Created several years after the dissolution of the Hays Code, Witness reads as a commentary on the increasingly violent and sexual state of film. The film is set in two drastically different communities: the peaceful, pious country of the Amish and the violent, abrasive city of modern America. As such, the Amish perspective in the film works as a…[Read more]

I agree that we as viewers tend to sympathize with Edward’s son as he dismisses the validity of his father’s stories. I would argue, however, that this connection to Will is both an intentional and successful tactic used by the writers and director of Big Fish to call attention to what Campbell would say is evidence of our modern cynicism. In…[Read more]