Witness Reaction to Film

I really enjoyed this movie very much because it was the almost first action and thriller movie between we watched in the last semester. I like this story and inversion at the middle of this movie. Even though it is a nineteen eighty’s movie but it was awesome, something like their expression, and acting. I could learn the American’s life in the past twenty years. I wish watch a movie which is similar one in the next time.

Witness Relation to Case Study

This movie is related on Chapter 12 which is Dita story. The main character of Witness is the policeman John. He is a normal American. He felt culture shock from Amish people. There are lots of different things were different between them. Even though, they are living in the same country, because of tribe culture, he felt culture shock. In the Dita case, she is from Indonesia and she also felt culture shock. In my opinion, whoever, even who you are, if you are lived in the different culture and environment, then will feel culture shock.

Witness Summary and Analysis

The main character of this movie is a policeman, a mother and a boy. The boy’s name is Samuel, the policeman’s name is John and the mother’s name is Rachel. Samuel and Rachel went to Philadelphia to go to travel. They were waiting for the train. During the waiting Samuel went to rest room. At rest room, he saw a situation that two person were killing a man. So Samuel became only one person who saw the situation of the case. John asked him several things about them. John tried to find them with Samuel for several days. But they could not find them. One day, Samuel saw the picture which is the policeman picture collection and said “he is him.” But the boss of the police office and lots of policeman were same side with the murderer. The policemen were trying to kill them. They escape to a place where Amish living. John and they were lived together and helped them. He felt culture shock between Amish people and normal American. Finally, policemen were found them and trying to kill them. But, John saves them and John left the place.

Evaluation of Their acting

I am going to evaluate the No. B’s acting. I think, they did well but, there has several problems. Someone acted extra one (not necessary character). That is made me confused. Also, they act with script out. It is very obviously thing but, I mean, they did a good job. That was almost extemporaneous speaking. Therefore, some of parts were not perfect and not smooth. I feel sad about that. Also, the other problem is their decision. The three decisions were very unfair and not advantage to the main character that have the problem with her roommate. The only one thing that I remember is go back to your country. It is too extreme decision. Then, if I have a same problem with the acting, it means, just bear the entire problem and annoying things until my roommate going out? Or just let me go back to my country? It is not a good decision. The decisions were made me angry. If the team is changed their decision, then the acting was more perfect and nice.

Compare Dita and Masika Z. Smith

I am going to compare the case of adjust in the United States which is Dita story and Masika Z. Smith story. There are a lot of similarity and differences. First of all, I will talk about the differences about two cases. They are come from different places. Dita is come from Indonesia and Masika is come from Democratic Republic of Congo in Central Africa. Their period of living in USA also different, Masika have living in the United States for seven years. And Dita have living in the United States only for one semester. Moreover, Masika was married with a white man. But, Dita is only a student. That means, Masika has a family in the United States. Actually, she made her family in the United States. But Dita has no family in the United States. She is alone. Obviously she did not marry. There has a difference of them about their place where they live in the United States. Masika is West Texas. And Dita is Boston for studying. Masika came to the United States for a bachelor's degree in psychology from a small liberal arts college in West Texas. And Dita had been awarded a full scholarship by the Indonesian government to attend college in the United States. According to Masika’s talking with counselor and she began believing in her ability and herself. She had a passion to study her own and her work. But Dita was not. Because of her feeling of tired and hard, she still got a low grades on her quizzes, tests, and her essay with talking with her professor or discussion out. It means, Dita had not her passion to study very hard at the college.

But, there has also lots of similarity on both of them. First of all, they both are international student. Actually, they are not Native American. Therefore they do not have the perfect English skill yet. And they are women. There are a lot of similarity between their feeling of adjust and adapt to the United States. They both were felt it is not suitable and appropriate about them and their culture. Such as they were had problem about foods, weather, and no friends in there. That mean is they were lonely. They were also had a problem on communicate with their friends, professor, and roommate. I think they actually did not enjoy and love about living in the United States. Obviously, they both were felt about culture shock during the move to the United States. Feelings related with this phase included shock, scare, disappointment, anger and confusion. And they were hard to understand their class. They had conversation with counselor for get some suggestions about how to adjust better to the United States. But the results were not very good. They are hoping to change their life better adjust in the United States. From the starting to the ending, they always carry, worry about their America life. And also think about what is the problem on them.