WATCH ALONG: Witness

I remember watching this with my dad, who is a veteran and big fan of guns, and he told me that when Eli makes the fist gesture at Samuel near the end, he thought Eli was telling the kid to get Book's gun. (The gun of the hand gesture was the same, after all). It never occurred to him that there might be, as Eli said, more than one way to protect themselves. It really broke my dad's brain that there was a solution available in the community that didn't require violence, one he hadn't even considered, and he was very quiet about it for quite some time. I think that's the beauty of that scene: to ask the audience to question what their instinct was in that moment and why and whether that's an instinct they want to preserve or try to move on from.

Oh thank goodness you loved this one. It's one of my all time favorite Harrison Ford movies. So, so good. I love the way Harrison and Kelly McGillis convey so much with just these aching, yearning looks to one another.

This has always been one of my favorite Harrison Ford movies. And one of the few movies with Danny Glover that I have seen. (That’s a story for another day.) I don’t know if you recognized a young Viggo Mortensen (he played Aragorn in LotR). He was one of the Amish. Such an amazing movie, in my opinion.

Bye, Beans!