Peter Basco, The Witness (Hungary, 1968)
The Witness by Peter Bacso was like a circle that goes around and around with out ending or stopping of Jozwf Pelikan was going in and out of the jail to the point where it became unbelievable. The first reason he went to the jail because he had an pig in his home. He had eight children and could not feed them, only from that pig. IT was obvious that the communist party. He went to the jail, but then leaves immediately without any thing illegally running against him. Even the pig, there was not a pig. After that he was picked to other things by the Comrade Virag to so other things, but he use to misbehave always which made him goes back to the jail over and over.
The film was banded for too many years. Basco picked his movie in an ironic way of symbolizing the communist party. He showed how life was filled with corruption under that party. People do not even have the right to eat what ever they want and when ever they want. It showed how the communist was like an old cage that locked the birds inside it under the name of justice.
The most interesting part to me was the little boy. When the police came to see if there was a pig inside the home, the little boy laid. It was amazing how he said they do not have a pig. Why would a little boy lie, if everything was right. Even the little boy had a feeling that was not the right way of living, so he had to lie in order to survive in this dark life.
