From: "Luigi Donatello Asero said:
In Witness, probably the best film ever made, John Book, a
Pennsylvanian homicide detective, played by Harrison Ford is
walking behind the Amish woman Rachel and her son down a
corridor in the police station before the fabulous scene where
Samual, the boy, the witness, points out the killer in a
photograph. Rachel, who is to fall in love with Book later on,
remarks that she is not keen on her son spending too much time
with a man who goes around "whacking people" (meaning roughing
them up etc, there was a prior incident). Book is most bemused
and walks on, saying to himself in low voice, a couple of times:
"Whacking? Whacking!". Later, in a nice scene at the farm where he
is recovering from a wound and making a toy for Samual, she
brings him a glass of lemon squash, he stops sawing for a
moment, she looks at him wide eyed and says sweetly: "Oh, I
didn't know you knew carpentry?. Can you do anything else? (on a
farm)" He stops and looks at her and says with the faintest of
smiles, "I'm hell of a good at whacking!" And she, the tension
slightly dropping, remarks that "Whacking is not much good on a
farm"...
dorayme
