![]() Harrison Ford has never given a better performance in a movie. But all three elements work together so well that something organic is happening here we're inside this story. The ways of life in the Amish community are so well observed that they have a documentary feel. The love story by itself would be exciting. It is masterful filmmaking, The thriller elements alone would command our attention. In the whole middle section of this movie, he shows the man from the city and the simple Amish women within the context of the Amish community. "Witness" was directed by Peter Weir, the gifted Australian director of " The Year of Living Dangerously." He has a strong and sure feeling for places, for the land, for the way that people build their self-regard by the way they do their work. It's about two independent, complicated people who begin to love each other because they have shared danger, they work well together, they respect each other - and because their physical attraction for each other is so strong it almost becomes another character in the movie. It's not one of those romances where the man and woman fall into each other's arms because their hormones are programmed that way. Now it turns into an intelligent and perceptive love story. Up until the return to Pennsylvania, "Witness" has been a slick, superior thriller. He manages to drive them all back to the Amish lands of Pennsylvania before collapsing from loss of blood.Īnd it's at this point, really, that the movie begins. His life and the lives of the widow and her son are in immediate danger. Then it turns out that the police department itself is implicated in the killing. He stages lineups hoping the kid can spot the murderer. Harrison Ford plays the tough big city detective who gets assigned to the case. In the train station in Philadelphia, the little boy witnesses a murder. His widow and young son leave on a train journey. I’ll just follow all their rules and then I can call myself a world record holder.An Amish man dies. “But lots of documentation, lots of witnesses. “I got out of having an official timekeeper necessary because it’s over 18 days,” explained Dubeau. I could have paid $10,000 if I wanted to hear back in a week.”ĭubeau says it took four months for him to hear back from the Guinness people and part of the process will be providing witness statements to be signed and video to be taken two minutes of every hour. “I had to submit the record and had to wait a very long time because I didn’t have a lot of money to get it reviewed quickly. Let us know when you’re done.'”ĭubeau says a patient approach was also required. Sounds like a good record we’ll put it in our book. ![]() I applied to Guinness and they said, ‘Yeah, sure. “The schedule worked out pretty well where I could see them quickly this year. ![]() “I caught an Alouettes game there, the Redblacks played the next day, and I thought, ‘Oh,’ and wondered if I could see all nine of them next year,” recalled Dubeau. And interestingly enough, the inspiration for taking a stab at this Guinness World Record was a result of being stranded in Montreal last year because of hurricane Fiona when Dubeau was trying to travel to Nova Scotia. Dubeau says planes, trains and automobiles are all options if something goes awry with his flight schedule. ![]()
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