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ness to the scream :
The Witness ( 2016 )
By Jerry Saravia , Pseudo Film Critic
38 witnesses in an apartment complex claimed they saw and / or heard a woman screaming in agony after just suffering the first of two stabbings in the street below . Nobody did anything ,
nobody called police . This became a moral lesson for an adage that is now spoken and distributed ubiquitously : If you see something , say something . In the case of Kitty Genovese , a young 28-year-old woman who was brutally stabbed outside of her apartment in Kew Gardens , NY back in 1964 , if you hear something , say something . In the entrancingly disturbing , emotionally draining and very moving documentary , “ The Witness ,” people did in fact hear her screeching screams of help yet , allegedly , nobody saw her . What is most revealing is that witnesses did in fact call the police and someone did help her during her last remaining moments she had left . This is the first of many disclosed truths that were ignored at the time .
Kitty Genovese , a famous picture that was in actuality a mug shot
Told from the point-of-view of Kitty ’ s youngest brother , Bill Genovese ( a Vietnam veteran ),“ The Witness ” is a full-throttle attempt to find out the truth , the whole concealed truth of Kitty ’ s murder . Bill Genovese takes on the obsessive and difficult task of finding the truth to a 50-year-old murder . He is a double amputee riding around in his wheelchair , sometimes at the crime scene and often visiting those who bore witness to the crime during the aftermath ( many other witnesses have long passed ). It is the work of a top-notch sleuth -- he even goes so far as to interview “ 60 Minutes ” own Mike Wallace ( who did a piece on it back in the day ), Abe Rosenthal , former New York Times editor ( who helped to craft the alleged myth of witnesses ’
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