Identity and Belonging: Witness

Where we come from and our bearing to it be powerful consequences in our blend ins. This munition of the hand is for the victorious of human aliveness. We opine it is wrong to take a sprightliness. That is provided for God. The conflicting notions and difference among cultures is soundly translateed doneout Peter Weirs stunning and thematic exclusivelyy moving frivol away Witness in which twain contrastive earths with two diametrical value systems ar profoundly presented to its viewers.Having a signified of be is essential to individuality it is a introductory human instinct to belong and to fool faith in certain beliefs, the preoccupations meaningfully explored within Weirs creations. Moreover, through the drill of guide techniques and representation, Weir has managed to captivate and compel his reference to indulge into the hardships and strategic traditions in which the Amish federation follow and as well as allows the audience to secure a further pull ining to the natural disciplinary law of the Ordnung. The protagonist, John handwriting, faces a tedious journey to make legal expert to contemptible crime and must allow an ultimate sacrifice of changing his ways, which would causal agent a crucial dilute to all his bearing lessons that have shaped and point him, in high society to assoil the adoption he subsequently strives for from his former c bers and rum counterparts of the Amish friendship. rule book also faces the riveting predicament to assert or deny his disreputable hit the hay with Rachel as well as call for where he truly belongs.Weirs movie is positi aced amid two homos the good and the evil, decency and decadency, flip and heart, the Amish and the English. Throughout the lease, the complexities of parallel worlds be explored where the diverse worlds begin to sporadically intertwine. We insufficiency no topic to do with your laws, at the outset of the film when Rachel first becomes subj ect to tec John records quizzical and police procedures, she is taken out of her powderpuff zone and is presented with a world she get laids not of.Rachel is much so goaded by the forceful nature of her decl are predecessors and elders which intuitively campaigns to her attitude of not wanting to patronise by the laws of a different world from her witness. The passiveness of the Amish is explored as they are represent as be self-cast as outsiders, basing their lives but on natural things due to their own stringent belief that it will bring them closer to God.Furthermore, the audience is able to ready an insight to the cultural restrictions in which the Amish live by keep in a rural society where there are no radios, telephones, or televisions, where the just kernel of transportation is a horse and buggy, and where one dresses to look plain. The depiction of the Amish community in the film is extraordinarily contrasted with the advance(a) coeval society of the Ame ricans, otherwise known as the English by the Amish mess. s besidesl ups world is portrayed as existence the human function of corruption where somewhere along the way cops lose their meaning. take for is inevitably accustomed to deceit, brutality and madness that it consumes him and is the very essence in which drives him front and acts accountable for his actions. He is inescapably encircled by it, so much so that he is not only unaware to the corruption occurring within the very shaping that is meant to oppose it, his own police department. adjudges duty to investigate corruption within his police department leaves him shot.This emphasis from contains own world and place of belonging is what ironically leads to him press release into hiding amongst the Amish people in order for him to protect Rachel and Samuel. He is satisfyingly driven by his job of policing that it acts as a powerful force in his life in which he is suited to, Elaine thinks you same(p) policing because you think you are right approximately everything and youre the only one who can do anything Evidently, watchword is quite complacent living his own life in his coetaneous society as it composes of his identity and sense of belonging.At a further contrast, the modern society of the Americans deem to be perfectly dependant on technology, not except as helpful in any casels but also for ones own sense of luxury. In the film, when Book is in town with Eli accompanied by other Amish they are ambushed by tourists who plainly treat them as though they are placed there for their own amusement, the Amish are not acknowledged as being actual human beings. The tourists bombard them with taking photos and Book does not follow the collected way of the Amish, Lady, you take my picture with that thing and Im gonna rip your brassiere off nd strangle you with it You got that? though Book attempts to adjust to the ways of the Amish he is still so accustomed to his old ways that whe re he comes from is his own sense of belonging. Furthermore, Books trial of fitting in with the Amish is at last tested when he cannot rid himself of his urban assertiveness and simply turns to violence when a group of townies harass Daniel Hochleitner, of the Amish, to which Book violently punches one of them in the face though its not our way of the Amish. Book is fundamentally fixed in his ways, its my way, and initially disregards his attempts to fit in with the Amish and gain their acceptance. Consequently, Books violent actions lead to Schaeffer and his despicable partners being able to post and track down where Book is staying in hiding. Though Book has sufficiently failed in his attempts to conform to the ways of the Amish, it is evident that he finally makes a joining with the Amish community during the traditional barn-raising scene in the film where Book helps out and realises that for the Amish, community is more important than any other modern necessity. disrespect B ooks connection with the Amish he is still mildly mark as an outsider to their community and is only truly accepted through the eye of Rachel. During the course of the film, Book and Rachel begin to maturate affectionate for one another. The attraction between the two only grows stronger as the film progresses and Weir uses intended camera angles and film techniques to represent a change in the shape quo. When Book and Rachel are together, they are ever so filmed through doorways. Book is pictured as always being in the doorway, symbolising that he cannot get bygone it whereas Rachel is always in through it.However, as the attraction grows stronger, specifically after they kiss, Book talks to Rachel through the door of cowardly wire, the holes in the wire imply that Book can now get through to the Amish community yet some of his own identity and predispositions will always sojourn behind the chicken wire. More so the attraction is shown within the scene in the barn in which B ook is obsession his car with his radio on, an ultimate insubordination of the ways of the Amish, to which Rachel responds positively.They begin to dance and although Book appreciates the moment, he does not fully understand that he is breaching the wishes of the elders in the community and ominously causes Rachel to act in such a manner which is stupendously frowned upon by her peers. Despite Elis warning that she will be shunned if she becomes too close to John, Rachel defiantly gives in to her feelings for the outsider. Though they come from two different worlds, hold different values, nd live different lives, their emotions and feelings towards one another prove to be the same. Eventually Book comes to terms with his limitations and realises that he does not belong in Lancaster County with Rachel disrespect his utmost attempts to hear and change himself in order to belong. Book remains too dependant on things from his world and his reliance on technology bounds him. The lif e lessons and fixed ways in which Book continuously holds onto prove to a epic part of his identity that to completely disregard them would be a vital sacrifice.His attempts to try and belong with the Amish are boldly spoil by his own understanding of his significant influence on young Samuel, I would only kill the bad man. His very presence brings danger and the aspect of life in which the Amish try to avoid, that is, murder. The place in which one comes from, ones rest home and upbringing, proves to be a powerful force in ones life. Having a place to belong is essential to identity and life lessons taught prove to be counsellor throughout life.It is essential to belong and people will try and change themselves in order to feel as though they fit in. However, to merge two completely different worlds together would be polemical and ultimately unprincipled. The love shared between Book and Rachel would never work because they were two different, they were bestowed with differen t values, different upbringings and essentially different morals. Book could never stay with the Amish, Hes exit back to his world, where he belongs. He knows it, and you know it, too.