question about the last shot...
why did the car stop at the end and then continue going? i know he didn't stop to talk to the blonde guy... that was kinda weird.
shareIt was to say goodbye to Gudonov's character. You can see the car stop and Gudonov stops for a moment. Then they continue on their marry ways.
Have you ever danced with a chicken in the pale moon light?
but he stopped like way off from where he was. the blonde guy stops and looks back but i don't see him say anything or wave... (shrugs)
shareI'm pretty sure the car stops next to Gudonov. The shot is from afar, so it can be kind of hard to see, but that's what it looks like to me.
Have you ever danced with a chicken in the pale moon light?
They stop and talk. There was no animostity between them...a bit of jealousy, perhaps, but in the end the best man for Rachel will be Gudonov. I'm still not 100% sure or not if Book had sex with Rachel, though.
sharehe did'nt have sex with her, cos there was a scence were they talk about it and he or she sed they cudnt because of the contrast of their lives etc. im doing it in film studies so iv watched it to manytimes believe me
shareBad news Tim - I took from the film that after the embrace in the film by the birdhouse, there was a strong implication they made love. Just found the original script and that's what it says happens.
http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Witness.html
The light now nearly gone, the NIGHT SOUNDS beginning, as
Rachel reaches Book and they embrace.
EXT. FIELD BY ROAD – NIGHT
Book and Rachel in a passionate embrace, sink to the still
warm earth and make love.
I appreciate the script and film are divergent but I think the implication was definitely still there in the film. Would be interested to know what your film studies teacher's thoughts on the matter were.
I finally watched this movie for the first time last night. No, they did NOT have sex. To say they did is REALLY a stretch and reading WAY too much into things. They looked at each other when she was in the shower...and later he told her that the look was so intense that it was the same as making love. But they never actually hopped in the sack, that's ridiculous LOL.
As for the last scene, he simply did what anyone would do. He slowed down and waved/said goodbye. Simple as that.
You're not even talking about the same scene. He's talking about the scene outside, near the birdhouse. AFTER the scenes you mentioned.
shareRachel is taking a sponge bath, not a shower. Some Amish homes don't have indoor plumbing. Others have an indoor toilet and/or a tub, but not a shower, which isn't considered plain.
Rachel and Book DO make love, not on the night he sees her taking her bath, but on the night before the dirty cops raid the farm. The sequence: Rachel watches Book mend the birdhouse. Eli tells Rachel that Book is leaving in the morning. She asks why, what does he have to go back to; Eli replies that Book is going back to the English world where he belongs: "He knows it, and you know it."
Rachel goes to her bedroom, ponders her next move--and takes off her white bonnet. The only time Amish women don't wear their bonnets is in bed. She goes to find Book, who sees her coming and notices she's not wearing her bonnet. They fling themselves into each other's arms and start kissing passionately. They sink into the tall grass around the birdhouse and the camera cuts away. That's movie shorthand for sex.