![]() ![]() The $40 USD price was a point of contention, as it rivaled some console games and made The Witness one of the most expensive indie video games of all time, if not the most.Now, imagine watching the scene without said context, and you'll end the video asking yourself "What have I just watched?" The scene already qualifies as a Gainax Ending even taken on the context of the whole movie. This clip is the end of the 1983 movie Nostalghia by Andrei Tarkovsky, known for his dry, difficult style and highly metaphysical themes. It's a 12-minute-long video of a man holding a candle. ![]() The game already contains many audio logs and other videos with philosophical and spiritual quotes and teachings, but this video goes one step further. Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The third windmill video.The Witnesses is now streaming at SBS On Demand. ![]() But will it be one based on truth or fiction, success or failure? We know from the very start of the series that Braun will come away haunted by a cruel memory. But it’s always a two-way conversation despite all her knowledge, she can be just as vulnerable to slip-ups and mistakes, especially when she’s dealing with people with something to hide – or who think they know better.Īll the while the clock is ticking, with a young girl’s life at stake. Sometimes it’s a casual chat that opens the door, revealing something about herself to get them onside. She has to gain their trust, get them to open up. If they even want to tell her the truth in the first place. Braun has to tread carefully, knowing that a leading question or false assumption could inspire her subject to unconsciously tell her what they think she wants to hear, destroying the memories of what really took place. These interrogations aren’t exactly the traditional battle of wills. Braun quickly discovers that there’s more to her backstory than meets the eye – and perhaps more importantly, she learns that if she leaves this case to the police, their own prejudices and assumptions will lead them down the wrong path, wasting valuable time. The first witness is Emma’s Colombian nanny Carla (Nilam Farooq), who left the child alone for a few minutes. It’s safe to say that while chief Robert Dietz (Ralph Herforth) and detective Nadine Schröder (Ceci Chuh) need her help, they don’t exactly welcome her with open arms.Įach of The Witnesses’ eight half-hour episodes focuses on one of the witnesses, with almost all the series set in the library of the Natural History Museum, which has been converted into an interview room. She’s not exactly on the good side of the local police either, after an opening courtroom prologue where she trashed the credibility of their case in a major crime prosecution. She’s about to be dropped into a whole new world, where her theories will be put to the test like never before. The twist is that while Braun is an expert on memory – so much so that Emma’s father asked for her involvement directly – her work is largely theoretical: her entire process is built around working with transcripts, not people (“any personal questioning will falsify the result”). The more they can tell her, the sooner Emma will be back with her family… or at least, that’s the plan. Her job is to interrogate the eight witnesses who were close by at the time of the kidnapping. Emma is diabetic and without her insulin she’ll rapidly fall into a coma and die.įortunately, the police have a not-so-secret weapon on their side in the form of forensic psychologist Dr Jasmin Braun (Alexandra Maria Lara). The police swing into action with no time to spare. This wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment crime: the kidnappers set off a smoke bomb as a distraction. Emma Konrad, the ten-year-old daughter of the Interior Minister of Berlin, has been abducted from the Natural History Museum. ![]()
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