Witness‚ directed by Peter Weir is an American film which combines a crime story with a love story‚ creating a dual narrative. The Amish element complicates the genres‚ which makes them both familiar and new. Good morning Mrs Goundar and fellow students. Peter Weir draws the audience into the world of film through various techniques to explore the clash of two worlds and forbidden love. Peter Weir has effectively conveyed the theme of clash of cultures by showing the power of loyalty within the
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Forbidden love can travel all the way back to Shakespeare and not just our daily lives in 2018. The three loves stories of Hermia and Lysander‚ Titania and Bottom and Pyramus and Thisbe shows the reader that love is not always a given and sometimes you have to fight for it. In A Midsummer night dream‚ William Shakespeare shows us ways that something can get in the way of love. The first couple that falls in love is‚ Hermia and Lysander‚ even though something is stopping them they still fight
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A desired but‚ forbidden love. Montagues and Capulets cannot coexist. Leaving Romeo and Juliet in pure misery. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare‚ we are placed in medieval Verona‚ Italy. Where these families can’t bare to see one another‚ however‚ their children have fallen deeply in love. A secret they must keep‚ for disaster will erupt if anyone finds out. Tragedy is knocking at the door‚ and will soon enter. Romeo and Juliet cannot be blamed for they feel loved for once. Something their
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Hey Juliet Romeo and Juliet is considered one of the greatest love stories of all time. This story of forbidden love is irresistible to audiences and defies the passage of time. Although this Shakespeare classic is essentially about the budding romance between two young lovers‚ it is also very much a coming of age story about protagonist‚ Juliet Capulet. She begins the play naïvely following the wishes of her father. Over a short period of time‚ as the play progresses‚ she asserts herself as an
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‘WITNESS’ ANALYSIS The film “Witness”‚ directed by Peter Weir‚ is about the traditional Amish life versus the violent ways of the Western World. The film begins when an Amish boy named Samuel Lapp witnesses the murder of a policeman‚ and when detective John Book discovers it was an ‘inside job’ he gets shot and takes Samuel and his mother Rachel back to their Amish community. While nursing the bullet wound he stays with them for a week and learns the Amish way of life. He is not comfortable at first
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The play ’Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare‚ presents the theme of fate and the consequences of forbidden love. throughout the play‚ it had appeared that the families of these young lovers despise each other‚ due to a feud that started many years before. No one understood the reason for this hatred‚ but they wish to continue what was started. the whole play revolves around the concept of fate‚ and Shakespeare makes his audience aware of this during the prologue when it was stated‚ ’a pair
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what is a distinctive idea explored in Witness? Explain how this idea is developed throughout the text? “Distinctive ideas are at heart of every play or film”. The notion of distinctive ideas being at the heart of every play or film is certainly evident in the film Witness‚ composed by Peter Weir. Weir successfully conveys many themes and issues throughout his film. His film comprises several ideas‚ each highly significant. One idea explored in Witness is the “clash of two cultures”: the insular
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Lozano‚ Amber ELA HP‚ Period 5 March 26‚ 2012 Forbidden Love Essay Love is something powerful that two people can share with one another. At times this love can exist for a period of time but one person can lose the feeling‚ while the other keeps their heart saved for that person as in Love In The Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall much in love in their youth; Fermina eventually leaves Florentino to marry a wealthy doctor‚ leaving
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The "Truman show" an innovative‚ courageous film directed by Peter Weir is distinctively not a film about Truman Burbank. Although he may be the main protagonist of the film‚ theoretically he doesn’t exist‚ and is only there to bring out the main theme of the text. As an actual fact‚ this film is about our society as many of the themes that are conveyed throughout the film can be described as being based around our society such as technological influences and social and psychological behaviour.
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In his film witness peter weir criticizes aspects of modern society by contrasting it to the world of the Amish. Discuss the statement with close reference to the film The film Witness‚ directed by Peter Weir portrays the concept of cultural differences between the Amish and the outside world. Critical aspects of modern society (American society) are shown in various film techniques. Weir demonstrates aspects of the close study of text by using symbols‚ characterization‚ setting and diegetic
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