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How does the film 'Witness' show the clash between Amish and modern American culture.
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How does the film 'Witness' show the clash between Amish and modern American culture. The film Witness is about corruption in the police force, the merging and conflict of cultures and romance between two culturally different people. Witness contains many moral issues, which include, murder, cultural awareness, and religion. The Amish way of life is very simple; they wear simple clothes, use simple farming and building methods and they have no electricity. There is also an overwhelming sense of community. The contrast between this Amish culture and that of modern America is important to the film because it makes all the evil things the Americans do look so much worse when compared to the Amish. It also shows that the two cultures are mutually exclusive. This film is targeted at everyone, as it was designed to entertain, but only the more able viewer will understand the symbolism, as it is...
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