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From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
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Subject: Re: WITNESS (spoiler)
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Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 13:05:29 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 10 13:05:29 1985
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> But I too am bothered by the inclusion of the "tit shot".  This had
> nothing to do with the story and the behavior was totally out of
> character for both Rachel and John.  It was included strictly to get
> the coveted "R" rating.
> 
 
Odd; my reaction to the lady's nakedness was completely different than either of
yours.  It seemed to me that Rachel was doing (for her) a completely
ordinary thing: she was taking a bath.   The naughty person was John Book,
who was indulging in a little voyeurism.  That long look she gave
him after seeing him I interpreted as disbelief mixed with passion.
 
IN any case, Witness gets full points for me for simply *NOT* having the
"High Noon" approach to pacifism:  it's all very well, but when the
chips are down, a woman's gotta kill somebody to prove she's a man.
In killing the three evil policemen, Book put himself irrevocably outside
Amish society, and Weir didn't pussyfoot around that fact.
The exploitation (if such it was) of Rachel's nudity was *nothing* 
compared to the exploitation he could have made of the child and the gun.
That would have been true violence to Amish traditions.
 
Betsy Perry
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