and jelly.I liked this all activities.

Comparing Dita and Masika

Both of this case has similarities and differences. I will write similarities firstly.
Dita and Masika are not Americans. Both of them are alien. Dita is from Indonesia and Masika is from Congo in Africa. In addition, both of them went to America to study. They were America college students. They felt culture shock while they were living America. They felt loneliness and isolation from their classmates because they did not get along with America friends. Especially, Dita felt that America food is not fit to her so she did not like America foods. America foods are too bland to her. Also both of them cried because of their hard time.
Secondly, I will write differences. Dita was just a student but Masika was married and she has a lively daughter. In addition, even though she did not get along with her classmates, Masika loved her class. However, Dita did not like her class. Besides, Dita hated American foods but it was not difficult to Masika. Dita got a problem with her roommate about sex and she regretted to come to America but Masika did not do that. Masika thought and asked some questions by herself. Such as ‘What was causing these feelings of isolation and confusion?, ‘Would I eve fit into this culture?’ Like this, Masika thought herself about different lies between America and her country. Moreover, Masika thought cultural adjustment is a process, that is not finished and she said it is a life-time adventure. She realized more cultural things when she was living in America. In addition, at the end of their story, Masika accepted her life in America but Dita still had a hard time to stay in America. I think Masika is more generous than Dita.