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Witness (1985)
In director Peter Weir's love story and meditation
on violence and culture clash:
- the film's opening scene of a brutal murder in
a Philadelphia train station restroom witnessed by young Amish
boy Samuel Lapp (Lukas Haas)
- the Amish community's barn-raising scene
- the scene of young recently-widowed Amish woman
Rachel Lapp's (Kelly McGillis) treatment of homicide detective John
Book's (Oscar-nominated Harrison Ford) gunshot wound
- the smoldering, forbidden love relationship between
Book and Rachel displayed in their informal, awkward serenade in
the farm's barn (to the tune of a car radio playing Sam Cooke's "(What
A) Wonderful World") - and lit by the car's headlights
- the scene in which an unembarrassed Rachel gave herself
a sponge-bath and boldly turned to reveal her bare-breasted self
to John, soon followed by their strongly passionate kiss in the twilight
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